Brooklyn College Archives - Page 3 of 6

Silhouette of mother and her two little children against starry night sky

A Mother, a Masked Intruder, and a Story That Messes With Your Mind

July 8, 2019

A new novel, "The Need," creates a disturbing portrait of motherhood when a woman overwhelmed by the demands of her day-to-day life encounters a masked intruder in her home who seems to know all of her secrets. Read more ›

Habits May Not Always Be That Habitual

June 10, 2019

| Brooklyn College, The Graduate Center

Do habits always lead to autopilot-type behavior, or do we remain goal-oriented when accomplishing a task? Read more ›

A Caveman Walks Into a Bar: Can Evolution Explain Humor?

May 30, 2019

| Brooklyn College, The Graduate Center

Evolution explains many human traits. But what about humor? What purpose does that serve? Read more ›

Airport-style queues marked with "immigration" tape

Please Let Me Through: A Poet’s Airport Meditation

May 29, 2019

| Brooklyn College, The Graduate Center

A political scientist's poem -- published in The New York Times -- contemplates airports as places filled with anxiety as well as adventure. Read more ›

Refrigeration Contributes to Climate Change. This Material Might Help.

May 14, 2019

| Brooklyn College, The Graduate Center

Remember when chlorofluorocarbons were destroying the ozone layer? Refrigeration switched from CFCs to hydrofluorocarbons, but they're bad for climate change. Now a new material is being developed for cooling. Read more ›

Student protest at City College of New York, 1969

Jim Crow North: Institutionalized Racism Outside the South

May 6, 2019

| Brooklyn College, Hostos Community College, The Graduate Center

A new book argues that institutionalized racism was just as pervasive in places like New York as it was in the South. Read more ›

A lone baseball bat sits on an empty baseball field.

Epigenetics Could Be the Key to Progress on Lou Gehrig’s Disease

April 25, 2019

| Brooklyn College, The Graduate Center

Lou Gehrig retired from baseball 80 years ago but the disease that killed him remains incurable. Epigenetics may be the key to progress on Lou Gehrig's disease. Read more ›

Illustration of a German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel from 1875

From Logic to Literature and Back Again: Interpreting Hegel

April 4, 2019

| Brooklyn College, The Graduate Center

Narrating the present moment as it happens can be difficult, but one philosophy professor proposes turning to Hegel in order to help. Read more ›

Black patient measures his glucose with a glucometer

Understanding Obesity and Diabetes in Foreign-Born Blacks

March 26, 2019

| Brooklyn College, Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy, Hunter College

Calculating the health of foreign-born blacks can be difficult because they’re often classified alongside U.S.-born blacks, but that distinction remains necessary considering their different health profiles. Read more ›