Updates

Mark, the Blog | Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Martyr Mystery

Why are there so few Muslim terrorists?

by Mark Derewicz
Features | Friday, April 27, 2012

Can't Beat the View

Laura Ruel looks at the web through readers’ eyes.

by Margarite Nathe
Features | Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The Little Doll in the Middle

Meet Myron Cohen, the man behind Science magazine’s 2011 Breakthrough of the Year.

by Sarah Creed
Overheard | Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Carolina, quoted

“There is this common wisdom out there that the South remains a rural place dominated by working-class people with no education past high school.” —Ferrel Guillory, in The media’s Southern stereotypes, Salon.com

by Jason Smith
Features | Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Hans and Ferrymon

Hans Paerl has helped ecosystems around the world. But he’s having to work extra hard to protect the Pamlico Sound.

by Mark Derewicz
Features | Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Keeping House

During the mortgage-lending crisis, thousands of low-income borrowers still made their payments on time. Here’s what their lenders did right, and how to keep the goal of homeownership in sight for low- and middle-income families.

by Susan Hardy
Overview | Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Life as Art: A Visual Science Fair

Forty-one faculty and graduate students in the life sciences will showcase their scientific artwork in an exhibit at the North Carolina Botanical Gardens. (April 15 through April 27)

by Susan Hardy
Features | Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Flight Risk

How birds react to shifts in temperature and what this means in a warming world.

by Mark Derewicz
Overheard | Friday, March 9, 2012

Carolina, quoted

President Obama “needs to find every dollar that he can get, because it’s pretty clear that this campaign is going to involve two candidates that will need to have a billion dollars.” —Kareem Crayton, in Obama juggles needs for campaign money, mass appeal, Agence France Presse

by Jason Smith
Mark, the Blog | Thursday, March 8, 2012

A Rebuttal

Standing up for humor, hyperbole, ignorance, and art in writing, interviews, and blogs.

by Mark Derewicz