Douglass begins by saying that he does not know his birthday and this bothers him.
What a simple statement yet is conveys so much of the laments of an ex slave and the cruelty of the slave system.
Douglass was a famous orator who wrote his memoirs as a means of discussing abolition.…
Isle Royale in Michigan is one of the most remote and pristine of all the U.S. national parks, and it is the site of the world’s longest-running predator-prey study. Every summer, Jeffrey M. Holden leads groups of citizen scientists on week-long expeditions to search for dead moose.…
In The Globalization of Wheat, Marci R. Baranski explores Norman Borlaug’s complicated legacy as godfather of the Green Revolution. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his role in fighting global hunger, Borlaug, an American agricultural scientist and plant breeder who worked for the Rockefeller Foundation, left a legacy that divides opinions even today.…
Natural fires are as essential as sun and rain in fire-adapted forests, but as humans encroach on wild spaces, fear, arrogance, and greed have shaped the way that people view these regenerative events and given rise to misinformation that threatens whole ecosystems as well as humanity’s chances of overcoming the climate crisis.…
The public has taken a new level of interest in outbreak response since 2020, learning epidemiological terms and seeking information about how to stay prepared in a pandemic. Public health professionals are calling on citizen scientists’ participation as outbreaks are increasingly occurring in complex environments, expanding the number of people and types of activities required to control the spread of disease.…
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Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she’s been reassigned to another patient.…
Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens–until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state’s best witness, but she can’t remember what happened before her very own eyes–or can she?…
Douglass begins by saying that he does not know his birthday and this bothers him.
What a simple statement yet is conveys so much of the laments of an ex slave and the cruelty of the slave system.
Douglass was a famous orator who wrote his memoirs as a means of discussing abolition.…
Douglass begins by saying that he does not know his birthday and this bothers him.
What a simple statement yet is conveys so much of the laments of an ex slave and the cruelty of the slave system.
Douglass was a famous orator who wrote his memoirs as a means of discussing abolition.…
