by jstewardfree | Oct 7, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Jacqueline Harvey | The expansion of physician-assisted suicide from the West to the East coast makes its legalization in other neighboring states much more likely. On May 20, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed “The Patient Choice and Control at the End of Life...
by jstewardfree | Oct 3, 2013 | Course and Scholarship Updates
Are there limits to what the scientific method and discovery can teach us? Does science require insight from outside the natural sciences? AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS. Sign in to www.freethinku.com to learn more about these course experiences, which...
by jstewardfree | Jun 3, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Daily Mail Reporter | Men who are strong are more likely to take a right-wing stance, while weaker men support the welfare state, researchers claim. Their study discovered a link between a man’s upper-body strength and their political views. Scientists from Aarhus...
by jstewardfree | May 17, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Mark J. Perry | No, there’s been a massive global drop in human fertility that has gone largely unnoticed by the media. The chart above shows the significant, downward trend in the world’s Total Fertility Rate (births per woman) over the last half century, which...
by jstewardfree | May 11, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Troy Camplin | Reading fiction opens the door to innovation. Shortly after clocks were introduced to Japan in the sixteenth century, Japanese inventors used the principles underlying the clock’s movements to create robots. True, those robots were merely mechanical...
