Walk This Way: How Walking Increases Empathy and Awareness Kaitlin Solimine Art & Literature, Arts & Culture In May 1862, The Atlantic Monthly posthumously published Henry David Thoreau’s seminal essay, “Walking.” Thoreau’s central premise seemed that humanity should experience nature “as an inhabitant”...
Five Critically Endangered Species You Probably Don’t Know About Kaitlin Solimine Science, Science & Medicine Yes, the plight of the giant panda, polar bear, and Amur leopard make for compelling media coverage (and rightly so!) but here’s a list of creatures so close to extinction that conservationists are fighting...
The Asian Complex – Or Why We Fear Iran More Than North Korea Kaitlin Solimine Government, Society & Culture Kim Jong-il, supreme leader of North Korea, was a brutal dictator with an arsenal of nuclear weapons presenting the greatest “proliferation danger than any other on the planet.” He left a legacy of...
Altruism: Are Humans Inherently Altruistic? Kaitlin Solimine Psychology, Society & Culture The tragic bombings at the Boston Marathon happened live. As cell towers struggled with traffic and calls couldn’t get through, the conversation moved to Facebook, Twitter, Google. Beyond the heroism of...
The Higgs-Boson Particle: How a Tiny Particle Answers Big Questions Kaitlin Solimine Science, Science & Medicine It could read like the start of a bad joke: Two protons walked into a bar and ordered a round of shots… But the truth of the matter (or anti-matter) is that two protons colliding has major cosmological and...
Self-Deception: Success, Happiness, and the Art of Self-Deception Kaitlin Solimine Psychology The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. ― Friedrich Nietzsche Plato once said, “Those who tell the stories rule society.” We need only look at the modern marketing machine or the...
The Universe Contained In A Rock: A Meteorite’s Clues to the Universe Kaitlin Solimine Science, Science & Medicine It looked like a scene from a movie: students crowded in a school gym blinded by a bright light in the sky as windows shattered around them. Last Friday was a red letter day for galactic occurrences: the...
