Srinivasa Ramanujan has an interesting life story. As a child in India, Ramanujan was a mathematical prodigy, but lacked access to teachers who could help him exploit that brilliance. Instead, he […]
Why is a public understanding of science important? It’s tempting to say: “how could it not be important, it’s science! The coolest thing in the world! Everything runs on science!”, […]
America preaches integration and practices segregation. – Malcolm X I’ve always been fascinated by how the 70’s were such an important time in terms of Black consciousness-raising, most of which […]
By David Bryce Yaden, Rutgers U. Assistant Humanist Chaplain, In 1956, the United States of America officially changed its national motto from E Pluribus Unum, or “Out of Many, One,” […]
By Professor Frank Popper Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rutgers University In winter’s darkness I’ve been listening to conservative talk radio, which New York’s WABC, 770 AM, ably represents. You […]
If you were one of the 120,000 people on Facebook who “liked” the first article in Joshua Keating’s Slate series, “If It Happened There”, then you probably found the satire on foreign affairs […]
By David Madison, PhD Biblical Studies Two Weddings The message on our placard was straightforward: “It’s Not Complicated: I Want to Marry the Man I Love. Case Closed.” My husband […]
“There is probably more conflict”, my politics professor likes to say, “between Israelis and Palestinians on College Ave., than there is in the West Bank”. Yet most of the combatants […]
If there’s one thing that leftists of all stripes like, it’s “solidarity”. This is when people from different communities come together for the purpose of defeating a common oppressor, whether […]
Fewer than six months from now, the 2014 Winter Olympic Games are scheduled to take place in Sochi, Russia. Russia, already under criticism for the rigid censorship being imposed by […]
Applied Sentience 