Our society is currently plagued by many wacky theories. In the dictionary, there are multiple definitions of the word theory, most having not much to do with science. For scientists, a theory is something special, pure and rigorous, right? Well, maybe. Consider Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian friar whose published research led us on a direct […]

EHST will show two short videos, and then discuss each. The first video is a short Tonight Show interview from last June with Jane Elliot.  She is the teacher who, shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King, ran what became a famous experiment on discrimination in her third-grade class, involving separating children with blue eyes […]

UNC Professor Deen Freelon will discuss the interaction between social media and disinformation.  He will speak briefly about his research, and then he will engage the meeting participants to share their perceptions of and experiences with mis/disinformation.  He is very interested in how our own perceptions mesh with his research.  Prof. Freelon was recently interviewed […]

NC State Prof. Jay Levine will speak to us about how climate change is negatively impacting human health.  Of course, the disparities in wealth will cause the most harm to those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder.   The 1% of the population who is wealthy may have nothing to worry about, but […]

Les Leopold will speak to us on the intersection of racism and economic inequality.  He  is the co-founder of the Labor Institute, a nonprofit that designs research on labor and workplace issues. His most recent book is Runaway Inequality: An Activist’s Guide to Economic Justice. He is currently helping to build a national economic educational train-the-trainer […]