Humans shown in their relationships with their pet animals, including a man trying to teach his crow the principles of language and children snail racing.

Learning about Language: An In-Class Activity

A scholar of the medical humanities shares ideas for helping students discover how language shaped past cultural attitudes—and still shapes them in the present.
Blue-stained serpentine Neotyphodium coenophialum mycelia inhabiting the intercellular spaces of tall fescue leaf sheath tissue. Magnified 400x.

Better Farming Through Endophytes

Scientists look to “probiotics” for crops as a new green revolution in agriculture.
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The Age of Wonder Meets the Age of Information

What can past eras of information overload teach students about critically consuming content in the present?
An advertising poster for Brauerei Hölle (Hell Brewery), Radolfzell

What is a Symbol?

A symbol can be any object, character, color, or even shape that represents an abstract concept without explanatory text. But wait, there's more!
Krao Farini, c. 1890

Finding Krao Farini

Public discourse on the bearded lady, a staple of circus sideshow, revealed the racial biases underpinning Darwinian theory.