A book that criticizes alternative medicine to treat conditions that have names but no criteria is controversial - because it runs up against a supplement and alternative medicine enabled by governments that believe science can't be trusted
Sarkeesian has been the focus of much online hatred since she started her website Feminist Frequency in 2009. Credit: Anita SarkeesianBy Jessamy Gleeson, Swinburne University of TechnologyThree weeks ago, well-known feminist gaming critic Anita Sarkeesian was forced to leave her San Francisco home due to an ongoing tirade of abuse and threats. Members of a vocal minority of online trolls had threatened to kill her parents, drink her blood, and rape her – all while publishing her personal details online.
Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel and cement production. Source: CDIAC, Friedlingstein et al. 2014, Global Carbon Project 2014By Pep Canadell, CSIRO and Michael Raupach, Australian National University
Does this count as homework? Credit: Rob Boudon, CC BYBy Mark Banks, University of Leicester
Is protest pointless or productive? Credit: EPABy Olaf Corry, The Open UniversityIt is set to be one of the largest ever coordinated protests. The People’s Climate March is due to take place in cities all over the world this weekend to try and influence the UN climate summit that follows on September 23. The marches promise to be a major global event, billed by organizers as an “unprecedented mobilization”.
Lord Toast. Credit: Catarina Mota, CC BY-NC-SABy Akshat Rathi, The Conversation and Flora Lisica, The ConversationThe 24th Ig Nobel prizes were announced on September 18th. The prizes annually award scientific research that “first makes people laugh and then makes them think."
Could novels help us fight climate change? Credit: Asian Development Bank/flickrBy Stephanie LeMenager, University of OregonA frail risk analyst rediscovers his inner frontiersman in a devastating flood that hits Manhattan; an insightful rural woman glimpses the grace of god in the revelations of biological science; genetically engineered hominids who purr themselves to wellness inherit a devastated Earth.
Metoera. Credit:Panos Photographia/FlickrBy Steve Ellen, Monash UniversityEveryday life is full of mini-ethical moments. Do you own up to being under charged? Do you push in when the traffic is heavy and you’re running late? Do you hassle your kid’s teacher to get little Jimmie or Jane an advantage?Most of us do our best, but various emotions, motives, and practicalities act to push us to our limits. Sometimes our limits are breached – mine were on a recent tour in Greece.
Don't bank on it. Credit: SabinurceBy Kristine Alexander, University of Vermont
There is never enough of this golden beauty. Credit: bradhigham, CC BYBy Angela White, University of Sheffield
Australia's coast is famous around the world - but rising sea levels are poised to make things a lot less fun. Credit: Adam J.W.C./Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SABy Martin Rice; John Hunter, University of Tasmania; Lesley Hughes, and Will Steffen, Australian National University
You lookin’ at me?Gareth Fuller/PABy Tom Foulsham, University of EssexAre you being recorded? Thanks to the ubiquity of CCTV and camera phones, the answer is more than ever before likely to be “Yes”. Add to this the growth of wearable technology such as Google Glass and people are increasingly exposed to devices that can monitor and record them, whether they realize it or not.
