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From boot camp battle cries to euphemisms on the battlefield, the U.S. military relies on “kill talk”—a robust linguistic infrastructure to strip individuality, suppress empathy, and normalize violence, long before they ever fire a shot.
By: Janet McIntosh
Humanitarian organizations invest in education to promote safety, resilience, and social cohesion, but researchers continue to debate its long-term impact on conflict and human well-being.
By: Chloe Bruce
Lab-grown meat is a sustainable and ethical alternative to traditional meat. It offers the same taste and texture while reducing animal suffering, environmental impact, and health risks.
By: Laurie Wills
A Scottish artist and theorist argued that the same principles governing musical harmony also determine beauty in architecture, color, geometry, and the human form, revealing how music influenced 19th-century theories of aesthetics and perception.
By: Carmel Raz
Free-roaming cats are an invasive species and one of the most significant sources of human-caused bird mortality.
By: Reynard Loki
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s AORTA helps organizations restructure for greater equity.
By: Damon Orion
Zoonotic diseases linked to factory farming raise pandemic risks, but food tech innovations offer a safer alternative.
By: Alex Crisp
For 6,000 years, humans have controlled water to serve their needs, but a warming planet is revealing the limits of that approach.
By: Jeremy Rifkin
Research suggests that human consciousness evolved as a cognitive filter, privileging and amplifying human-communicative inputs as a foundation for transmissive teaching and learning, language development, and, ultimately, cultural evolution and culture itself.
By: Josh Fisher
Using the same land for the production of both agriculture and solar energy is a win-win for the climate and farmers.
By: Tina Casey