The Conversation: Friendship, a Covenant, Romance – No Matter What You Call It, David’s Love for Jonathan Is One of the Bible’s Most Beautiful
The Bible often shares stories of love and friendship.
The Conversation: On Bodhi Day, Buddhists Commemorate Siddhartha Gautama’s Enlightenment by Lighting Lamps to Combat Darkness
Buddhists throughout the world celebrate Bodhi Day, but they do not all celebrate Siddhartha’s enlightenment on the same day.
The Conversation: This Course Uses Crime Novels to Teach Critical Thinking
The goals of the course are to teach students the importance of reading critically and share the importance of historical and social context.
The Conversation: Why Returning the Name Kuwohi to the Great Smoky Mountains Matters
The success of the effort to restore the name Kuwohi may help other communities in their ongoing place renaming efforts.
The Conversation: Socially Distanced Layout of the World’s Oldest Cities Helped Early Civilization Evade Diseases
Archaeologists often explain what we call urban collapse in terms of climate change, overpopulation, social pressures or some combination of these. But scientists have added a new hypothesis to the mix: disease.
The Conversation: Studying Science Fiction Films Can Help Students Understand the Power Societies Have to Shape Our Lives
The goal of this course is to help students understand that societies are more than groups of people. Societies are alive and try to survive on their own terms and are sometimes at odds with the interests of the people who live in them.
The Conversation: Bees Have Irrational Biases When Choosing Which Flowers To Feed on − Just Like Human Shoppers
Studies show bees and other pollinators make the same kinds of irrational “shopping” decisions humans make.
The Conversation: A Video Game Based on the Chinese Novel ‘Journey to the West’ is the Most Recent Example of Innovative Retelling of this Popular Story
The popularity of Black Myth: Wukong is the most recent example in a centuries-old tradition of retelling this story through popular media.
The Conversation: Who Is the Laughing Buddha? A Scholar of East Asian Buddhism Explains
The Laughing Buddha’s transformation into a global icon results from both the fascination with Chinese porcelain in 18th-century Europe and the 20th-century spread of Japanese Zen Buddhism.
The Conversation: Offensive Names Dot the American Street Map − A New App Provides a Way to Track Them
The app allows users to conduct nationwide inventories of discriminatory roadway names, revealing how often and where they are found.
The Conversation Weekly Podcast: Sharing That Moment: Can Collective Experiences Bring People Closer Together?
Studies show that when people experience something together, it amplifies the experience.
The Conversation: Why I Turned the ‘Red Dead Redemption II’ Video Game into a History Class on America’s Violent Past
The course seeks to understand what really spurred bloodshed in the United States between 1865 and 1920.