Beloved Though Befallen
In 1950, Wellston's population was 9,396. By 2010, this number had dwindled by two thirds.
Dispatches
We Are What We Eat
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…
Meat Of The Matter
There are a multitude of ways to shock an audience, but it is not every day that a news item causes fear, disdain, and skepticism all with one headline. Yet somehow the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) managed to do just this on Oct. 26 by announcing…
Policing Past Body, Mind and Heart
Writing on the wall: Theatergoers make their statements at the Dellwood Community Center for “Every 28 Hours.” It is possible that I am the only person I know in the Washington University community who knows Ferguson moderately well. By that I mean, I knew it before Michael Brown, and I came…
The Mellow Season
More than other seasons in which we go on vacation or complain about ice, fall tends to bring out the scholar in most people.
Post-Apocalypse Aesthetics? A Pruitt-Igoe Walking Tour
At the edge of Pruitt-Igoe, a housing development long gone, but long since remembered. (Credit: Stephen Hobbs) “This is, genuinely, my idea of beauty. This is life after cities. This is life after humans.” We are staring at 57 acres of overgrown wildlife comprising the former Pruitt-Igoe, one of the…
Gate Debate: Forest Park & the Power of Peripheries
St. Louis's Forest Park: The distinction between entry markers and gates is not always academic.
Katrina’s Other Resonance
Hurricane Katrina almost destroyed Tulane University's NMRs, which would have greatly reduced the university's research capacities into the causes and solutions of natural disasters. Thankfully, and for good reason, they were saved.
Hunter And Hunted
There is little about big-game hunting that has changed since the era of Teddy Roosevelt.
Big Genomic Promise of Big Data
The combination of "big data" and genomics allow medical professionals to diagnose patients genetically at risk for disease, but there are some serious hurdles to surmount before we can sequence ourselves.