The Conversation: From ‘Frankenstein’ to ‘Dracula,’ Exploring the Dark World of Death and the Undead Offers a Reminder of Our Mortality
For centuries, death has been a topic of fascination for authors and readers alike.
The Conversation: Are High School Sports Living Up to Their Ideals?
What do high school sports aspire to be, and what actually happens on the ground?
The Conversation: World Maps Get Africa’s Size Wrong: Cartographers Explain Why Fixing It Matters
Flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole, under-representing the size of much of South America and Africa.
The Conversation: Who Was the First Pirate?
Pirates have been around for as long as people have moved things by boat.
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.