25 years ago, the United Nations laid the foundation for children's rights and protections - at least as part of international theater. The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most ratified…

The Lacey Act, introduced in 1900 by Republican Congressman John F. Lacey of Iowa, was originally designed to stop illegal game across state borders but was then expanded, notably by President Ronald…

Oh, no, wait – it's the 21st century! Carl Guderian By Camilla Nelson, University of Notre Dame Australia It’s official: men are better writers than women. The news came as something of a shock to a…

Recently, I enjoyed the opportunity to solve and implement a simple web interface problem. The result would not be considered profound or unique by Internet professionals, but…

The belief in Washington, D.C. political circles is that if kids have no choice, they will eventually eat whatever they are given. And they will grow to like it. Does that work? In some instances it…

Finns are not more liberal about education because kids don't have to wear shoes, they are really conservative - the last country in Europe to create mandatory education and their spending on it is…

Professor Anne Glover, the first Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the European Commission, has been sacked.  Well, not technically, the European Commission is simply not extending…

There may be disagreement about whether or not telling teenagers to not have sex works but that could be due to puberty. In younger kids, cookie abstinence works just fine. Even the Cookie Monster…

The Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan was released in June of 2014 and is seeking public comments until December 1st so if you want to yell about liberals or Big Oil, you are running out of…

When Ebola was the latest rage in mainstream media (that would be last month - poor people in Africa are so October of 2014) National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins was quick to…