Science & Society

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?objectid=12217639&ref=twitter Auckland father and lawyer Tim Rainey said the use of essential oils in classrooms could trigger asthma attacks. Photo /…

Two days ago I came across this article in Science Codex. Extremist sympathies more likely in white British and UK-born people which took me to the paper itself: Extremism and common mental illness…

Neil D. Tyson was investigated by Fox and Nat Geo for sexual misconduct, the investigation complete Cosmos and Star Talk will return to the air. This investigation would always have been of…

The U.S. college admissions scandal, where wealthy elites paid to circumvent an arbitrary entrance scoring system at some privileged schools by gaming it, has already led to lawsuits because the…

One Launch of NASA’s Space Launch System will cost at least one billion dollars and only be possible once every two years. Space X falcon heavy cost, at most,  150 million dollars per launch.…

First this site has never been used for missile launching. It has only been used for satellites as part of North Korea’s ambitious civilian space program. They want to become one of the few countries…

Two generations ago, it was normal for kids to play out on the street. But trust in media was high then and sensationalized accounts of kidnappings and white vans and accidents led to helicopter…

A picture is worth a thousand words, and a simple chart of pedestrian deaths is worth 6,227 - that is the number of pedestrian deaths last year, not the length of this article. Last week my…

It is reasonably good news. Kim wanted the US to drop all sanctions in response for dismantling the publicly disclosed plant to make nuclear weapons materials. They weren't ready to do that. The US…

I don't drink much milk now, though I did when I was a kid. I think I eat more cheese than I did then, and that makes sense. We were a poor family on a subsistence farm and cheese is expensive. Milk…