John Holden – Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, Oklahoma State University In a recent interview published in GQ, NBA star LaMelo Ball downplayed the importance of college for athletes who aspire…
Charles Bell – Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Sciences, Illinois State University When “Mike,” the father of a ninth grade student, got a call from his daughter’s school, the first…
Katelyn Jetelina – Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston A year and a half into what the World Health Organization officially declared a pandemic on March…
Lana Ruvolo Grasser – Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Research Fellow, Wayne State University A few years ago, framed by the skyline of Detroit, a group of about 15 children resettled…
Written by Seena Mathew – Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor It’s no secret that aerobic exercise can help stave off some of the ravages of aging. But a growing body of research suggests…
Written by Eurie Dahn – Associate Professor of English, The College of Saint Rose Using punctuation and capitalization as a form of protest doesn’t exactly scream radicalism. But in debates…
Written by Elizabeth Mkandawire and Melody Mentz-Coetzee The number of hungry people in the world grew by a staggering 161 million people in 2020 to 811 million. More than one third…
By Claire Sibonney Miché Aaron has always been a high achiever. The 29-year-old is in her third year of a planetary sciences doctoral program at Johns Hopkins University, where she…
The proliferation of child sexual abuse material on the internet is harrowing and sobering. Technology companies send tens of millions of reports per year of these images to the nonprofit…
When Jeanne Calment of France died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days, she set a record for oldest human. That record still stands. As statisticians who study demography, we…