It's no surprise that TIPsters have published books, written for leading newspapers, and won literary awards—after all, TIPsters go on to do … [Read more...]
Saving Endangered Languages
According to the New York Times, over half of the languages spoken across the world today are likely to die out within the next one hundred … [Read more...]
An Evolutionary View of Sleep
Dr. Charles Nunn is a professor of evolutionary anthropology and global health at Duke’s Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. He heads up … [Read more...]
What Sleep Research Shows Us
Dr. Aatif Mairaj Husain is director of the Neurology Fellowship Program for the Department of Neurology at Duke’s School of … [Read more...]
How the World Learns
A French mathematician recently developed a proof on all the different types of tessellating pentagons. Mathematicians had been working on … [Read more...]
Road Trippin’ across the US
By all accounts, I am a traveler. I have lived in 5 US states, visited 32 others and have traveled to more than 30 countries across 4 … [Read more...]
Seeing Another’s Home
I will tell you the absolute, 100 percent truth about me and traveling: it is not my favorite. I know that there is no greater sacrilege … [Read more...]
Art Creates Community in China
In the late 1980s, a journalist named Xinran hosted a radio program called Words on the Night Breeze. And what the night breeze carried … [Read more...]
Lessons from the Inca Trail
A little over three years ago I accomplished a major bucket list item: I hiked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. It was as exhilarating, … [Read more...]