2019-03-09 13:10
Lessons from ‘Spider-Man’: How video games could change college science education
The new ‘Spider-Man’ video game isn’t just fun and games – it’s a… Read More
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2019-03-07 19:23
Why don’t big companies keep their computer systems up-to-date?
It’s not so easy to keep up with technology.alphaspirit/Shutterstock.comDouglas C. Schmidt, Vanderbilt University… Read More
2019-03-02 22:29
Drug and Device Makers Pay Thousands of Docs with Disciplinary Records
Pharmaceutical and medical device companies are continuing to pay doctors as promotional speakers and expert advisers… Read More
2019-03-02 17:02
Scientists have a word for studying the post-truth world: agnotology
Janna Rose, Grenoble École de Management (GEM) and Marcos Barros, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
As we… Read More
2019-03-01 20:44
The post AMAZING WATER TRICK appeared first on PONDERWALL Read More
2019-02-24 12:23
Civilization VI: Gathering Storm shows video games can make us think seriously about climate change
Firaxis / Civ VINoam Obermeister, University of Cambridge and Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda, Uni… Read More
2019-02-23 22:17
Could consciousness all come down to the way things vibrate?
What do synchronized vibrations add to the mind/body question?agsandrew/Shutterstock.comTam Hunt, University of Califor… Read More
2019-02-22 22:13
Endangered species could be saved from extinction by mathematical models – here’s how
A critically endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle.Shutterstock/JB ManningFernando Colc… Read More
2019-02-21 00:08
Women are better than men at the free throw line
Larry M. Silverberg, North Carolina State University
As basketball season comes into full swing, consider another competition – the one… Read More
2019-02-20 23:23
How Big Pharma is hindering treatment of the opioid addiction epidemic
Paul Wright, in treatment for opioid addiction in June 2017 at the Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic in Youngstown… Read More
2019-02-17 21:54
Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize
Lise Meitner was left off the publication that eventually led to a Nobel Prize for her colleague.Timoth… Read More
2019-02-17 10:04
Barracking, sheilas and shouts: how the Irish influenced Australian English
The Warrnambool potato harvest of 1881.State Library of VictoriaHoward Manns, Monash University and Kate Burridge… Read More
2019-02-16 14:10
Cyber spies for hire: efforts to control cyber weapons ignore the agents who use them
Maksim Shmeljov/Shutterstock
Alexi Drew, King’s College London
Reports of malicious and targeted… Read More
2019-02-16 13:21
The myth of the disappearing books
Simone Natale, Loughborough University and Andrea Ballatore, Birkbeck, University of London
After years of sales growth, major publishers reported a fall i… Read More
2019-02-11 21:59
Can bees do maths? Yes – new research shows they can add and subtract
Can we have a count of all the honeycomb cells please?from www.shutterstock.com Scarlett Howard, RMIT Un… Read More
2019-02-11 21:59
Bees Can Perform Basic Math Including Addition And Subtraction
Can we have a count of all the honeycomb cells please?from www.shutterstock.com Scarlett Howard, RMIT University; Adrian Dyer… Read More
2019-02-08 21:57
New Caledonian crows smart enough to plan three steps ahead to solve tricky problem
More than 620 million years of evolution separate crows from humans, but the birds show that the… Read More
2019-01-30 20:55
By David Armstrong, ProPublica.
Not content with billions of dollars in profits from the potent painkiller OxyContin, its maker explored expanding into an “attractive market” fu… Read More
2019-01-28 22:06
The post CLANDESTINE EMPLOYMENT OF INDIANS IN ITALY appeared first on PONDERWALL Read More
2019-01-28 21:42
Call that a weapon? Playing Fortnite, a web-based multiplayer survival game.Shutterstock/Lenscap Photography Steven Conway, Swinburne University of Technology
The online videogame F… Read More
2019-01-27 14:06
by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica.
This story was originally published by ProPublica.
Newly released documents show the lead detective in an Elkhart… Read More
2019-01-27 13:26
Joshua Chou, University of Technology Sydney
The world is still celebrating the historic landing of China’s Chang’e-4 on the far side of the moon on January 3. This week, China a… Read More
2019-01-26 22:16
There’s a very good reason for those leg hairs.Flickr/Hamish Irvine, CC BY-SAJonas Wolff, Macquarie University
Curious Kids is a series for children. You can send your questi… Read More
2019-01-23 21:20
People who become blind later in life do know what it means to see, and unless forgotten, they do have visual memories; It is therefore not unexpected that their dream reports contain repor… Read More
2019-01-13 19:40
Scale models of rockets at China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation’s booth at the International Astronautical Congress.FOCKE STRANGMANN/EPAKeith Gottschalk, University of t… Read More
2019-01-13 11:32
A hot cup of coffee set on a table eventually cools down. The heat lost by the coffee has to go somewhere. Where else but the room it’s in? It gets gained by the air in the room: The… Read More
2019-01-12 12:04
Radioactive carbon used in carbon dating is carbon that is radioactive. Since it is active, it is unstable. Since it is unstable, it tends toward stability. This is common in nature; for ex… Read More
2019-01-11 20:23
Old flame.Petro GuliaievPetr Kilian, University of St Andrews
It’s time to buy a lot of candles. And if we light them with matches, it will only be possible because of the ann… Read More
2019-01-10 22:04
Taxes are a residence fee on citizens: a fee for walking on the better-not-be crowded side-walk, a fee for driving on the better-be smooth roads, a fee for the better-not-be-too long safe wa… Read More
2019-01-10 21:02
Linux is already at your party.John Vetterli, CC BYAndrew Smith, The Open University
Linux, the most widely used open source operating system in the world, has scored a major publi… Read More
2019-01-09 19:30
Interest rate isn’t by how much one would be interested in a loan, the rate of one’s interest in a loan that is. Well, it kind of is; it is how much one would pay for a loan, o… Read More
2019-01-08 19:02
Burmese fishermen raise their hands as they are asked who among them wants to go home. Human trafficking sometimes occurs in the seafood industry.AP Photo/Dita AlangkaraMonti Datta… Read More
2019-01-07 21:49
Loans are nowadays an integral part of societies; citizens take loans to finance the purchase of vehicles, houses, or other types of personal spending. Others take loans to finance business… Read More
2019-01-05 10:44
Some people throughout history worshiped several gods all at once. Others denied the existence of God altogether. Is there a God? Or are there gods? Could there even be more than one God?… Read More
2018-12-31 19:44
North Carolina Stop Torture Now advocacy group.djbiesack, CC BY-NC-SAAlexandra Moore, Binghamton University, State University of New York
President Donald Trump’s nominee for… Read More
2018-12-31 12:51
Waves from a 2012 superstorm crash into a seawall and buildings along the coast near Boston Harbor.AP Photo/Steven SenneDavid L Levy, University of Massachusetts Boston
Is your cit… Read More
2018-12-30 19:11
NASATom McLeish, University of York
Half a century of Christmases ago, the NASA space mission Apollo 8 became the first manned craft to leave low Earth orbit, atop the unprecedented… Read More
2018-12-29 12:22
The busyness man is happy,
because his business is keeping him busy.
The post THE BUSYNESS MAN IS BUSY appeared first on PONDERWALL Read More
2018-12-29 12:19
The shepherd is walking while his sheeps are standing still.
What about now?
Still, his herd is standing still.
The shepherd starts playing around the field and eating grass,
while its sheph… Read More
2018-12-28 21:27
Researchers have identified 3,000 radioactive isotopes – and predict 4,000 more are out there.GiroScience/Shutterstock.comArtemis Spyrou, Michigan State University
When you h… Read More
2018-12-27 20:20
Roman Teteruk/ShutterstockMark Whittingham, Newcastle University
Wind turbines are a leading source of green energy which could supply 12% of the world’s energy by 2020. But t… Read More
2018-12-27 19:01
A Tribe with a one unit less than a prime number of people worshiped evenness.They feared oddness. One was born. Their fear manifested. Little did they know that primes are indivisible, that… Read More
2018-12-24 21:16
Jeremy Renner as US journalist Gary Webb in the 2014 film Kill The Messenger. The film is an account of Webb’s role in uncovering CIA links to cocaine importation to the US… Read More
2018-12-23 13:44
What if you could make a microchip at home?Vladimir Nenezic/Shutterstock.comJoshua M. Pearce, Michigan Technological University
Imagine you had a secret document you had to store a… Read More
2018-12-23 12:50
A plastic waste dump. Mohameed Abdulraheem/shutterstock.comLiberty Vittert, Washington University in St Louis
This year, I served on the judging panel for The Royal Statistical Soc… Read More
2018-12-09 21:07
Demonstrators march down Paris’ Champs-Elysees Dec. 8.AP Photo/Michel EulerCharles Hankla, Georgia State University
The populist protests roiling France remind me of a similar anti-ta… Read More
2018-12-06 19:03
European Commission – Press release
Brussels, 5 December 2018
To protect its democratic systems and public debates and in view of the 2019 European elections as well as a number of na… Read More
2018-12-05 22:22
European Commission – Press release
Brussels, 29 November 2018
The European Commission is launching a second DiscoverEU competition. From today (12:00 CET) until Tuesday, 11 December… Read More
2018-09-08 22:27
Letting it rain.Shutterstock.com/pathdocLucas Davis, University of California, Berkeley and Catherine Hausman, University of Michigan
Following a long slump, crude prices have rebounded to… Read More
2018-09-03 19:31
‘Say it for the tape.’Photographee.euFaye Skelton, Edinburgh Napier University
Office clerk Stefan Kiszko spent 17 years in prison for the murder of schoolgirl Lesley Molseed in… Read More
2018-08-30 16:25
Michael Jackson
He’s out of my life.Photo DeanDaniel Newman, Cardiff University
In a quite extraordinary French legal judgement, five Michael Jackson fans have successfully sued the fo… Read More
2018-08-28 19:48
Anti-opioid protest at the Harvard Art Museums, which the Sackler family has supported with charitable gifts.Jon Shaffer, CC BY-SATerri Lynn Helge, Texas A&M University
The act… Read More
2018-08-27 18:57
Glen MacPherson, University of British Columbia
In the spring of 2012, when I was living near the coastal village of Sechelt, on British Columbia’s picturesque Sunshine Coast, I began… Read More
2018-08-26 12:12
An illustration of the two 20-micrometre-wide vibrating drumheads, each composed of trillions of atoms, in an entangled quantum state of motion.Petja Hyttinen and Olli Hanhirova, AR… Read More
2018-08-26 01:35
Marcelle Arak, University of Colorado Denver and Sheila Tschinkel, Emory University
The United States faces a major problem with prescription drug prices. Even as the prices of most goods an… Read More
2018-08-25 18:58
Joel Lexchin, University of Toronto
Members of Innovative Medicines Canada (IMC), the lobby group for the large pharmaceutical companies, recently released their voluntary reports of payment… Read More
2018-08-25 18:16
Hila Shachar, De Montfort University
With their fierce, independent heroines, brooding anti-heroes and all sorts of dastardly plots, it’s no surprise the Brontë sisters and their… Read More
2018-08-25 14:23
Katrina Kelly-Pitou, University of Pittsburgh
The word “bitcoin” is as likely to garner feverish excitement as it is glaring criticism. The financial community sees speculative… Read More
2018-08-23 19:20
Arsene Wenger: For years it was always THE game of the season that decided the Premier League, at this moment it’s not the case but it is still a big game. It could be again of cours… Read More
2018-08-23 19:20
Arsene Wenger: For years it was always THE game of the season that decided the Premier League, at this moment it’s not the case but it is still a big game. It could be again of cours… Read More
2018-08-22 14:45
Eleven FA Cups is good news for the Red Devils, but is it bad news for the climate?freefoto.comMichael J. I. Brown, Monash University
DURBAN CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE: With the UN C… Read More
2018-08-20 21:43
Bhaskar Chakravorti, Tufts University
After decades of unbridled enthusiasm – bordering on addiction – about all things digital, the public may be losing trust in technology. On… Read More
2018-08-20 16:43
Michael Belzer, Wayne State University
Research shows that economic pressure pushes drivers to work extremely long hours, contributing significantly to truck crashes.
A 2010 survey by the U… Read More
2018-08-18 23:22
Tristan Hotham, University of Bath
Facebook is closing its doors to researchers in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The latest casualty is the app Netvizz, a research tool used… Read More
2018-08-17 20:40
Laura Frizzell, The Ohio State University; Sadé L. Lindsay, The Ohio State University, and Scott Duxbury, The Ohio State University
Leer en español.
On Jan. 24, 2014, police f… Read More
2018-08-12 12:56
On Tuesday August 7th 2018, Digitalcourage, a German data protection group, filed a complaint at the Constitutional Court against the German government. They accuse this latter of using Tro… Read More
2018-08-10 21:58
Jerry Davis, University of Michigan
On Aug. 2, Apple became the first U.S. public corporation to achieve a US$1 trillion valuation, making it the largest company in the world – by one… Read More
2018-08-06 23:56
Frank Edwards, Cornell University and Michael H. Esposito, University of Washington
Police in the U.S. kill on average more than 1,000 men per year, or about three men per day. According to… Read More
2018-08-05 18:34
Elissa Redmiles, University of Maryland
As Facebook users around the world are coming to understand, some of their favorite technologies can be used against them. It’s not just the sca… Read More
2018-07-28 18:40
Andrew L. Russell, SUNY Polytechnic Institute and Lee Vinsel, Virginia Tech
There was a time when California’s Santa Clara Valley, bucolic home to orchards and vineyards, was known as… Read More
2018-07-27 14:08
Joanne Orlando, Western Sydney University and Keith Parry, Western Sydney University
If you were a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) would you allow professional video gami… Read More
2018-07-25 19:04
Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan
Last month, the Department of Justice lost its suit to prevent AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner.
The agency had brought the case out of concer… Read More
2018-07-25 19:04
Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan
Last month, the Department of Justice lost its suit to prevent AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner.
The agency had brought the case out of concern… Read More
2018-07-25 16:41
Can the EU and the U.S. work together on data privacy?Gears image via shutterstock.comWade M. Chumney, California State University, Northridge
Though the recent Apple versus FBI cas… Read More
2018-07-25 09:17
The post HOW SPIDERS USE SILK TO FLY AND RIDE THE WIND ACROSS OCEANS appeared first on PONDERWALL Read More
2018-07-24 21:34
Started with high democratic ideals, how does the U.S. Patent Office work for the 21st century?StreetsofWashington, CC BY-NCShobita Parthasarathy, University of Michigan
Last month… Read More
2018-07-01 20:56
The Finnish R6 eSports proleague team, winners of Rainbow Six Pro League Championship in Sao Paulo.(Ubisoft)Louis-Etienne Dubois, Ryerson University and Laurel Walzak, Ryerson University
You… Read More
2018-06-17 13:40
On August 8th 2012, Gary Harrington checked in for 30 days of jail time in Oregon. The reason: collecting rainwater without a license.
Then 65 year-old, Mr. Harrington had established 3 man… Read More
2018-06-16 15:58
Cleanup crew search for radioactive debris.U.S. Air Force , CC BYTimothy J. Jorgensen, Georgetown University
Fifty years ago, on Jan. 21, 1968, the Cold War grew significantly col… Read More
2018-06-16 08:53
The mother of a Chinese six-year-old boy shared a video where he keeps watching his father directing traffic in the rain in Jiangmen City. The traffic policeman had not seen his son in over… Read More
2018-06-15 20:50
Holly M. Barker, University of Washington
“Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?”
My anthropology class replied, “SpongeBob SquarePants.” Their thunderous response… Read More
2018-06-12 23:22
Charles Hankla, Georgia State University
The latest G-7 summit, held June 8 to 9 in Quebec, was one of the most contentious in years.
That’s because Donald Trump and his counterparts f… Read More
2018-05-13 20:29
A rainbow strikes Angkor Wat: virtual reality technology can now give you the sensation of standing amid the Cambodian temple.BARBARA WALTON/EPA
Janna Thompson, La Trobe University
Suppose y… Read More
2018-05-12 19:31
Raymond Fisman, Boston University
Over the past few years, I have teamed up with fellow economists Marianne Bertrande, Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi to look into one underapprecia… Read More
2018-05-09 20:21
By Steven Townsend, Vanderbilt University
While living in a mother’s womb, cushioned by amniotic fluid and protected from the outside world, babies have only minimal exposure to… Read More
2018-04-24 20:13
Steven Wisensale, University of Connecticut
On Feb. 9, 2001, an American submarine, the USS Greenville, surfaced beneath the Ehime Maru, a Japanese ship filled with high school students who… Read More
2018-04-22 22:14
Peter Williams, Liverpool John Moores University
The controversial issue of serving police officers being members of the Freemasons has been a recurring theme in policing in England and Wal… Read More
2018-04-22 00:29
Roger Jones, Lancaster University
Antimatter was one of the most exciting physics discoveries of the 20th century. Picked up by fiction writers such as Dan Brown, many people think of it as… Read More
2018-04-16 20:47
Sebastian Deffner, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Over the past five decades, standard computer processors have gotten increasingly faster. In recent years, however, the limits to… Read More
2018-04-15 22:26
Geraint Lewis, University of Sydney
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”L. P. Hartley
While the past may seem like a foreign country, the future is… Read More
2018-04-13 21:39
Edward Etzel, West Virginia University
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
Recently, while sitting in traffic, I noticed a weathered bumper… Read More
2018-04-11 22:16
Larry M. Silverberg, North Carolina State University
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
Some 20 years ago, my colleague Dr. Chau Tran and… Read More
2018-04-08 22:18
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2018-04-08 17:24
The post DOG FINDS WHALE VOMIT, THE FLOATING GOLD appeared first on PONDERWALL Read More
2018-04-01 09:43
The Indian Railways company has received over 28 million applications for 90,000 open positions, including train drivers, technicians, trackmen among others. The applicants have to complete… Read More
2018-03-09 21:19
On April 1st 1989, Thomas Muster was struck by a drunk driver in Florida, forcing him to miss the final of the Lipton International Players Championships.
Suffering from teared ligaments… Read More
2018-01-12 22:24
The Swiss government banned the common practice of boiling lobsters alive. They “will now have to be stunned before they are put to death” as stated in the government order… Read More
2017-12-19 20:06
Uwe Huck, the head of Porsche works council and deputy chairman of its supervisory board told DPA (a news agency) that any work-related emails between 7pm and 6am should be returned to sende… Read More
2017-12-15 00:22
The Museum of Mankind in Paris holds 37 skulls of Algerian militants who had revolted against the French occupation forces in 1849. These skulls were taken by the French army after having d… Read More
2017-12-01 22:47
The Philippines decided to suspend its dengue immunization program because the used vaccine poses health risks in people who were not previously infected.
The decision comes after the annou… Read More
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