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Learning Through Student Feedback
By Mark Pierce
Halloween Science: Your Ancestors May Have Eaten...
Pessimism Makes The Headlines But The World Is...
Epidemiologists Blame 15th Century Science For...
Is It Immoral To Oppose The Use Of Pesticides?
As we lick our Valentine card envelopes and slip into something more comfortable, it’s a good time to ponder our sexual relationships.>
"Le Roman de la Rose" (The Romance of the Rose) was started in 1230 and completed around 1280. It is a medieval French poem styled as an allegorical dream vision and some parts that were later removed are quite steamy.Its 22,000 lines describe the attempts of a courtier to woo his beloved. It was a medieval blockbuster>
Chronic pain is reported by over 20 percent of the global population but there is no scientific determination of what that even means.There are metrics but standard 0-to-10 scales and questionnaires are subjective and basically only useful for justifying treatments to insurance companies, they are clinically not much>
Nobody likes to wait in line.
Whether you are sitting in your car waiting to reach the toll booths, on a
plane waiting to disembark along with the other passengers, or in a queue at
the ticket office, you may experience a range of feelings ranging from perplexity
(“What am I doing here?”) to impatience (“Why>
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>
Cosmologist Sean Carroll is one of many who have recently answered the annual question posed by Edge.org, which this year was: What scientific idea is ready for retirement? Sean, whom I’ve met at the Naturalism workshop he organized not long ago, and for whom I have the highest respect both as a scientist and as>
