In this interview, Yifan Guo, a second-year graduate student studying and teaching mathematics at Brown University, shares her thoughts on California’s push to make their math curriculum more “equitable.” Recently, California ended a years-long...
Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center and Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University, reviews depictions of epidemics in Twilight (2008), The Last of Us (2023), Outbreak (1995), and Contagion (2011), and discusses how they relate to real...
Oren Jacobson is a national civic leader, organizer, and reproductive health activist residing in Illinois. Jacobson is a co-founder and the executive director of Men4Choice, an organization founded in 2015 which works to educate male allies and mobi...
In 1995, Bai Junfeng tortured and then forcibly penetrated his wife Yao, leading her into a coma that nearly took her life. Yet the Yixian People’s Court ruled that Bai was innocent of rape on the grounds that violently forcing one’s wife to have...
In 1995, Bai Junfeng tortured and then forcibly penetrated his wife Yao, leading her into a coma that nearly took her life. Yet the Yixian People’s Court ruled that Bai was innocent of rape on the grounds that violently forcing one’s wife to have...
When you open your phone to send a GIF, what image surfaces in your mind? What media best encapsulates your feelings? For many people, the answer involves images of Black people. GIFs such as sipping with Wendy, the Nick Young Reaction, the Think Abo...
When you open your phone to send a GIF, what image surfaces in your mind? What media best encapsulates your feelings? For many people, the answer involves images of Black people. GIFs such as sipping with Wendy, the Nick Young Reaction, the Think Abo...
Pauline Jean is an internationally acclaimed Haitian American singer, songwriter, and composer who has performed everywhere from Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Concert Hall to Lincoln Center Shanghai. She graduated from St. John’s College with a Bachelors ...
Pauline Jean is an internationally acclaimed Haitian American singer, songwriter, and composer who has performed everywhere from Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Concert Hall to Lincoln Center Shanghai. She graduated from St. John’s College with a Bachelors ...
Copyslut is a band and artists’ collective who have been creating sex-magic, catharsis, and healing vibes since 2017. Also sex-positive sex educators, the band is led by Chatz of Love, an active sex-worker, and often offers sex-ed Q&As for audi...
Copyslut is a band and artists’ collective who have been creating sex-magic, catharsis, and healing vibes since 2017. Also sex-positive sex educators, the band is led by Chatz of Love, an active sex-worker, and often offers sex-ed Q&As for audi...
Anatomy of a nail salon: aromatic chemicals circulate in small rooms. Gleaming rows of nail polish bottles stretch in rainbows along the walls. Feet wade under warm gurgling water. While the nail salon might evoke to many an image of luxury and respi...
Anatomy of a nail salon: aromatic chemicals circulate in small rooms. Gleaming rows of nail polish bottles stretch in rainbows along the walls. Feet wade under warm gurgling water. While the nail salon might evoke to many an image of luxury and respi...
Norman Lear is a writer, producer, and political activist best known for sitcoms All in the Family, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, and Maude, among many others. In 1942 Lear dropped out of Emerson College to serve with the United States Army Air ...
Norman Lear is a writer, producer, and political activist best known for sitcoms All in the Family, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, and Maude, among many others. In 1942 Lear dropped out of Emerson College to serve with the United States Army Air ...
Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel, best known by his mononym Seal, is a singer and songwriter. Born in the United Kingdom and of Nigerian and Afro-Brazilian descent, Seal was raised by a foster family in Westminster, London until the age of f...
Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel, best known by his mononym Seal, is a singer and songwriter. Born in the United Kingdom and of Nigerian and Afro-Brazilian descent, Seal was raised by a foster family in Westminster, London until the age of f...
Larry Charles is a comedian, screenwriter, director, and producer whose directorial credits include Borat, Bruno, and The Dictator starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Religulous starring Bill Maher, Army of One starring Nicholas Cage and Russell Brand, and M...
Larry Charles is a comedian, screenwriter, director, and producer whose directorial credits include Borat, Bruno, and The Dictator starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Religulous starring Bill Maher, Army of One starring Nicholas Cage and Russell Brand, and M...
“Hey! We need more water! We need help!” Thousands of people, pressed against metal barricades, shouted similar cries at the Louisiana National Guard in the Superdome lockdown after Hurricane Katrina. Residents of Mid-City, the 9th Ward, an...
“Hey! We need more water! We need help!” Thousands of people, pressed against metal barricades, shouted similar cries at the Louisiana National Guard in the Superdome lockdown after Hurricane Katrina. Residents of Mid-City, the 9th Ward, an...
The divide in America today — which we constantly see, hear, feel, and fear — is illustrated and perpetuated in part through “PC culture”. PC (Politically Correct) culture refers to a trending social norm of being politically, socially, and e...
The divide in America today — which we constantly see, hear, feel, and fear — is illustrated and perpetuated in part through “PC culture”. PC (Politically Correct) culture refers to a trending social norm of being politically, socially, and e...
In recent years, the startling public health trend once dubbed “The Asthma Epidemic” has been tentatively leveling off. With fewer cases of asthma diagnosed overall relative to previous years, Americans seem to be breathing easier. But despite th...
In recent years, the startling public health trend once dubbed “The Asthma Epidemic” has been tentatively leveling off. With fewer cases of asthma diagnosed overall relative to previous years, Americans seem to be breathing easier. But despite th...
New York City’s public school system is the most racially segregated in the nation. Several mayoral administrations have sought to tackle this issue: Mayor Michael Bloomberg implemented programs based on school choice, with the intention of helping...
New York City’s public school system is the most racially segregated in the nation. Several mayoral administrations have sought to tackle this issue: Mayor Michael Bloomberg implemented programs based on school choice, with the intention of helping...