Why do people wish they could write, sing, dance, and draw, long after they’ve given up on these things? Does creative activity have a biological function? Is there something common to everything we call the arts? What…

The reversal of Roe v. Wade is about much more than reproductive rights – so argues Mary Ziegler, a professor of law at U.C. Davis and an expert on the law, history, and politics of reproduction, health care, and conser…

Charles Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species that he could imagine how flowers and bees might evolve in tandem to adapt to one another. In this talk, Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Founding Chair of the Integrated Sciences Depar…

We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncr…

Fintech has disrupted industries globally, driving trillion-dollar value creation and destruction. Having been on the frontiers of fintech growth over the last two decades working on a PayPal competitor and Google Walle…

Based on his 2019 book Upheaval, Jared Diamond reveals how successful nations recover from crisis through selective change. In an exhaustive comparative study, he shows how seven countries have survived upheavals in the…

On January 6th, 2021, insurrectionists breached the U.S. Capitol building as citizens across the country followed the unfolding events on television, social media, and other news sources. Information about what happened…

In this fascinating look at the race to secure the global food supply, Amanda Little, environmental journalist and professor of journalism and science writing at Vanderbilt University, investigates how we will feed huma…