The “intent to treat” format does not alleviate selection problems within the “intent to treat” group.
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The most revealing and important line in Angelina Jolie’s OpEd in the New York Times today is not the one in which she reveals she has had her breasts removed […]
The reason that eating and everything that involves is taboo is that it’s something we have in common with animals.
I think a lot of people stereotype generous and helpful people as pushovers, as weak, as not tough and driven enough to be successful. And I think that is a myth that we really need to break down.
Under Helene’s leadership, CARE has strengthened its focus on the intersection of poverty and the environment.
In a world created by hackers those who can’t hack are the underclass.
If you thought that random samples of your DNA collected in public spaces could never be used as part of a futuristic genetic surveillance program, think again. In what has […]
The gun debate in America may have “jumped the shark” with yesterday’s Mother’s Day Parade shooting in New Orleans that left 19 wounded, including two children. When something as universally […]
While mainland Chinese companies already export inexpensive goods like seat belts, wipers and radios, their native engineers are young and lack the knowledge necessary to develop cars year in and year out.
Dull Flag, Tongue of Gangsta and dozens more strange toponyms dot these windswept Scottish archipelagoes
Every minute costs two rubles, which means an hour costs 120 rubles ($3.80). For their money patrons get coffee, tea, toast, biscuits, and as much as they want.
One software developer is doing just that, via a Kickstarter campaign offering digital footprints of various sizes for as little as US$2.
The only way China will become a threat, I believe, is if we believe it will be a threat.
Why should you only have sex with the person you are in a relationship with?
New research shows that people presented with an indicator showing the strength of their password created stronger passwords that were also memorable. However, the evaluation method itself is flawed.
The image above maps the location of more than 150,000 geocoded tweets that contained words deemed to be racist, homophobic or that targeted people with disabilities.
When we teach people how to catch liars, it takes us 32 hours. And there are over 30 different things you look for. I’ll tell you a couple of them […]
What you remember from your high school teachers is not so much the curriculum, you remember the way of being that teacher possessed.
There is widespread acknowledgement that persisting in doing what we’re doing right now cannot work.
And so in putting together a playlist of videos as part of an original MOCAtv series called “YouTube Curated By,” Kasper selected some moments of real-life risk-taking and spontaneity.
The Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield just ended his command of the International Space Station, but not before the media-savvy commander issued a fitting sign-off: the first music video from space.
In some (not all) cases, lower back pain may actually stem from bacterial infection.
Amid the controversy surrounding 3D printed firearms, writer Cory Doctorow fears that the larger discussions regarding regulation of new and potentially problematic technologies will be clouded over by arguments over gun rights.
A couple of years ago Dr Mirjam Tuk won an IgNobel prize for the paper “Inhibitory Spill-Over: Increased Urinating Urgency Facilitates Impulse Control in Unrelated Domains” in Psychological Science. Tuk […]
One of the country’s leading service providers has announced plans to apply the same kinds of data access limits to its Internet customers as it does to mobile users.
Estimates suggest that nearly a quarter of the world’s youth, aged 15 to 24, are out of work. While some do not seek work for cultural reasons, most find their skills are mismatched to the economy.
Even securing the most basic humanitarian rights for Syrian refugees would require committing tens of thousands of ground troops and escalating the conflict to global levels, say security experts.
Marriage has become a temporary link-up of working people who choose to spend some free time together. The model is not well-adapted to down times, and both parents and children lose out.
Mike Taylor over at the Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week blog created the wonderful flowchart above to help researchers decide whether to post in an open access journal. A few months […]
Update 13/05/13 12PM: The Guardian have now corrected the article to place David Eagleman’s quote in appropriate context. 1.55PM: The paragraph has now been cut completely with the following note “A paragraph that […]