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She Loves TV So Much She Wrote a Book About It

March 2, 2021

Let the intelligentsia scoff: A new book offers an unapologetic ode to TV from a fan who grew up watching hours of it every day. Read more ›

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Did US Policy Wipe Out Puerto Rico’s Small Farms? This Book Says No

December 8, 2020

| Lehman College, The Graduate Center

A new book challenges the notion that small farms in Puerto Rico disappeared after the U.S. takeover in 1898. Read more ›

Who Says Physics Can’t Be Fun?

October 19, 2020

| College of Staten Island, The Graduate Center

A new book from Prof. Charles Liu endeavors to make physics fun — while updating an old science book! Read more ›

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Pandemic Social Distancing Can Help Explain This Geometric Challenge

October 14, 2020

| Brooklyn College, The City College of New York, The Graduate Center

CUNY mathematicians have solved a classic geometry question involving dodecahedrons and what's known as the "anti-social jogger" problem. Read more ›

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They’re Hanging Out, Sharing Food, Having Sex: They’re Dolphins

October 8, 2020

| Hunter College, The Graduate Center

Dolphins off the coast of Mexico were seen sharing food, a rarely observed behavior. Oh and there was some hanky-panky going on, too. Read more ›

Why Asian Americans Have Trouble Climbing the Corporate Ladder

October 2, 2020

| Hunter College, The Graduate Center

A new book asks why Asian Americans have trouble climbing to the top of the corporate ladder, a phenomenon also known as the 'bamboo ceiling.' Read more ›

How Fox TV Got Its Name: From an Immigrant in the Movie Biz

September 24, 2020

| Brooklyn College

A new book charts the history of Twentieth Century Fox, from the movie studio founded by an immigrant, to Rupert Murdoch's Fox TV. Read more ›

Works By Novelists Flannery O’Connor & Gertrude Stein Are Now Operas

September 23, 2020

| Bronx Community College

A Bronx Community College professor has composed operas based on novels by two American women, Gertrude Stein and Flannery O'Connor Read more ›

The ‘Great Demographic Illusion’ of the White Minority

September 8, 2020

| The Graduate Center

Perhaps you’ve heard it said that whites will be a minority in America by the middle of the 21st century. A new book explores this "demographic illusion. Read more ›

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Even Storefront Signs are Being Gentrified

September 4, 2020

| John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Over the decades, store signage has changed drastically — and it has more to do with social class and gentrification than style. Read more ›

New Documentary Shines Light on the Life and Death of Breonna Taylor

September 3, 2020

| Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism

Yoruba Richen, of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, directed a documentary about the life and untimely death of Breonna Taylor. Read more ›

There’s a Better Way to Teach Autistic Students. Here’s How

August 27, 2020

| College of Staten Island, The Graduate Center

It's time to focus on the strengths of students with autism, rather than their weaknesses, researchers say. Read more ›