By Thomas Iacobucci Outside of the Lowell E. Davis Memorial Hall, parallel to the Science and Technology building, sits Kenny Jensen’s latest artistic endeavor: a sculpture replicating the leaf miner’s
By Amy Diaz The presidency of Donald Trump and proliferation of social media sites have injected two new terms into the national discourse about the news media: “Fake news” and
By Emily Wunderlich He watched the news industry evolve from essential facts to infotainment and opinion. Born in 1943, during the heyday of newspapers and radio news, William Dowell remembers
By Hope Weil If you live in the St. Petersburg area, you’ve probably heard of the bubbly probiotic drink kombucha. The drink that was originally sold primarily in health stores
By Dinorah Prevost In recent years, the U.S. Census Bureau has poked the beehive of race in the United States with statistics. It poked first in 2008 and more recently
By Bryce Lawson With the 2019 NBA Trade Deadline at a close and the NBA All-Star Game Feb. 17, a big topic of discussion around the league is whether players
By Dinorah Prevost Radio host Joshua Johnson, away from the microphone and pop filter, is not the droning radio newscaster you think of when you hear the letters N-P-R. When
By Dylan Hart Douglas Herbert is not a smoker, but says he inhales the equivalent of 183 cigarettes a year. “The reason I smoke 183 cigarettes a year is because
By Amy Diaz On the rainy, early morning of Feb. 13, around 40 presumably sleepy USF St. Petersburg students piled onto a bus headed for Tallahassee. Political science majors, medical
By Jonah Hinebaugh The phrase “American exceptionalism” was used for the first time in 1930 – by Joseph Stalin. In the decades that followed, those words became a point of