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How Dorothea Tanning’s ‘Birthday’ painting challenged male-dominated surrealism

  • Written by Sally Jane Brown, Curator, West Virginia University
imageDo the seemingly endless doorways represent a woman trapped in domesticity or infinite ways out?Philadelphia Museum of Art

When American artist Dorothea Tanning painted “Birthday” in 1942, she announced her arrival – an artistic birth, as she later described it – into the surrealist movement.

Surrealism is an avant-garde art...

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Ending taxes on home sales would benefit the wealthiest households most – part of a larger pattern in Trump tax plans

  • Written by Beverly Moran, Professor Emerita of Law, Vanderbilt University

Not long after U.S. housing prices reached a record high this summer – the median existing home went for US$435,000 in June – President Donald Trump said that he was considering a plan to make home sales tax-free.

Supporters of the idea, introduced by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as the No Tax on Home Sales Act in July, say it would...

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A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil – what scientists and companies owe the Indigenous people they studied

  • Written by Ted Powers, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis
imageThe Rapa Nui people are mostly invisible in the origin story of rapamycin.Posnov/Moment via Getty Images

An antibiotic discovered on Easter Island in 1964 sparked a billion-dollar pharmaceutical success story. Yet the history told about this “miracle drug” has completely left out the people and politics that made its discovery possible.

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How to identify animal tracks, burrows and other signs of wildlife in your neighborhood

  • Written by Steven Sullivan, Director of the Hefner Museum of Natural History, Miami University
imageA paw print in baked mud at Joshua Tree National Park, likely from a coyote.Brad Sutton/National Park Service

Your neighborhood is home to all sorts of amazing animals, from racoons, squirrels and skunks to birds, bugs and snails. Even if you don’t see them, most of these creatures are leaving evidence of their activities all around you.

Paw...

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A staircase in a small, decorative arts museum tells a harrowing story of terror, abuse and enslavement

  • Written by Susanna Ashton, Professor of English, Clemson University
imageA monument to survival and perseverance has survived, by happenstance, to share its stories today. Courtesy of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) at Old Salem

From the ages of 12 to about 22, Harriet Jacobs lived under the watch of her enslaver, a wealthy physician named James Norcom Sr. During that decade, as Jacobs grew from a...

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Serbia’s Aleksandar Vučić clings to power – but protests highlight the danger of stubborn leadership

  • Written by Keith Brown, Professor of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University

In Serbia, there is a word for a form of stubbornness that sees someone act out of spite or defiance rather than yield to the will of others: “inat.”

It’s something Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić is showing remarkable levels of right now.

For almost a year, anti-government protests have roiled the Balkan nation. They...

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Why a study claiming vaccines cause chronic illness is severely flawed – a biostatistician explains the biases and unsupported conclusions

  • Written by Jeffrey Morris, Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
imageBiases in designing a study can weaken how well the evidence supports the conclusion.FatCamera/E+ via Getty Images

At a Senate hearing on Sept. 9, 2025, on the corruption of science, witnesses presented an unpublished study that made a big assertion.

They claimed that the study, soon to be featured in a highly publicized film called “An...

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Tibetan Buddhist nuns are getting advanced degrees − and the Dalai Lama played a major role in that shift

  • Written by Darcie Price-Wallace, Visiting Scholar in Religious Studies, Northwestern University
imageTibetan nuns study during the winter examination period at the Dolma Ling Nunnery in Dharamshala, India, in 2022.Rebecca Conway/Getty Images

In August 2025, 161 Tibetan Buddhist nuns from religious institutions across India and Nepal – a record number – gathered at the Dolma Ling Nunnery in northern India to take various levels of the...

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Charlie Kirk and the making of an AI-generated martyr

  • Written by Art Jipson, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Dayton
imageA makeshift memorial for Charlie Kirk outside the headquarters of Turning Point USA in Phoenix.Joe Raedle/Getty Images

An AI-generated image of Charlie Kirk embracing Jesus. Another of Kirk posing with angel wings and halo. Then there’s the one of Kirk standing with George Floyd at the gates of heaven.

When prominent political or cultural...

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  2. Why aren’t companies speeding up investment? A new theory offers an answer to an economic paradox
  3. Calling in the animal drug detectives − helping veterinarians help beluga whales, goats and all creatures big and small
  4. Bacteria attached to charcoal could help keep an infamous ‘forever chemical’ out of waterways
  5. A Bari Weiss-led CBS News would likely look different, but how the public feels about it might not change
  6. Trump’s dip into the Nile waters dispute didn’t settle the conflict – in fact, it may have caused more ripples
  7. Civil society helps uphold democracy and provides built-in resistance to authoritarianism
  8. What parents need to know about Tylenol, autism and the difference between finding a link and finding a cause in scientific research
  9. Even a brief government shutdown might hamper morale, raise costs and reduce long-term efficiency in the federal workforce
  10. Even a government shutdown that ends quickly would hamper morale, raise costs and reduce long-term efficiency in the federal workforce
  11. Religion often shapes someone’s view of abortion – but what about a woman’s actual decision?
  12. 4 films that show how humans can fortify – or botch – their relationship with AI
  13. The science of defiance: A psychology researcher explains why people comply – and how to resist
  14. Personal scandals sink CEOs faster than financial fraud, research shows
  15. Why you seriously need to stop trying to be funny at work
  16. Banks retreat from climate change commitments – but it’s business more than politics
  17. Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people
  18. Why Argentina is looking to the Trump administration for a bailout − and what the US Treasury can do to help
  19. How the First Amendment protects Americans’ speech − and how it does not
  20. NASA will say goodbye to the International Space Station in 2030 − and welcome in the age of commercial space stations
  21. Trump isn’t cutting Pell Grants, after all − but other changes could complicate financial aid for some students
  22. How a devastating grape pest is reshaping vineyards across Colorado’s Western Slope
  23. 2 newly launched NASA missions will help scientists understand the influence of the Sun, both from up close and afar
  24. Detroit’s Gordie Howe bridge is poised to open as truck traffic between US-Canada slows – low-income residents are deciding whether to stay or go
  25. Hobbits of Flores evolved to be small by slowing down growth during childhood, new research on teeth and brain size suggests
  26. From anime to activism: How the ‘One Piece’ pirate flag became the global emblem of Gen Z resistance
  27. Facing a shutdown, budget negotiations are much harder because Congress has given Trump power to cut spending through ‘rescission’
  28. Air quality analysis reveals minimal changes after xAI data center opens in pollution-burdened Memphis neighborhood
  29. What happens when AI comes to the cotton fields
  30. Birding by ear: How to learn the songs of nature’s symphony with some simple techniques
  31. Title IX’s effectiveness in addressing campus sexual assault is at risk − a law professor explains why
  32. Biosphere 2’s latest mission: Learning how life first emerged on Earth – and how to make barren worlds habitable
  33. Politicizing federal troops in US mirrors use of military in Latin America in the 1970s and ’80s
  34. Some new drugs aren’t actually ‘new’ – pharmaceutical companies exploit patents and raise prices for patients, but data transparency can help protect innovation
  35. Mindfulness won’t burn calories, but it might help you stick with your health goals
  36. Trump’s targeting of ‘enemies’ like James Comey echoes FBI’s dark history of mass surveillance, dirty tricks and perversion of justice under J. Edgar Hoover
  37. Trump’s use of FBI to target ‘enemies’ echoes FBI’s dark history of mass surveillance, dirty tricks and perversion of justice under J. Edgar Hoover
  38. Even as Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves, TV networks remain more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before
  39. A Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger could give Trump even more influence over US media – shaping the news and culture Americans watch and stream
  40. Why can’t we feel the Earth moving?
  41. A Great Lakes oil pipeline faces 3 controversies with no speedy resolutions
  42. How Squishmallow collecting helped me cope with grief, make new enemies and find ‘villains’ worth studying
  43. TikTok sale puts app’s algorithm in the spotlight – a social media expert explains how the For You Page works and what changes are in store
  44. Vaccine mandates misinformation: 2 experts explain the true role of slavery and racism in the history of public health policy – and the growing threat ignorance poses today
  45. How Philly anarcho-punks blended music, noise and social justice in the 1990s and 2000s
  46. Why are there so many protests? The US public is highly polarized, and that drives people to act
  47. Why Jimmy Kimmel’s First Amendment rights weren’t violated – but ABC’s would be protected if it stood up to the FCC and Trump
  48. Palestinian statehood is winning major new supporters at UN – but symbolic action won’t make it happen
  49. UK and other Western nations recognize Palestinian state ahead of UN meetings – but symbolic action won’t make statehood happen
  50. UK, France and other Western nations recognize Palestinian state ahead of UN meetings – but symbolic action won’t make statehood happen