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Live long and flounder: An aging expert on the looming crisis of our longer lifespans
Salon via Yahoo News· 10 months agoBirthday Cake With A Ton Of Candles Getty Images/Ziviani First, the good news. As author, MacArthur...
Princeton's Matthew Desmond Gets Everything Wrong About Poverty's Root Causes
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIllustration: Adani Samat Matthew Desmond is a Princeton University professor and the recipient of a...
Do you really know what schizophrenia is? Most people don't.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAs an expert in mental health policy, Elyn Saks is highly accomplished in her field. She graduated...
Meet this year's MacArthur 'genius grant' recipients, including a hula master and the poet laureate
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA scientist who studies the airborne transmission of diseases, a master hula dancer and cultural...
Armadillos and javelinas are Texas icons, but they haven't been here as long as you think
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 10 months agoOne of the most practical and pleasing new Texas books of 2023 is "Armadillos to Ziziphus: A...
UW-Madison historian Monica Kim awarded MacArthur 'genius' grant
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA University of Wisconsin-Madison historian on Wednesday won one of the nation's most prestigious...
How a UGA professor is leading research on the plastic pollution crisis from source to sea
Savannah Morning News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJenna Jambeck is one of USA TODAY’s Women of the Year, a recognition of women who have made a...
Beyond American Born Chinese : Gene Luen Yang discusses his other great graphic novels
Entertainment Weekly via Yahoo News· 1 year ago20 years ago, Gene Luen Yang was making his own comics... by hand. After making photocopies at...
Oprah chooses "Let Us Descend" by Jesmyn Ward as new book club pick
CBS News via Yahoo News· 7 months ago"Let Us Descend" by Jesmyn Ward, a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the youngest person...
Author Jesmyn Ward wins Library of Congress fiction prize
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction has gone to Jesmyn Ward, who at 45, is the...