La Bible raconte peu de choses sur l’enfance de Jésus – mais cela n’a pas empêché les chrétiens du Moyen Âge de se délecter de récits le présentant comme un « petit garnement » sacré.
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Employers that don’t support employees with mental illness risk missing out on the talents and skills that such employees can provide.
Legends about Jesus’ early years that circulated in medieval Europe often drew on apocryphal texts.
US coins showcase American identity and public memory through their designs. The America 250 coins just unveiled reflect the nation’s divided politics and history.
Ocmulgee Mounds may soon be redesignated by Congress as America’s 64th national park. But what does this actually mean, and why does it matter?
What muscles feet have, how your brain controls them, and how humans evolved all play a part in why people can’t easily move individual toes.
Advocates for each side will provide a different explanation for who falls under ‘the jurisdiction’ of the United States.
Political scientist Carolyn Holmes speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of American interest in South Africa’s white Afrikaner minority.
A survey of 849 professional Santas found that one-third of them don’t match the usual image of a roly-poly bearded white man.
Is an organism a sum of its parts, or should they be considered as a whole? New research on ferns shows how the way scientists understand evolution affects how they study life.
Politics is just one challenge. The cost of borrowing to build wind and solar farms is another, especially in fast-growing developing countries. There are solutions.
Nearly a quarter of US households struggle to pay their energy bills at the same time as America’s social safety nets, including home heat aid, are disappearing.
Spontaneity, lack of set lists and real-time creativity were among the hallmarks of the White Stripes’ spellbinding live shows.
The US has ample forest resources, but replacing imports with domestic lumber isn’t as simple as it sounds.
With partisan advantage, clashing perceptions of reality and revolutionary readings of the Constitution all in play, the Supreme Court’s cases this year reach far into American politics and culture.
Students in this literature course read a range of novels, short stories and more on grave robbing, murder, terror and grief.
Thomas Edison is just part of the answer, and the light bulb is just part of what he achieved.
From tigers to mice and penguins to elephants – animal pharmacologists analyze samples from them all and play an important role in devising treatment plans.
Kids with good executive function tend to grow up to be financially stable, healthy, productive adults. Past attempts to teach these skills have flopped. New brain research on language may change that.
White-tailed deer host these brain worms, but they don’t actually get the disease, which makes it harder for biologists to monitor its prevalence.
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Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Genomics, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Microbiology, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Hydrogeology, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee
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Professor and Department Head, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Practice and Julia G. and Alfred G. Hill Chair of Excellence in Science, Technology, and Medical Writing, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee; Smithsonian Institution
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Research Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee
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Derek H. Alderman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Chancellor's Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Arabic, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor Department of Geography & Sustainability, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Adult and Continuing Education, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee
