In recent years, creators and fans have started to mingle. Fandom was once limited to remote interactions and filtered through journalists, publicists, editors, letters, articles, book signings, film openings. Now, between ComiCon panels and Twitter, fans interact with creators immediately and loudly. More than that, past generations of fans are now…
The food we consume and the resulting benefits/hazards of specific items have been in the spotlight for quite some time now. Each week there is a new food to eat for superior health, and every other week there is another food villain to avoid. This is not surprising given the…
Gerald Early, editor of The Common Reader, speaks with RAF-STL radio host Kathy Lawton Brown and the journal's inception, and its future.
There is little about big-game hunting that has changed since the era of Teddy Roosevelt.
Well intentioned as they may be, trigger warnings nevertheless confuse victim with expert, and expert with advocate.
The surprising positivist connection between Serge Gainsbourg and the Manhattan Project.
The power of President Lincoln's most famous speech resides in its simplicity.
Translation, or the attempt to make another language part of our own, is as complicated as what can never be translated.
Knowing the difference between energy's ability to work, and the rate at which it's created and consumed, is crucial to balancing consumers' power needs.
In terms of untapped mineral reserves, The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is arguably the richest country in the world, with its estimated $24 trillion worth of natural resources. The DRC is a country of superlatives, with vast reserves of coltan, gold, cassiterite, and tin mined in eastern Congo,…