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...
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...
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 –...
$1.1 Billion in Drug, Device Payments to Doctors Not Included in New Federal Database
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Oct. 6, 2014, 6:02 p.m.
The federal government's new database of drug and device industry payments to doctors is even more...
Analysis: Government’s New Doctor Payments Website Worthy of a Recall
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Oct. 1, 2014, 4:45 p.m.
This story was co-published with The New York Times' The Upshot.
If the federal government's new Open...
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...
Ebola: bats get a bad rap when it comes to spreading diseases
By Alexandra Kamins, Colorado Hospital Association; Marcus Rowcliffe, Zoological Society of London, and Olivier Restif, University of Cambridge
In an era flush with vaccines and...
Women volunteers: first to the war zone in 1914
By Toby Thacker, Cardiff University
The volunteer is at the heart of British perceptions of the World War I. We are all familiar with images...
