When the British street artist Banksy shredded his “Girl With Balloon” after it was purchased for US$1.4 million at Sotheby’s, did he know how the art world would react? Continue Reading Banksy and the Tradition of Destroying Art
Opportunities for learning these skills are everywhere – and there are simple, enjoyable activities that parents can lead to foster these skills. Continue Reading Five math skills your child needs to get ready for kindergarten
Gay rights advocates worldwide celebrated the legal victory. Continue Reading India’s sodomy ban, now ruled illegal, was a British colonial legacy
As we enter the traditional, post-Labor Day sprint in the campaign season, voters may want to consider how much their vote really counts. Continue Reading Your vote may not count as much as you think
The restoration of Maryland’s Blode Dam is a one-of-a-kind natural experiment that will help test how relatively inexpensive drones can help scientists understand the integrity of streams and rivers. Continue Reading Drones to track one of the largest dam removals on the Eastern Seaboard
Every day there are roughly 386,000 new mouths to feed, and in that same 24 hours, scientists estimate between one and 100 species will go extinct. That’s it. Lost forever. Continue Reading How to conserve half the planet without going hungry
Imagine having the chance to put down your books and computers, and hit the open road. For a growing number of UMBC students, summer study abroad offers the opportunity to explore new cultures, meet interesting people, and see the beauties of the world first-hand. Continue Reading Postcards from Around the World: Study Abroad at UMBC
Back in the day, most teens had some sort of job lined up for the summer. Recently, however, that seems to be no longer the case. Continue Reading Why fewer kids work the kind of summer jobs that their parents used to have
The Russian attacks on the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the country’s continuing election-related hacking have happened across all three dimensions of cyberspace – physical, informational and cognitive. Continue Reading Weaponized information seeks a new target in cyberspace: Users’ minds
When you think about fearsome predators in the ocean, the first thing that pops into your mind is probably a shark. Sure, sharks are OK, with their sleek, menacing shape and their gaping jaws with rows of jagged teeth. But if you were a fish living on a coral reef or cruising along the shore over the sands of a tropical island, you would fear a far more terrifying predator. Continue Reading A cooler ocean predator than sharks? Consider the mantis shrimps
Historic surveys reveal a deep, long-lasting and bipartisan dissatisfaction with the U.S. government that started over three decades ago. Continue Reading Americans distrusted US democracy long before Trump’s Russia problem
In piles on a table in the chilly back room of UMBC’s Special Collections office lie a science fiction lover’s dream: decades-worth of fanzines in all their hand-drawn, mimeographed glory. Compiled by amateur editors, they span topics from space travel to colonization to 1970s feminism. Fittingly, the students poring over the zines as part of UMBC’s new month-long Interdisciplinary CoLab research program are just as different as the titles they explore. One studies biochemistry, another computer science. The third has interests in communications and gender and women’s studies, and was thrilled to find connections in the sci-fi zine Janus. As… Continue Reading New CoLab Program Brings Interdisciplinary Approach to Summer Research
