Nowadays, if you are caught distributing any Schedule 1 drugs in the United States at first offence, you would face a sentence of a..
As our vast matrix of information and understanding about the universe grows, it seems that our significance is shrinking. Science and Philosophy have greatly pushed..
“The history of life on earth is mainly the effect of wild exuberance; the dominant event is the development of luxury, the production of..
The so-called “Green Revolution” was a massive shift in agricultural practices that began in the 1930s and found its culmination in the 1960s, by which..
Conversations on nuclear power have frequently been coloured by extremes: speculative hope for the future, staged against fear stemming from the past. Long now the..
Depuis 10 ans, le milieu scientifique assiste à l’essor de plus en plus rapide d’un phénomène inédit : le biohacking, ou biologie participative. Biologistes professionnels,..
Michel Foucault, the French social theorist and historian of ideas, lectured at length on political power schemes: in feudal aristocracy and absolute monarchies, kings and..
Analogies overly animate the urban life. The city can compare to an ecosystem, a beehive, a large star, and since the growth of biology..
“We don’t have a lot of time on this Earth! We weren’t meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to..
An old adage holds that the only constant is change. This certainly seems true in climatic terms – as humanity’s ecological footprint grows, the unfortunate..
Despite their lack of scientific backing, horoscopes continue to appear in newspapers and magazines throughout the world with substantial audiences. In the following video, Chad..
Nothing ruins a joke quite like explaining it, and yet here I am ready to do just that. Being funny is not easy. Despite a..
Utopias are an expression of a new social order, political system, human behavior experiment or satire. Architects, thinkers, philosophers and urban planners have all imagined..
At risk of being called a heretic by my 20-something year old peers, I’m not a fan of Chipotle (or any other knockoff build-your-burrito assembly..
“Well, coding is obsolete. Why teach it? ” My professor sighed as she reclined in her seat. With hands clasped behind her head, she looked..
There’s an interesting and troubling trend we can observe in the media. Someone somewhere is dead-set on dividing the world into two camps; what causes..
Imagine a criminal is on trial for committing a crime, and his lawyer testifies to said individual’s innocence on the basis that the fundamental forces..
The title to this article is based on a saying which is far from new. In fact the original version of this quote dates from..
Let’s talk about diet. When someone brings up the question of what you eat, you drop your gaze and mutter, “Yeah I’ve been meaning to..
The emergence of the student-farm movement goes beyond changing individuals’ core values and relationships with food; its context within academic institutions questions the sociological role..
Innovations in software, smart materials, and technologies, particularly the development of 3-D printing, is greatly influencing architectural design. Ground breaking research emerging from these fields..