This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The pandemic has driven a huge increase in participation in citizen science, where people without specialized training collect data out in the world or perform simple analyses of data online to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As temperatures began to dip this fall, Allen Blackwell III says he and his colleagues at Baltimore City Public Schools kept watch on weather reports hoping to see it hit…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. If a crisis…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As 2020 comes to a close, are you looking at the glass half full, or depending on the day half empty after almost a year of surviving the pandemic? In…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As we stare down the barrel of a second wave of school closures, we know one thing for certain: There’s no going around parents. Teachers must work with them and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Through the digitization of about 1.3 million files dating back to the 1600s, city leaders in Salem, MA learned that one issue has remained top-of-mind for residents throughout the centuries:…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been dire around the world, and resource-rich countries are no exception. Arguably, lower-income resource-dependent countries face the direst challenges. A “perfect storm” of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. President Donald Trump’s administration had projected 20 million people would be vaccinated by the end of December. The US is at 4.8 million first-dose vaccinations as of Tuesday, missing its 2020 goal…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the aftermath of COVID-19, which exposed so many of the racial inequalities in our society, local and state governments cannot simply offer an inferior version of what came before.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Much as we may want to consign 2020 to the dustbin of history, it taught us some vital lessons and it sets the stage for the year ahead. It showed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To combat vaccine misinformation at home and around the globe, we must build trust. Dr. Heidi J. Larson founded the Vaccine Confidence Project to monitor global public confidence in immunization programs by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From last year’s protests by Google employees to this summer’s worker walkouts at Wayfair, advocacy from within the rank-and-file of corporations has made headlines in recent years. But as Jerry Davis…