Health Check: is it normal not to want sex?
Many people aren’t interested in having sex or don’t feel sexual attraction to other people. Is it normal to be like this?
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Federal executions to resume, posing a new test for lethal injection
The promised benefits of lethal injection – a quick, painless death – have never come true. There’s not even agreement about which drugs are best for executions.
A New Democratic Enlightenment?
This is the slightly rewritten text of my address to the opening plenary session, ‘New Enlightenment Neue Aufklärung’, at the European Forum Alpbach, Alpbach, Austria, 28 August 2016. Ladies and Gentlemen…
Fabricating science: discussing fraud can rebuild community confidence and deepen understanding of how science works
It’s an exceptionally rewarding, and also challenging, time to be practising science. Science has never enjoyed the level of public interest it does today thanks to rising education levels and that wonder…
Intolerance on the march: do Brexit and Trump point to global rejection of liberal ideals?
Liberal forces such as free markets, internationalism and tolerance have helped shape the current world yet appear to be on the wane.
Archive documents reveal the US and UK’s role in the dying days of apartheid
The April 1994 election proved to be a watershed for South Africa.
8.7 million species now estimated on Earth (and then some)
An estimated 8.7 million species exist on Earth, according to a paper published today in PLoS Biology. The figure is based on a new validated analytical technique that, it’s said, significantly narrows…
Plunging pound and crumbling confidence: How the new UK government stumbled into a political and financial crisis of its own making
Liz Truss took over as prime minister with an ambitious plan to cut taxes by the most since 1972 – investors balked after it wasn’t clear how she would pay for it
Burn after reading: a short history of arson
We’ve been burning things for hundreds of thousands of years. Australian Aboriginals practised fire-stick farming to regenerate the soil and drive out animals for hunting. Yet manmade fires not only enable…
Can we learn from Thucydides’ writings on the Trump of ancient Athens?
The Athenian politician Cleon was one of the earliest demagogues. An effective, if vulgar speaker, he made extravagant promises and delivered extravagant accusations.
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