American civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, who became a symbol of the movement when she integrated an all-white elementary school as a young girl in the early 1960s, spoke about the continued fight for educational justice during Yale’s annual...
Every system in a living organism depends upon a finite supply of energy in order to function. In humans, no organ is more energy-intensive than the brain, which consumes about 20% of the body’s metabolic energy.
But how is energy distributed in the...
Todne Thomas specializes in what she calls the “slow pressure-cooker research method.” An anthropologist, she believes that one of the most effective ways to learn about people and communities is through long-term, intensive, in-person research —...