Telling the time, using a knife and fork, manners: what should be taught in the home and what in the school? Shutterstock By Pauline Lysaght, University of Wollongong Who taught you to tell the time…

Climate science is right – but it isn't winning. NASA, CC BY By Mathis Hampel, University of East Anglia Scientists tell us the world is warming and that a climate catastrophe is imminent. They’re…

Throughout the European Union, environmental elites have to scramble a bit to rationalize their anti-GMO stance while trying not to sound silly. That's not easy. How can modern GMOs be Frankenfood…

The government's ad promoting proposed changes to higher education. Is it legal? And if so, should it be? Youtube screen grab, CC BY-SA By Andrew Hughes, Australian National University The federal…

Hurricane Sandy pummeled cities along the east coast in 2012, causing billions of dollars in damage. Shutterstock By Delavane Diaz, Stanford University Climate change is as much an economic problem…

Some groups want to label foods that contain anything created with modern genetic modification. Yet the previous generation of genetically modified foods, using mutagenesis, can be labeled…

Can the promise of free community college be delivered? President Obama at Pellissippi State College in Knoxville, TN Kevin Lamarque/Reuters By Donald E. Heller, Michigan State University Last week,…

Memorizing the ions is one of the most challenging part of mastering the basics of inorganic nomenclature.  As I agree with Gerhand, Lind (1992), students of chemistry should master the naming…

Funding for institutions of higher education in Norway is partially determined by how many publications their employees produce. While there are already six troubling …

Poverty causes more deaths than climate change. Otis Historical Archives, CC BY By Andrew Papworth, University College London Climate change will cause all sorts of problems for humans in the future…