Experts In The News
Vice
July 15, 2019
When pubic hair became less fashionable, so did talking about crabs—but they're just as common as they've ever been.
July 15, 2019
A populist mayor in Taiwan who favors closer ties with China won the opposition party’s nomination to run against President Tsai Ing-wen, who has been sharply critical of Beijing’s attempts to pressure the island into unification.
July 15, 2019
Mel Wolzinger died recently at age ninety-eight. That suggests he led a good, long life, and he did. He was active to the end. And it’s a loss to our history. Indeed, he made history.
July 15, 2019
July marks a golden anniversary for Las Vegas: the opening of the International Hotel. If you haven’t heard of it, you may be more familiar with it as the Westgate, and before that as the Hilton. It’s had quite a history.
Rhode Island Monthly
July 12, 2019
It’s suppertime, two days before Easter, and the Sportsbook, a two-level lounge on the second floor of Twin River Casino in Lincoln, is slowly filling. A ragged line of men bend over their sheets or scan the odds displayed on monitors as they inch to the tills. The walls flash with color and movement from 103 flat screens wrapping the room, like the facets of a fly’s compound eye. At least twenty professional athletic contests are being waged in hockey, basketball and baseball, and everybody hopes it will be a good Friday.
July 12, 2019
When you enter the southernmost part of the Las Vegas Strip and are greeted by the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign, you can tell everyone you’ve reached Paradise — literally.
July 11, 2019
In 2016, it was caucus, old school. In 2020, the Nevada Democratic Party will hold caucus, new school.
EurekAlert!
July 11, 2019
Cleveland Clinic's fourth annual analysis of Alzheimer's disease drug development found that the pipeline has grown in the number and variety of agents being tested over the past year, while highlighting several advances in the field including new clinical trial designs, more detailed criteria for making a research diagnosis, and an increased use of biological tests reflecting of the disease.
