What Does ‘Smart’ Even Mean? It seems like an obvious question. If you’re technically minded, you might have a preferred definition of intelligence. ‘The ability…
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When someone writes a hit movie or a best seller, it’s easy to think it all resulted from a stroke of creative genius and it…
The rising cost of living is biting businesses and households around the world. Editors from across The Conversation’s international network have asked local academic experts…
This week, the National Football League (NFL) owners conducted their annual fall meeting. Not on the written agenda was the question of what to do…
Every year around the middle of October, reporters start contacting me wanting to talk about rumors of contaminated Halloween treats. That’s because I track media…
The gig economy provides no safety net for its workers, but some activists are hoping to change that. Alyssa Lewis lost her 26-year-old sister, Bella…
It’s rare to attend an outdoor party in warm weather without hearing people complain about mosquitoes. They swat away, sit in campfire smoke, cover up…
What do Batgirl, L.E.G.I.O.N., Superman, Batman, Azrael, JLA, Barry Allen and Hal Jordan, Titans, Avengers/Thunderbolts and Empire have in common? Artist extraordinaire Barry Kitson, that’s…
In most cases, fraternity houses in the movies are fictitious and are not anything like a real fraternity is ran. In some cases this is…
The Uvalde and Buffalo mass shootings in May 2022 had at least two things in common: The shooters were 18 years old, and they had…