Blake Neff The chancellor of Oxford University in the U.K. said Thursday that students unhappy about a Cecil Rhodes statue on campus should consider moving to a different school, or even to China. A student movement at Oxford called Rhodes Must Fall has been campaigning for a statue and plaque honoring Cecil Rhodes to be…
Russ Read Political commentator and known Putin critic Vladimir Pribylovsky was found dead in his apartment Wednesday, leading some to speculate the nature of his death. Pribylovsky was found by his son Mikhail after he had not been heard from for three days. It is currently unknown how the Putin critic died, but an autopsy is pending….
Guy Bentley Smoking tobacco might negatively affect teen students’ grades more than marijuana use, according to a new study. Published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, researchers examined 2,235 children, investigating their IQ and educational performance from ages 15 to 16. The sample was taken from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. The effects of marijuana…
Rachel Stoltzfoos Breitbart News published at least 30 stories in the past week about Donald Trump’s theory that Sen. Ted Cruz is ineligible to run for president because he’s not a natural born citizen, moving into birther territory despite a previous categorical statement from a lead editor that Breitbart is “not a birther site.” “I think pretty…
Guy Bentley The American Heart Association (AHA) is worried that young Americans are shunning tobacco cigarettes in favor of e-cigarettes. In a press release following the publication of the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s 2015 Monitoring the Future Survey, the American Heart Association said: While the downward trend in teen cigarette smoking is a wonderful…
Andrew Follett NASA announced Friday that it has formalized a Planetary Defense Coordination Office to defend Earth from asteroids that could potentially end humanity. The new office will aggregate previously existing American asteroid detection programs such as the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking, the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search, and the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System. The office will also work…
Michael Bastasch Former Vice President Al Gore shocked Americans in “An Inconvenient Truth” when he said polar bears were drowning because global warming was melting Arctic sea ice, but now a new study shows that polar bears did just fine even when there was no ice covering the Arctic. Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey…
Andrew Follett Greenpeace responded to accusations “of cultural ignorance and colonialism” by stating on Twitter Monday “The struggle has never been about saving the planet. The planet does not need saving. This Struggle is about us.” The struggle has never been about saving the planet. The planet does not need saving. https://t.co/RvdQ0LVFKF pic.twitter.com/Q8useSP3OB — Greenpeace (@Greenpeace)…
Chris White A super-intelligent hybrid human-computer — i.e. artificial intelligence — might be the ticket to solving “wicked” problems like global warming and war, researchers at the Human Computation Institution (HCI) and at Cornell University suggest. If only scientists could find a way to combine the creative abilities of humans with the immense data analyzing…
Andrew Follett The EPA has made a lot of power grabs of dubious legality over the last year, from forcing unpopular regulations through over the objections of Congress to illegally using social media to promote Obama’s policies. So without further ado, here are the top 5 EPA attempts to grab power through quasi-legal means. 1: The Clean Power Plan The Clean Power…