Rachel Wayne

Medium • November 5, 2019

Capital One’s Outage Totally Screwed Over the Working Class

For Americans working from paycheck-to-paycheck, a technical glitch to services can be dire

Union Magazine • September 4, 2019

Laurie Mintz

Laurie Mintz ’82 is calling for a revolution. That may sound unusual for a psychologist, but Mintz’s work is far from typical. She uses science to promote sexual health and well-being.

Hillviews • September 4, 2019

Riders Up - Paul Bulmahn's quest: a triple crown winner

The Florida sun quickly dries the morning dew at GoldMark Farm, but not before a parade of thoroughbreds, accompanied by its eager entourage, approaches the training track. T. Paul Bulmahn greets everyone with a warm smile as he studies a clipboard...

Denison Magazine • September 4, 2019

Summer 2018 - Open Mic - Magma Master

What is your research about? I’m currently focused on how magma is stored—for how long, what it does underground, what it does leading up to a volcanic eruption. I’m looking at volcanoes in California and Oregon, as well as in New Zealand. I’m...

Ytori • September 4, 2019

We Are All Archie Carr’s Children

Archie Carr, a larger-than-life man who could summon a snapping turtle named Jasper at will, paved the way for the conservation of sea turtles around the world. Karen Bjorndal, his former graduate student, and Alan Bolten today direct the Archie Carr...

Ytori • September 4, 2019

The Legend in the Loam

Two UF alumni archaeologists unearth the home and legend of a freed African Muslim slave who became a financier in Georgetown at the turn of the 19th century. Among the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s collection of 19th-century oil portraits of esteemed...

September 4, 2019

Vodou and Valency

UF Haitian Creole specialist Ben Hebblethwaite unearths African and Haitian history from the mythology of Vodou songs and rituals. The tiny island nation of Haiti holds centuries of history from another continent. Sung in Creole, the sacred songs of...

Ytori • September 4, 2019

Pure Imagination

Imagine the once-lush Planet Earth scorched across its surface, while the sublime beauty of the coastline has been subsumed by rocky shorelines comprising jagged remnants of once-valuable properties. Crops domesticated to be weather-hardy pale, while...

Ytori • September 4, 2019

Conservation Clues

Ecological modeling. Saving the world. The two go hand-in-hand for theoretical ecologist and evolutionary biologist Bob Holt, who recently joined a team of nine scientists to describe how conservation models must be designed with consideration of...

Ytori • September 4, 2019

Crab Love in the Garbage Patch – Publications

Oceanic crabs find love in strange places, including in the pocket above a sea turtle’s tail and on floating plastic debris. Joseph Pfaller PhD ’16 and Michael Gil PhD ’15 have led several complementary projects that culminated in an intriguing...

Ytori • September 4, 2019

More than Skin Deep – Publications

Racism is real and stress is not just all in your head. With genetics-based medicine came the compelling desire to boil every health issue down to one’s DNA, with issues such as hypertension and anxiety falling into an ambiguous field straddling the...

Medium • August 25, 2019

Media Mind Control

Are we actually being controlled by the media? In the Black Mirror episode “Nosedive,” we witness a self-absorbed woman experience the titular event, driven by her plummeting reputation on a social network that has the power to control everything...

Medium • August 25, 2019

Too Young to Be in Pain

Although people with invisible disabilities, which includes mental illness, often experience skepticism, condescension, or outright disbelief at our claims of pain, young people have it especially bad.

Medium • August 19, 2019

Millennials vs. Retail

Millennials are the merry murderers of the 21st century, slaying everything from golf to weddings. After all, they’re simply more interested in traveling to Third World countries or dining exclusively on avocado toast and gourmet coffee than being...

Medium • May 3, 2019

“Reading is for Losers!”: The American Trend of Intentional Illiteracy

“It’s not my job to read!” Ah, the screeches of angry/humiliated customers who ignored the giant signs warning them that there is no cashback/the ice cream machine is down/the floor is wet. In my (relatively short) time in retail, I heard this...

Medium • August 6, 2019

The Thing We Don’t Admit About Sex

Real people share how the media contributed to their orgasm gap

Medium • August 29, 2019

Gatekeepers of the Galaxy

Gatekeeping refers to the practice of ranking fans of a book, movie, game, or franchise as either “true” or not. Gatekeepers think of themselves as bearing the correct opinion of pop culture and insist that others memorize a vast amount of trivia...