Guest post by John Eric Goff, Ph.D. I take a slight risk with this blog post’s title because the one question I’m most often asked by someone in the media is: aren’t you taking something away from a great athletic moment by subjecting it to scientific analysis? My full-throated response is, “Absolutely not!” Viewing the…
By Lauren Anderson Marketing Assistant Angela Moore has lived a life full of challenges. Since birth, she has suffered from acquired spastic cerebral palsy. Although the odds were stacked against her, she never let her condition get the better of her or allowed it to define her entire life. After being diagnosed with breast cancer at…
Wild Thing is an occasional series where JHU Press authors write about the flora and fauna of the natural world—from the rarest flower to the most magnificent beast. Guest post by Gerald L. Kooyman According to Dee Boersma and Ginger Rebstock’s recent article in the open access online journal PLOS-one, the population of the world’s largest…
On Tuesday, February 4, PBS’s American Experience will air The Amish: Shunned. In light of this documentary, we asked Karen Johnson-Weiner, one of the co-authors of Johns Hopkins University Press’s The Amish, to explain the practice of shunning. Guest post by Karen M. Johnson-Weiner In Lancaster County, a group of us ate dinner with an Amish couple who had two…
On Tuesday, February 4, PBS’s American Experience will air The Amish: Shunned. In light of this documentary, we asked Karen Johnson-Weiner, one of the co-authors of Johns Hopkins University Press’s The Amish, to explain the practice of shunning. Guest post by Karen M. Johnson-Weiner In Lancaster County, a group of us ate dinner with an Amish couple who had two…