Howard Thurman – the Baptist minister who had a deep influence on MLK
Thurman taught King Jr. that spiritual cultivation was necessary to take on the intense work of social activism.AP File PhotoFor most African-Americans who grew up with the legacy of segregation and ...
Paul Harvey, Professor of American History, University of Colorado
A teen scientist helped me discover tons of golf balls polluting the ocean
Teenager Alex Weber and friends collected nearly 40,000 golf balls hit into the ocean from a handful of California golf courses.Alex Weber, CC BY-NDPlastic pollution in the world’s oceans has be...
Matthew Savoca, Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University
America's public schools seldom bring rich and poor together – and MLK would disapprove
America's public schools were meant to bring together children from all walks of life.Monkey Business Images/www.shutterstock.comFive decades after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., many ca...
Jack Schneider, Assistant Professor of Education, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Martin Luther King Jr., union man
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the picket line at the Scripto plant in Atlanta, Ga., December, 1964.APIf Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions.King understo...
Peter Cole, Professor of History, Western Illinois University
Can genetic engineering save disappearing forests?
Ash tree killed by the invasive emerald ash borer.K Steve CopeCompared to gene-edited babies in China and ambitious projects to rescue woolly mammoths from extinction, biotech trees might sound pretty...
Jason A. Delborne, Associate Professor of Science, Policy, and Society in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University
Bison are back, and that benefits many other species on the Great Plains
A young bull bison grazes on the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Pawhuska, Oklahoma.Matthew Moran, CC BY-NDDriving north of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, an extraor…
How Central American migrants helped revive the US labor movement
Salvadoran immigrants were pivotal in the Justice for Janitors campaign in Los Angeles in 1990. It earned wage increases for custodial staff nationwid…
Data breaches are inevitable – here's how to protect yourself anyway
Prepare to protect yourself.FXQuadro/Shutterstock.comIt’s tempting to give up on data security altogether, with all the billions of pieces of pe…
What a 16th-century mystic can teach us about making good decisions
Sculpture of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order, on the campus of Boston College.Jay Yuan/Shutterstock.comDecision-making is a comple…
Food is medicine: How US policy is shifting toward nutrition for better health
Policymakers are responding to a growing recognition of food as medicine.udra11/Shutterstock.comIn this new year, millions of Americans will make reso…
Is winter miserable for wildlife?
Yes, I am a bit chilly, why?tim elliott/Shutterstock.comWhile the weather outside may indeed get frightful this winter, a parka, knit hat, wool socks…
3 ways Trump could disrupt health care for the better
More data may be key to disrupting health care. Zapp2Photo/Shutterstock.comSince his winning presidential campaign, Donald Trump has beenrepeatedly bi…
