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Book Review: Galileo’s Children
Examining the never-ending struggle between science and superstition and the moral dilemmas it can create.
Read More »Good School Gone Bad — Naughty Even!
Suspensions follow an incident brought about by a lack of education. Does this mean more education? No, more rules.
Read More »Book Review: Discovering Dorothea
If you come across information your subject would not have wanted known to posterity, what should you do with it?
Read More »Viruses and Super Bugs: A Reasonable Solution
Be reasonable, what's more important; the health of your loved ones or the lives of some animals and insects?
Read More »A Russian Princess, a Lot of Science, and a Bit of Sex
Ekaterina Dashkova was a pioneering science administrator and linguist. So she's best known as Catherine the Great's "tester" of men.
Read More »Cancer, Okay. Sex, BAD!
Leave it to conservatives to align the miracle of a cervical cancer vaccine with their fear of sex.
Read More »NAFTA: Water Down The Drain
Does it sound like we can spare any of our water?
Read More »Marijuana Improves Memory
High doses of cannabinoids promote(s) the generation of neuron growth in the hippocampuses of rats.
Read More »Study Backs Teen Access to Confidential Reproductive Health Services
There’s what’s right and what’s real, and much of the debate about reproductive rights in this country, especially in regard to minors, centers around the relative priorities assigned to “right” and “real” and the government’s appropriate role in each. A review of public policy, research, and public/professional opinion from the …
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