Science & Technology

Guns and Homework: Who Is Telling The Truth?

As an immigrant to the United States, who came here from India more than 30…

Science Is Supposed to Keeps Us All Safe: A Wetland Ecologist Reflects on Hurricane Katrina

“We have the body bags ready.” Though it was more than 25 years ago, I…

How Children Fall into the Traps of Online Predators – What Parents Can Do

In late May, Chase William Mulligan, 28, of Silver Spring, Maryland, pled guilty to producing child…

Why Accessibility on Campuses Matters More Than Ever

Even as the Trump administration slashes critical funding for services that support people with disabilities, public institutions…

Confronting Bias & Fears: Why AI Is Both Promise and Peril for Educators

In November 2023, I was introduced to AI through my son, Brandon, the millennial who…

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for an Affordable Quality of Life

In many countries like China and the U.S., retirement is increasingly becoming a distant vision, even for the old.…

Time For A Cure: Step Up To Eliminate Hepatitis C

Despite having a safe and effective cure for hepatitis C infection, the U.S. is failing 2.4 million Americans living with it because of an outdated and unnecessarily complicated treatment system.

STEM At Risk? Higher Ed Must Heed Humanities Warnings

Humanists have long understood themselves as the canary in the coal mine of higher education. …

TikTok Ban Needs More Work

President Joe Biden signed into law a requirement for ByteDance to sell TikTok or be banned from…

Why Scientific Publishing Culture Needs a Major Overhaul in the age of Generative AI

Scientific publishing and the prevailing “publish or perish” paradigm within academia have long been considered…

Equipping Educators for the Age of Artificial Intelligence

According to a recent survey conducted by the Cengage Group and Bay View Analytics, a mere 16% of educators feel…

Every day is Groundhog Day in the humanities

This time of year, a lot of people watch, or re-watch, the 1993 film Groundhog Day. TV…

OpenAI’s Lack of Gender Diversity on its Corporate Board Could Be an Existential Threat to Humanity

Sam Altman was recently fired as CEO of OpenAI by a board of directors that…

What Senator Cory Booker gets wrong about Black people and AI

Recently, Senator Cory Booker sat down with tech insiders to discuss equity, discrimination, and Blackness, as…

ChatGPT for therapy? Houston, we have a problem

The US Space Force has clamped down on its use of ChatGPT, citing security concerns and the…