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.
Better Farming Through Endophytes
Scientists look to “probiotics” for crops as a new green revolution in agriculture.
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?
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!
Finding Krao Farini
Public discourse on the bearded lady, a staple of circus sideshow, revealed the racial biases underpinning Darwinian theory.