Fat tissue, as seen here under a scanning electron micrograph, maintains a “memory” of obesity, new research suggests. Steve Gschmeissner / Science Photo Library via Getty Images Fat cells have a “memory” of obesity, which may help explain why it’s […]
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Today, the city of Jerusalem is seen as so important that people are willing to kill and die to control it. And that struggle goes back centuries. Nearly a thousand years ago, European Christians embarked on what became known as
In Resist, award-winning journalist Rita Omokha charts the last century of civil rights activism, from the early years of renowned activist Ella Baker and others she inspired, to the first glimpse of allyship in the Bates Seven and a renewed
Barnes Neville Wallis. Early life and education Wallis’s early life provided the foundation for his eventual career in engineering. His father, Charles Wallis, was a doctor, but young Barnes developed an early fascination with mechanical objects, much to his father’s
AHA member Lincoln Mullen (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason Univ.), along with fellow historians John Turner (George Mason Univ.) and Britt Tevis (Syracuse Univ.), were featured in Washington Jewish Week about their new podcast, Antisemitism,
In the decade since Donald Trump began to define American politics, critics have struggled to understand his massive appeal. They have perhaps sensed by now that Trump’s support comes from someplace underneath conscious and rational political analyses. Who else but
Throughout the night of November 8th, my sleep was pierced by the smell of a burning forest. It is a familiar scent to me, something I associate with working as a wildland firefighter in California, New Mexico, and Arizona. In
On December 18, 1860, John J. Crittenden of Kentucky introduced a compromise plan to the U.S. Senate. Just two days later, South Carolina would become the first state to secede from the Union, and within six weeks, six more Southern
