Andrew Sabisky, a UK government adviser, recently resigned over comments supporting eugenics. Around the same time, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins—best known for his book The Selfish Gene—provoked controversy ...
Social Sciences
Feb 26, 2020
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New research by social scientists at Birmingham City University offers insights into the challenges that incarcerated individuals face as they try to rebuild their lives on the outside—with 81 percent stating they received ...
Social Sciences
Feb 25, 2020
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Rich countries vary a lot when it comes to health and social problems. A comparison of social ills ranging from intentional homicides to obesity rates in 40 rich societies shows that Asian and European countries fare much ...
Social Sciences
Jan 24, 2020
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New research has indicated that water consumption can be reduced by more than 20 percent, significantly more than current policy targets following the installation of meters. Whilst this shows that overall benefits of water ...
Social Sciences
Dec 6, 2019
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Husbands are least stressed when their wives earn up to 40% of household income but they become increasingly uncomfortable as their spouse's wages rise beyond that point and are most stressed when they are entirely economically ...
Social Sciences
Nov 19, 2019
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Diagnoses of mental disorders and drug prescriptions among school-age children have skyrocketed over the last two decades. The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports that 20% of children experience mental disorders—such ...
Education
Sep 2, 2019
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Buying green is getting more and more popular, but is it enough to solve the sustainability problem? Lewis Akenji from the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Finland puts it bluntly:
Environment
Aug 26, 2019
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Many of us do not need to hear any more warnings from the IPCC, David Attenborough or climate activists like Greta Thunberg. We have seen enough to be convinced that limitless economic growth and the globalization of high-consumption ...
Environment
Aug 22, 2019
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It's a sadly familiar image in several developing countries' media reports: people frantically searching the rubble of a collapsed building for survivors.
Engineering
Jun 26, 2019
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A joint study by researchers at the Universities of York and Stirling has found that 90 percent of children in Scotland who go into care when aged five or under have experienced significant abuse and neglect before they enter ...
Social Sciences
Jun 20, 2019
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