Hector and the Search for Colour
By Lauren Rosewarne, University of Melbourne
Opening in Australia on October 23A six dollar ticket and 114 minutes of my time felt like a fair...
Conservatives’ crack team of superteachers will need the patience of Gandhi
By James Williams, University of Sussex
As a theme for Hollywood filmmakers, the crack team of experts sent in where others dare to tread to...
Head of Flawed Effort to ID Missing Soldiers Loses Job
by Megan McCloskey ProPublica, Oct. 3, 2014, 10:32 a.m.
The longtime scientific director of the problem-ridden Pentagon agency charged with identifying the remains of service...
How Much of Your Data Would You Trade for a Free Cookie?
by Lois Beckett ProPublica, Oct. 1, 2014, 12 p.m.
This story was co-published with Mashable.
In a highly unscientific but delicious experiment last weekend, 380 New...
Our First Dive Into the New Open Payments System
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Sep. 30, 2014, 9:47 p.m.
The federal government unveiled data Tuesday detailing 4.4 million payments made to doctors and teaching hospitals...
Boundaries of illegality blur as Hong Kong protests rumble on
By Surya Deva, City University Hong Kong
We often think of the distinction between legal and illegal as a matter of black and white –...
Why climate ‘uncertainty’ is no excuse for doing nothing
By Richard Pancost, University of Bristol and Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol
Former environment minister Owen Paterson has called for the UK to scrap its...
Violence against women can be stopped if everyone is invested in preventing abuse
By Tanya Abramsky, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Domestic violence against women is a global human rights and public health emergency. Recent estimates...






















