The Conversation: Video Games Teach Students in This Class How Religion Works in the Modern World
Many popular video games draw from the mythologies and heroic narratives of the world’s religious traditions.
The Conversation: How Does a Person Become Famous When They’re Just a Kid?
Being a famous kid can offer a lot of benefits, but it can also have downsides.
The Conversation: Russia’s Invasion United Different Parts of Ukraine Against a Common Enemy – Three Years On, that Unanimity Still Holds
Findings suggest that in times of collective threat, divisions within a society tend to fade as people come together to face a common enemy.
The Conversation: Buddha’s Foster Mother Played a Key Role in the Orphaned Prince’s Life — and Is a Model for Buddhists on Mother’s Day
The Buddha’s birth mother and foster mother played key roles in his life story and continue to inspire Buddhists today.
The Conversation Weekly Podcast: COVID Modeling Reveals New Insights into Ancient Social Distancing
The COVID pandemic has sparked new research into how disease may have affected ancient civilizations, and the clues this offers about a change in the way humans designed their villages and cities 8,000 years ago.
The Conversation: With Hooters on the Verge of Bankruptcy, a Psychologist Reflects on Her Time Spent Studying the Servers Who Work There
More so than most restaurants, managers at restaurants like Hooters seek to strictly regulate how their employees look and act.
The Conversation: From Greenland to Fort Bragg, America Is Caught in a Name Game Where Place Names Become Political Tools
Changing a place name can fundamentally shift how people view, relate to or feel that they belong within that place.
The Conversation: Museums Have Tons of Data, and AI Could Make It More Accessible — but Standardizing and Organizing It Across Fields Won’t Be Easy
Standardizing the types of metadata managers record and the ways they store it could make the items more accessible and usable.
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.