New weapon to fight crime
This friendly weapon does not kill “Among all poultry, geese [are known] for being extremely vigilant and having excellent hearing,” Zhang Quansheng, a police chief in Xinjiang’s Shawan county, told...
View ArticleHarvard University offers free online course on the Fundamentals of Neuroscience
I think I could put this here. Anyway, as title says, Harvard University offers a completely free online course on the Fundamentals of Neuroscience, with a certificate for successfully completing. All...
View ArticleSome more free online courses from top Universities
Or 1150 free online courses precisely. You can get audio and video courses from the world’s leading universities: Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, Yale, MIT, Berkeley, etc....
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Pale Blue Dot
Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5... Pale Blue Dot
View ArticleWhat is the net effect of religion?
I Posted here rather than in a religious forum because I consider this issue to be more related to psychology, sociology, & politics than religion. I think the net effect is bad. Historically, it...
View ArticleClimate-gate
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...82774.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703499404574559630382048494.html?mod=googlenews_wsj...
View ArticleUniversity degrees become "irrelevant" to employers
This article claims that university degrees become "irrelevant" to big employers. The move apparently comes as smaller employers are shifting away from hiring graduates or university students,...
View ArticleMIT dean starting new university from scratch
According to this source Christine Ortiz is taking a leave from her prestigious post as a professor and dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to start a radical, new nonprofit university...
View Articlesymbolism of the colosseum
http://sabotagetimes.com/life/slave...why-the-romans-were-an-appalling-civilisation http://listverse.com/2014/01/15/10-cruel-and-unusual-facts-about-animals-in-the-roman-colosseum/ What is wrong with...
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This made me f%$#^& so mad!
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-sumatran-elephant-leg-severed-rope.html Sumatran elephant found with leg almost severed by rope February 19, 2016 Warning: Some viewers may find the following photograph...
View ArticleNegative citations are important to scientific progress
Having your work mentioned in somebody else's research is an important way for scholars to build their academic reputations. Citing others' work is also important to the credibility of new research....
View ArticleStatisticians issue warning over misuse of P values
P values are commonly used to test (and dismiss) a 'null hypothesis', which generally states that there is no difference between two groups, or that there is no correlation between a pair of...
View ArticleUsing heavy metal music to promote scientific thinking in the classroom
Heavy metal music may not be something typically covered in an introductory psychology textbook, but it has a long history of unique instances that are directly related to psychology. There are many...
View ArticleCould AI radically transform our education system for the better?
Artificial intelligence should be used to provide children with one-to-one tutoring to improve their learning and monitor their well-being, academics have argued. One-to-one tutoring has long been...
View ArticleBiologists speed up scientific progress by going rogue and publishing...
On Feb. 29, Carol Greider of Johns Hopkins University became the third Nobel Prize laureate biologist in a month to do something long considered taboo among biomedical researchers: She posted a report...
View ArticleWhy we abandoned space exploration in favor of dwelling in dark ages?
During the 60s and 70s almost everything and everyone was inspired by space: science, technology, art, design, culture... It was common thought that in the first years of 21st century we'd have at...
View ArticleMaths and reading skills found to be 75 per cent genetic
Families, teachers and schools had a much more modest contribution when explaining the difference in academic performance of children in the same grade or class. The majority of difference between...
View ArticleWhat is wrong with this world...
that there is a well followed weekly line up of Football programming but not a weekly science lecture drawing an equal portion of pageantry and interest? What is wrong with this planet that it would go...
View ArticleCan democracy last?
*********If this is the wrong section of the forum I apologize and ask a GM move it************* So it has been a couple years this question has been on my mind, every since I read an article about it,...
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