Category: USA
200-foot Radio Tower Disappears, Halting Alabama Station Broadcast
Scharon Harding in Ars Technica: A 200-foot AM radio tower has been missing for at…
Mir Imam: I Am Living Proof Of The American Dream
Mir Imran has a unique background in medicine and engineering, which became the foundation of…
Living Inside a Psyop: Three Months at Harvard
Walter Johnson in n + 1: People would later say that it began with the statement…
Carole Hooven: Why I Left Harvard
Carole Hooven in The Free Press: Since early December, the end of my 20-year career…
The Mathematician Who Finds Poetry in Math and Math in Poetry
Leila Sloman in Quanta Magazine: Sarah Hart has always had an eye for the covert ways…
Do Political Ads Even Matter Anymore?
By Nick Corasaniti in The New York Times: In a presidential election year, no glowing…
Isn’t There More Than Enough Wealth to Go Around?
by Oliver Waters: In last month’s column I criticized the ‘degrowth’ movement, which essentially proposes…
Social Costs of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Healthcare Industry are Astounding
…and we’ve been ignoring them completely David Introcaso writes in The Hill: The social cost…
How One Police Officer Solved Eight Cold Cases in His Spare Time
‘Badass Detective’: Matt Hutchinson is a curious and determined Bay Area detective with a knack…
Why Incentives to Attract Doctors to Rural Areas Haven’t Worked
Arjun Sharma in Undark: IN THE 1960s and 1970s, researchers offered financial incentives to patients to get…
Americans Are Not As Poor As They Think They Are
by Thomas R. Wells: Americans dominate global (social) media and one result of this is…
Break Every Chain: How Black Plaintiffs in the South Sought Justice
Max Krupnick in Harvard Magazine: MOST AMERICAN SCHOOLCHILDREN learn about one Southern bus ride—on December 1,…