Tag: life and news
From 60s counterculture to big business: the politics of festivals
By Roxanne Yeganegy, Leeds Beckett University
Today, British music festivals are big business. So you’d be forgiven for assuming that they’d morphed into mere simulations...
Why companies have little incentive to invest in cybersecurity
By Benjamin Dean, Columbia University
Editor’s note: US President Barack Obama is seeking US$14 billion to tackle it. The UK wants to build a start-up...
The perfect cup of coffee boils down to four factors
By Don Brushett
Welcome to the second instalment in our series Chemistry of Coffee, where we unravel the delicious secrets of one of the most...
Metabolomics: wine and cheese, curing disease … no doping please
By Darren Saunders, Garvan Institute and Rae-Anne Hardie, Garvan Institute
Rapid developments in tools to study complex interactions are transforming biology and biomedical research.
A series...
Pi Day is silly, but π itself is fascinating and universal
By Daniel Ullman, George Washington University
Math students everywhere will be eating pies in class this week in celebration of what is known as Pi...
Dunkin’ Donuts ditches titanium dioxide – but is it actually harmful?
By Andrew Maynard, University of Michigan
In response to pressure from the advocacy group As You Sow, Dunkin’ Brands has announced that it will be...
Walmart’s pay raise highlights how poor we’ve all become
By Mechele Dickerson, University of Texas at Austin
Walmart recently did something that will help its employees, which may very well benefit all lower- and...
The compound behind all those stories about red wine being good...
By Mohit Kumar Jolly, Rice University
If you’re a teetotaller, your friends have likely tried to convince you to taste red wine by swearing on...
EXPLORING NATURE
Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels,...
Ramesh Agarwal, Washington University in St. Louis
As AI data centers spring up across the country, their energy demand...
