"If you were to believe newspapers and dietary advice leaflets, you’d probably think that doctors and nutritionists are the people guiding us through the thicket of what to believe when it comes to food," write Martin Cohen, University of Hertfordshire and Frédéric Leroy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Dec. 11th, 2019)
"US military power does not necessarily imply political influence in countries that have diversified their relationships. The wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen have followed their own courses and overtaken the United States," writes Mariano Aguirre, International Policy Analyst (Dec. 11th, 2019)
"I’ve been prompted by how little progress we’ve made in physicalist approaches to the hard problem of consciousness. You know, integrated information theory, microtubule theory, global workspace theory, and so forth can’t explain a single conscious experience", says Donald Hoffman, University of California, while describing his latest book and where he stands on some of the deepest questions ever posed (Dec. 11th, 2019)
Universities and Colleges should be among the last places where corruption takes place. This story (long read), originally published by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education shows troubling practices (Dec. 11th, 2019)
"In a recent interview with Fox News, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry stated that Donald Trump was chosen by God to be president. He said throughout history God had picked “imperfect people” such as King David or Solomon to lead their people. Perry is not alone. A large number of evangelical Christians in the U.S. believe that God has chosen Donald Trump to advance the kingdom of God on Earth," write Brad Christerson, Biola University and Richard Flory, University of Southern California (Dec. 4th, 2019)
"It shouldn’t be surprising that other animals think," writes David P. Barash, University of Washington (Dec. 4th, 2019)
"The framing of King’s question—that Zuckerberg, not Trump, was the one at the dinner being lobbied—was notable to Financial Times reporter Kadhim Shubber. 'No better example of Facebook’s power than Zuckerberg being asked here whether Trump lobbied him, rather than whether he lobbied Trump,' Shubber tweeted," writes Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams staff writer (Dec. 4th, 2019)
"Increases in lifespan are one of the greatest success stories of modern society. Yet while most of us can expect to live longer," writes James Brown, Aston University (Nov. 27th, 2019)
"Probably the most interesting thing we have learned is how contagious revenge can become, across people and time," says Michele Gelfand, University of Maryland (Nov. 27th, 2019)