Education

Auburn University’s help desk is still answering the public’s calls 70 years on.

Tens of thousands of Bangladeshi farmers are being trained to farm on soils getting saltier due to climate change

Archaeologist Michael Collins waited sixteen years to buy the land that he knew held 20,000-year-old secrets.

The Caral civilization flourished from 3000–1800 BCE.

One of the joys of Substack is that it allows writers to speak to their readers in a direct and unfiltered way, one that feels and sounds a little different from a traditional newspaper op-ed or magazine article.

Almost three months into the Trump administration’s war on universities, and a year and a half into the Republican Party’s organized campaign against the presidents of top colleges, it is clear that antisemitism and D.E.I. are mere pretexts for these attacks.

My mother has a tattoo, but it’s not what you think. She was born a little too early to be a hippie, was too preoccupied with raising Vietnam-era kids on a desert air force base to get into all the sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll.

Birkenstocks for $10? Not so fast.

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