Critics of evolution often argue that life, rather than gradually changing over the years through natural selection, was actually created by a so-called “intelligent designer.” Their position is that ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kent Dunlap, Trinity College (THE CONVERSATION) I broke its neck. Advertisement ...

We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. The neck is a locus of sensuality and metaphor, the breath of life and the loss of life. Kent Dunlap begins “The Neck: A ...

Though both giraffes and humans have the same number of individual neck bones (known as vertebrae), the two species also have size and structural differences. Just like humans, giraffes are said to ...

This poem by Lyudmyla Khersonsky begins in medias res with a dead body rather than the death itself, followed by a pile of urgent questions. We find ourselves suspended in a state of unknowing. The ...

(THE CONVERSATION) I broke its neck. When making a vase at the potter’s wheel, I torqued its slippery neck clear off the pot as I tried to thin it into a graceful curve. I find vases gratifying to ...