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By Mark Pierce
Is It Immoral To Oppose The Use Of Pesticides?
In times of social rancor and strife, most will fight each other, but societies are saved by those who think about the bigger issue.There is a lesson humans could learn from wasps. Polistes canadensis
wasps are more like China than a democracy, so when their ruler dies, power struggles and social turmoil result.>
Though the development of agriculture 10,000 years ago is what made humans the apex predator, a new analysis reveals that the stage was set long before farming became science. Excavations at Border Cave in the Lebombo Mountains, on the border of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, and Swaziland, show that >
You may have read that Asian cultures respect the elderly more than Europe but Asian senior citizens may not agree. However, it may not be that young people have gotten less respectful, it could be that young people are wealthier than in the past. And that makes them lonelier.Over the last 40 years, the wealth of>
The Supreme Court recently issued another ruling that seeks to end racial discrimination. most recently in specially-created political districts. What has not been an issue, because it was not obvious like universities and Louisiana politics, is how grants get chosen.A new study says that there was a component of>
The Posthumous Memoir of Ignaz VenetzThis memoir was published by the Swiss Natural Sciences Society, shortly after the death of Ignaz Venetz, to honor his great contribution to science.For background information, please see part 1 of this article -The Posthumous Memoir Of Ignaz Venetz and Ignaz Venetz>
A train is heading toward five people who can't escape its path and only you are close enough to do anything. You can reroute the train onto different tracks with only one person along that route.Would you do it?A team of Michigan State University researchers recently put participants in a 3-D setting and>
