Tag: life & news
Who owns the moon?
By Saskia Vermeylen, Lancaster University
Whether you’re into mining, energy or tourism, there are lots of reasons to explore space. Some “pioneers” even believe humanity’s...
Karma may have a role to play in career progression, but...
By Dulini Fernando, University of Warwick and Laurie Cohen, University of Nottingham
For those who might have missed it, this was Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s...
Bugs as treatment: coming to a clinic near you…
By Paul Bertrand, RMIT University and Anna Walduck, RMIT University
When you’re sick, you want the most effective treatment to help get you back on...
From galactic pile-ups, stars are born: a crash course in clusters
By Nick Seymour, Curtin University
Clusters of galaxies have back-stories worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster: their existences are marked by violence, death and birth, arising...
We don’t know if God exists, but we should keep asking
By Graham Oppy, Monash University
Disputes about the existence of God — like most disputes about religion, politics, and sex — almost always generate heat...
King hits: young men, masculinity and violence
By Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney
The recent outcry in Sydney about “alcohol-fuelled violence” has many people asking whether young men are out of control,...
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...
Does the age of online education herald the death of academics?
By Chris Hackley, Royal Holloway
In the mid-1980s as a further education lecturer I was mocked by some more traditional colleagues for using “lantern slides”,...
EXPLORING NATURE
LA fires showed how much neighborliness matters for wildfire safety –...
Elizabeth A. Logan, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and William Deverell, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
