2015 showed how much race still matters in education.Illinois Springfield, CC BY-NC-NDAs we approach 2016, we look back at the big stories of The Conversation’s education coverage over the past 12 months.
2015 was a year of much turmoil: higher education witnessed student activism not quite seen since the free speech movement of the 1960s.
The...
A Syrian refugeeMuhammad Hamed/REUTERSAs we approach 2016, we look back at the big stories of The Conversation’s politics and society desk over the past 12 months.
Perhaps the biggest international story this year was the rise of the Islamic State, or ISIS; the war in Syria; and the resulting crisis that lates...
An update on the classic Earthrise photo: NASA's latest image of Earth from one million miles away.NASA Earth Observatory As we approach 2016, we look back at the big – even world-changing – stories of The Conversation’s environment and energy coverage this year.
The biggest story of 2105 from the environment and energy desk is a...
Whose money pile is growing was a key issue in 2015.Money tree via www.shutterstock.comAs we approach 2016, we look back at the big stories of The Conversation’s economics and business coverage over the past 12 months.
The year began with fears of a “Grexit” and ended with the first increase in US interest rates in almost a decade....
John James Audubon's American Flamingo (1838).Sotheby'sWith the New Year approaching, we highlight the top arts and culture stories from 2015.
Over the past year, there was no shortage of news events, artistic breakthroughs and cultural trends to write about. As always, we tried to provide an interesting twist to supplement existing coverage.
With...
Checking up on the year that was.Stethoscope image via www.shutterstock.com.As we eye a brand new year, it’s good to look back and see what stories 2015 brought us. Here is a look at what kept the health and medicine desk busy over the past year.
At this time last year, a measles outbreak was brewing in...
Like space probe Dawn above dwarf planet Ceres, we aimed to bring back up-close and personal data on the year's science and technology stories.NASA/JPL-Caltech , CC BYThere are a number of definitions of science, as both a process and a body of knowledge. At root, it’s an effort to understand the world around us via observation and...
Million Mask March in London November 2015Peter Nicholls/ReutersJust days after the Paris terrorist attacks on November 13, the iconic mask of Guy Fawkes appeared – again – in two videos released in French by the hacktivist techno-social collective Anonymous. This time, they declared a total war on the Islamic State, or ISIS,...
Voicing concerns isn't the same as smashing the latest technology.UnknownOn December 21, the company SpaceX made history by successfully launching a rocket and returning it to a safe landing on Earth. It’s also the day that SpaceX founder Elon Musk was nominated for a Luddite Award.
The nomination came as part of a campaign by the Information...
Will TV's future flicker into focus?'Screen' via www.shutterstock.com“The end of television” is a headline that’s been liberally thrown around for the past 15 years.
Indeed, the past year saw audiences becoming more and more amenable to adopting new ways to watch TV shows, with live audiences for broadcast and cable programs declin...
