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
There are numerous methods for maintaining electricity supply when renewables are in the grid. Credit: Johan Douma/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SABy Anthony Vassallo, University of SydneyThe recent review of the Australian Renewable Energy Target has once again raised the issue of the “unreliability” of some renewable power sources such as wind and solar power.
A Ripper murder, Illustrated Police news, c. 1888.By Rosalind Crone, The Open UniversityA panic erupted in Britain 126 years ago. At daybreak on Saturday September 8, the mutilated body of Annie Chapman, a prostitute, had been found in the back yard of 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields. Her injuries and the removal of some of her abdominal organs led investigators and journalists to link Chapman’s murder with that of another woman, only a week earlier.
Or abandon hope? Credit: chrisdorneyBy Tim Crook, Goldsmiths, University of LondonThe Old Bailey’s Central Criminal Court is an Edwardian building that bears the inscription “Defend the children of the poor and Punish the wrongdoer.” An Italian visitor more than 100 years ago suggested it should be replaced with an aphorism from Dante’s Inferno: “Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter here.”
By Rob Brooks, UNSW Australia.Settle in for a long read. Over the coming weeks you will be bombarded by shorter, snappier pieces about a controversy inflaming the front where evolutionary and social psychology meet. I’ve touched on this controversy already, and promised you more. Here’s that more, in 2,300 words of detail … rather too long for a column, I know.Still with me? Thanks.
A protest against the killing of journalists by the Islamic State. Credit: Mast Irham/EPABy Kevin McDonald, Middlesex University
Dora grows up. Credit: Lisa West Photography, CC BY-NC-NDBy Bruce Fuller, University of California, Berkeley
Ideally lollipops, cookies, sugar-sweetened drinks, potato chips and processed meats will never appear in your shopping cart. Want to stack the nutrition odds in your favor? The key is good food so here are five things to never let into your shopping trolley: candies, cookies, sugar-sweetened drinks, potato chips and processed meats.Known as discretionary foods, all five are high in either added sugars, saturated fat or salt. Discretionary foods provide calories but not many nutrients.
Critical mass of editors could help solve the puzzle.Credit: bastique, CC BY-SABy Mark Graham, University of Oxford
Eyes – windows on the soul?Credit: Ángelo González, CC BY-SABy Tracy Long-Sutehall, University of Southampton
Soon to be grown for ornamental use only.Credit: Mark Nesbitt and Samuel Delwen, CC BYBy Luc Henry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
Feeling comfortable in our own skin when it comes to clothes is more complicated than just “being yourself”. Image: Flickr, Maria MorriBy Rosie Findlay, University of Sydney.
The word morality makes people uneasy – but not ethics. What is the basis of a moral education? Credit: Flood G/Flickr, CC BY-NC-NDBy Patrick Stokes, Deakin University
