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,…