728 x 90



Latest Posts

Top Authors

  • How to Prevent Election Hacking? Paper Ballots

    How to Prevent Election Hacking? Paper Ballots0

    • November 8, 2017

    Barbara Simons is a female computer scientist, which means she’s in a minority in the male-dominated computer field. But she is also a part of a significant minority of tech minds who think that we ought to go back to paper ballots in order to ensure proper security. Simons, a retired pioneer researcher at IBM

    READ MORE
  • Addiction: Are We All Wrong About Its Causes?

    Addiction: Are We All Wrong About Its Causes?0

    • November 8, 2017

    There is a commercial familiar to anyone who grew up in the 1980s. It involves a white rat in a cage furiously attacking a pill. “Only one drug is so addictive nine out of ten laboratory rats will use it … and use it … and use it,” a raspy voice murmurs, “until dead.” The

    READ MORE
  • Not just about sex: throughout our bodies, thousands of genes act differently in men and women

    Not just about sex: throughout our bodies, thousands of genes act differently in men and women0

    • November 7, 2017

    Most of us are familiar with the genetic differences between men and women. Men have X and Y sex chromosomes, and women have two X chromosomes. We know that genes on these chromosomes may act differently in men and women. But a recent paper claims that beyond just genes on X and Y, a full

    READ MORE
  • Millennial Women Are Ditching the Pill. Here’s Why.

    Millennial Women Are Ditching the Pill. Here’s Why.0

    • November 7, 2017

    In recent days, there has been a fair amount of brouhaha regarding the contraception mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act. While the Obama administration insisted that businesses must offer insurance coverage for contraceptives – even if the business was morally opposed to the idea – the Trump administration reversed this course of action. The

    READ MORE
  • Why G.K. Chesterton Believed America Was ‘Exceptional’

    Why G.K. Chesterton Believed America Was ‘Exceptional’0

    • November 7, 2017

    In recent years there has been much talk about American exceptionalism. Does it—or does it not—exist? Are we truly a unique people—or are we not? Well before all this talk, G.K. Chesterton weighed in on the side of the American exceptionalists. The United States, he wrote, was the only nation “with the soul of a

    READ MORE
  • Current Gun Laws Should Have Made It Impossible for Texas Shooter to Buy Gun

    Current Gun Laws Should Have Made It Impossible for Texas Shooter to Buy Gun0

    • November 7, 2017

    On the morning of Sunday, Nov. 5, Devin Patrick Kelley opened fire on the congregants of First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The attack killed 26 people, including a pregnant woman and a number of children. A man living nearby heard the shots, grabbed his own firearm, and pursued Kelley. Kelley was found dead

    READ MORE