Tag: lifeandnews
Warming, decanting and swirling: do they make wine taste better?
By Alex Russell, University of Sydney
Do you inspect the appearance of a wine before swirling it around the glass (holding the stem, naturally)? Inhale...
Vladimir Putin and Russia’s incredible shrinking ruble
By Benjamin J Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara
Russia’s currency is in free fall. Since mid-year, the incredible shrinking ruble has lost close to...
Confucian thought and China’s environmental dilemmas
By Ian Matthew Miller, Harvard University and George Yin, Harvard University
Conventional wisdom holds that China - the world’s most populous country - is an...
My brain made me do it, but does that matter?
By Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Duke University
Imagine that Brian promises to drive you to the airport but never shows up, and you miss your flight. When...
How Arkansas is expanding Medicaid without actually expanding Medicaid
By Colleen M. Grogan, University of Chicago
Upon the signing of the Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010, the public was promised that all...
Could leading anti-malarial be used as an experimental treatment for bowel...
By Sanjeev Krishna, St George's, University of London
While the medical world is transfixed by the urgency of finding and testing new potential treatments for...
What will the next financial crisis look like – and are...
By Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley
The subprime crisis and the subsequent failure of Lehman Brothers came as such a shock – and the...
Codebreaking has moved on since Turing’s day, with dangerous implications
By Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University
We have always been been intrigued by keeping secrets and uncovering the secrets of others, whether that’s childhood...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
