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The Conversation U.S. launched its new book club with a bang – talking to mathematician Manil Suri about his nonfiction work “The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math.”...
September 18, 2023
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Written by Nicholas Tampio, Fordham University; Asim Ali, Auburn University; Patricia A. Young, professor of education UMBC, and Shital Thekdi, University of Richmond One of the most intense...
September 6, 2023
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Written by Tara S. Carpenter, principal lecturer of chemistry and biochemistry, UMBC If you have curly hair, you know that every day is a new adventure. What will my hair do today? Why does...
August 11, 2023
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Seven years ago, Mejdulene Bernard Shomali began a search for her queer Arab women “banat” ancestors. Shomali, a queer Palestinian poet, was looking for mirrors and searching for hope in other...
July 31, 2023
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Written by Beth Saunders, Curator and Head of Special Collections and Gallery, UMBC. At the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Special Collections, where I am head curator, we’ve...
June 15, 2023
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Written by Bob Leamon, research scientist, Partnership for Heliophysics and Space Environment Research (PHaSER), UMBC El Niño is officially here, and while it’s still weak right now, federal...
June 9, 2023
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Written by Meredith Oyen, associate professor of history and Asian studies, UMBC. An encounter in which a Chinese naval ship cut across the path of a U.S. destroyer in the Taiwan Strait on...
June 9, 2023
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On a warm and bright sunny day in April when the trees in Baltimore City’s Patterson Park are changing from bright green buds to full leaf and the birds are competing with the car horns, Viridiana...
June 8, 2023
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What if you could ask yourself a big question and then use your intuition to follow it wherever it led for as long as it took? It would take a certain kind of guts, right? But, with a willingness...
June 8, 2023
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The AI apocalypse is coming. Or it isn’t. Depending on what you read, you might get confused. One thing is certain: Humans are fired up about smart machines. Much of the attention has focused...
June 8, 2023
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