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Welcome to Sunday! The five most popular articles on our website this week are displayed below.
One from the archive: As millions of Texans suffered through an extraordinary cold snap this week, their power companies resorted to rolling blackouts. What can utilities do to stop this from happening again? In this 2019 article, Zhaoyu Wang, an engineering professor at Iowa State University, looked at what investments utilities around the nation could make to help keep the lights on during bad weather.
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Preventing home foreclosure is one reason middle-class people may declare Chapter 13 personal bankruptcy.
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Tess Wise, Amherst College
Few middle-class Americans undergoing Chapter 13 bankruptcy blame the government. They portray themselves as hardworking victims and resent others for taking more than their fair share.
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Like the best myths, the tale of Igbo Landing and the flying African seems to transcend boundaries of time and space.
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Thomas Hallock, University of South Florida
The myth has become a symbol of the traumatizing legacy of trans-Atlantic slavery. It also serves as a form of resistance and healing.
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Lucca Henrion, University of Michigan; Duo Zhang, University of Michigan; Victor C. Li, University of Michigan; Volker Sick, University of Michigan
Researchers are developing ways to lock captured CO2 into cement. It could help rebuild America’s crumbling infrastructure and deal with climate change at the same time.
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John E. Finn, Wesleyan University
The vote to acquit former President Trump for inciting the attack on the Capitol is a symptom of the dramatic decline of the US constitutional system, which is being eroded from within.
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Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire
In the early 19th century, the British – who had invented impeachment centuries before – decided it no longer served its purpose. Instead, they found a more effective way to handle a bad leader.
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