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Boeing 747 AAIB Accident Report Reveals Electrical FailuresAn accident report published April 11 2014 by the AAIB - the UK's Air Accidents Investigation Branch - reveals that on August 17 2012 a…

When you have been around as long as Harvard, and your library contains 15 million books, you are bound to have a few that are bound in human flesh. Wait, what? Yes, an interesting article by Samuel…

MH370 Transcript - Official Release Malaysian authorities have released the transcript of communications between flight MH370 and ground.  Unfortunately, most media outlets reporting this news…

If there is one thing wealthy elites across the developed world share in common, it is increasingly denying vaccines and genetically modified foods. One organic food marketer is laying it right on…

We often think of April 1st as more of a modern event, because it's sort of stupid and we think of our ancestors as being more serious.   Not so. Even the eminent biologist Charles Darwin got…

The reboot of Cosmos was on the must-see television list for many; it is a prime-time non-fiction science program, with one of the best hosts in science media, a generous budget, airing on 10…

Whistleblowing - Why I Love the Sound of a Whistle According to an official U.K. Government source: Whistleblowing is when a worker reports suspected wrongdoing at work. Officially this is called…

Suspect Object Identified? News of a mystery object washed up on Haa Alif atoll Baarah southern beach has been wrongly linked to the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Ailines Flight MH370. It…

Who is to blame for the latest weekly decline in Cosmos ratings? The Walking Dead, NCAA basketball games, a mass exodus due to its opening effort to be culturally in-your-face? There is always going…

In the absence of any evidence for why different people perform differently in school - other than that people are different - pundits have invented everything from genetic math anxiety to stereotype…