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Retired General Lee Denson, head of the Pentagon’s arms control staff at the time of the 1986 summit between US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, tells the real story behind the new film The Brink of War. 

Roka Kakehi, an incoming PhD student in population health sciences, talks about how her encounter with a new food culture inspired her interest in nutrition research, her work on meat grown in a lab, and the association between yoghurt consumption and lower risk of colorectal cancer. 

Researchers led by PhD student Raymond Liu have developed a new tool that could help such people navigate more quickly and safely, using nothing but a device they likely already have—a smartphone. 

Economic inequality has skyrocketed in the West since the 1970s, especially in the United States. So why have US politicians been unable to build sustained support for policies of redistribution? 

Is having more control over how we spend our time linked to better health? PhD student Laura Chen investigates. 

Emory University Professor Miriam Udel, PhD ’08, reflects on the power of children’s literature in the modern project of Jewish cultural survival, her passion for language, and a defining lecture delivered after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.