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Bearing Witness: Why It Might Be Ethical To Watch A Mass Murderer's Execution
Near the end of World War II, General George Patton forced German citizens to visit the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp to bear witness to what they had enabled. An ethicist debates that and two other reasons it might be right to watch Nidal Hassan die.
The Conversation Mon, 10/12/2026 - 21:19 Categories Philosophy & EthicsStudy explores why Indigenous communities may accept oil extraction despite its harms
AI Is Making MRI Smarter: But It May Also Be Changing What We See
Magnetic resonance imaging has always involved a trade-off. Clinicians want sharper images, finer anatomical detail and more information about tissue, but acquiring that information takes time.
Mark Pierce Sun, 10/11/2026 - 22:50 Categories Clinical ResearchAI Is Making MRI Smarter: But It May Also Be Changing What We See
Magnetic resonance imaging has always involved a trade-off. Clinicians want sharper images, finer anatomical detail and more information about tissue, but acquiring that information takes time.
Mark Pierce Sun, 10/11/2026 - 22:48 Categories Clinical ResearchLeaf Them On The Ground: Benefit More By Doing Less Yardwork
Every autumn, homeowners and gardeners tend to engage in a familiar ritual. As trees shed their leaves, people drag out rakes, leaf blowers and lawn bags to strip their yards bare before winter arrives.
The Conversation Sun, 10/11/2026 - 10:28 Categories EnvironmentHolidate Science: Relationship Differences Between Gay and Heterosexual Men
Men may be men but gay and heterosexual men express differences about relationships when it comes to perceived stability, attachment anxiety, and avoidance.
News Fri, 10/09/2026 - 12:40 Categories PsychologyThe Wondrous Radiacode 110
Yesterday I was delighted to receive in my mailbox another radiation spectrometer for testing, the Radiacode 110.
Tommaso Dorigo Fri, 10/09/2026 - 08:01 Categories PhysicsFeeling confident about a relationship’s future may be linked to romantic attachment
194 Year Old Tortoise DNA Shows Lifestyle Diseases Accelerate Aging
A new analysis of Aldabra tortoise DNA shows what scientists have long argued; if humans don't smoke, drink alcohol, or get obese we age better.
News Wed, 10/07/2026 - 14:11 Categories Genetics & Molecular BiologySoviet Well To Hell - How A Teacher Punked A Whole TV Network
In 1989, the communist dictatorship oddly named Union of Soviet Socialist Republics reached the extent of a third giant hole in the Arctic Circle, Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3, where they'd been drilling for 19 years. It clocked in at nearly 8 miles deep.
Hank Campbell Tue, 10/06/2026 - 18:03 Categories Random ThoughtsMajor HER2+ breast cancer trial identifies factors associated with pathologic complete response to less intensive chemotherapy
ICE Crackdowns Saved Money On Healthcare In California
A silver lining for California politicians panicking about the federal government no longer paying the state to give free healthcare to illegal immigrants is that there may be fewer of them using ERs
Hank Campbell Mon, 10/05/2026 - 11:34 Categories Public Health