Science & Society

Air Asia 8501 - Tail Section Raised The tail section of Air Asia 8501 has now been raised.  Detik News reports that Army Commander General Moeldoko cannot confirm whether the FDR or black box is…

Social attitudes are reinforcing the negative beliefs towards people who self harm, according to an analysis of the life stories of people who self-harm and who were also diagnosed with a…

David Pope's cartoon posted on Twitter. David Pope By Robert Phiddian, Flinders University Cartoonists and satirists in “the West” are confronted with the risks of their expressive freedom today as a…

The mythology among the people who really care about what is happening on the left or the right is that the people opposite them are uneducated and being exploited by elites. The opposite is true:…

To Tolkien, the machine represents a means to attain power over others. His orcs -- deformed and ugly creatures, whose hands are sometimes replaced with weapons -- embody this lust for power. LOTR…

Air Asia 8501 - Some Factual Information "Based on the available data regarding the location of the lost aircraft, weather is a factor in the triggering of the incident. The most likely weather…

I think it's time for a little snow - C.P.Snow, that is.   Charles Percy Snow was an English physical chemist, novelist and civil servant. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of…

Ready-to-eat desserts such as cakes, cookies, pies, doughnuts, and pastries add a significant amount of energy, sugar, and saturated fat to Americans' diets, making them a strategic target for…

2014: the year crystallography went mainstream. CSIRO, CC BY-SA By Mark Lorch, University of Hull ’Tis the season for listicles rounding up the stories of the year. So with, the authority vested in…

A solid 12 years after most of its audience stopped watching "The West Wing", I decided to start - all 154 episodes. In the interest of transparency, I disclose I skipped two - one was a…