Friday 27 November 2020

Torturing Geniuses

Beth, the protagonist of the TV show The Queen’s Gambit, is not someone you’d want as a friend.





So, Turns Out

There’s actually scientific data liberals are more likely to have mental problems.



Versatile Building Blocks Make Structures With Surprising Mechanical Properties

The subunits could be robotically assembled to produce large, complex objects, including cars, robots, or wind turbine blades.



The Heavy Toll of the Black Belt’s Wastewater Crisis


Many rural households in America don’t have access to safe sewage systems. In Alabama, entrenched poverty and unusual geology have created a public-health disaster.



Thursday 26 November 2020

Why Is Scientific Illiteracy So Acceptable?

Drives me crazy...



China Is Fishing for Trouble at Sea

The Trump administration is taking on China’s illegal catch—and Biden should do the same.




Not Just A Tattoo: Transgenderism Attacks Our Fundamental Humanity


We are a sexually dimorphic species, whether we like it or not.



And That’s Why We’re Not Going Home for Christmas

 New Zealand study details COVID-19 spread on long-haul flight despite tests.



We Need to Protect the Free Speech of Dissident Doctors


The Covid Physician on how we can protect our civil liberties in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.



China Calls Launch A Success As Robotic Spacecraft Heads To Moon

To bring back rocks...



Excellent Idea

 Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of ‘national unity.’



Monday 23 November 2020

Australia’s Trade Clash with China

A lesson in what Beijing’s power really means.




Stellar Missing Link

16-year-old cosmic mystery solved.




‘Autistic’ Boy Can Name Any Car Ever Mad

And makes amazingly lifelike photos with his model collection.



China's Meat Import Suspension

A reminder of Beijing’s ability to inflict economic pain.



When Science Was the Best Show in America


The first US museum was devoted to truth and reason. Then the circus came to town.




Ya Think?

Plan to exclude mental illnesses from assisted-dying criteria prompts legal, moral questions.




When Einstein Tilted at Windmills


The young physicist’s quest to prove the theories of Ernst Mach.



Was 2008 the Year China Triumphed Over the West?


Historians are likely to look back at the financial crash as the turning point in the balance of power.



When Pirates Studied Euclid


How did the sailors of early modern Europe learn to traverse the world’s seas? By going to school and doing maths problems.



The Synchronicity of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung

How the theoretical physicist and analyst came together and then apart.



Kiwiana

 New Zealand offers Biden tips on COVID-19 after successful response.