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How long will you live if you stop eating and drinking?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How long will you live if you stop eating and drinking?

...become cut off from artificial sustenance, death ensues within 10-14 days. Keep in mind that these individuals are in a coma and completely immobile, thereby consuming the lowest amount of energy possible. It can thus be surmised that the same conditions (no food or water) in a person who is at least somewhat active, and who may perspire, would only lead to a much swifter...
What is the zika virus?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is the zika virus?

...becoming mirrored by increasingly intensive research efforts. There are several salient, but as yet unanswered, questions. Is the association with microcephaly real, or is the Brazilian microcephaly spike just a parallel epidemic caused by something else? Why was microcephaly not reported in the Pacific island outbreaks? If the microcephaly association is proved, what...
Does Inside Out accurately capture the mind of an 11-year-old girl? A child psychologist weighs in
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does Inside Out accurately capture the mind of an 11-year-old girl? A child psychologist weighs in

...become more central and she discovers romantic feelings. And it also sounds like groundwork being laid for a sequel centered on Riley’s pubescent years. The trailer for Pixar’s Inside Out. Transcript To read about whether or not Inside Out accurately depicts how memory works, click here. [The Conversation] Jane Timmons-Mitchell, Associate Clinical Professor of...
Are the Orlando murders part of a public health emergency?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are the Orlando murders part of a public health emergency?

...become numb to gun violence. And just this weekend, he said: “to actively do nothing is a decision as well.” While mass shootings galvanize the nation’s attention, a sad truth is that mass shootings represent a very small proportion of total firearm homicides in U.S. In 2012, fewer than one percent of firearm homicide victims were killed in mass shootings, defined...
The 2016 race enters the home straight
Society, Politics & Law

The 2016 race enters the home straight

...become a significant liability. For Trump, the equivalent is perhaps a major terrorist attack on home soil, or a huge scandal to eclipse the Clinton campaign. Even the debates, not widely expected to help Trump’s chances, provide a potential for some upset. President Obama’s shaky performance in his first debate against Mitt Romney in 2012 was a textbook example....
What will Donald Trump do for the environment?
Nature & Environment

What will Donald Trump do for the environment?

...become more influential. Alternative models, based on goals that include the environment and wellbeing, may have more space to establish themselves. Examples include the Genuine Progress Indicator and Gross National Happiness. The next four years will be challenging. Environmentalists will need to be vociferous in raising concerns with the US government. The uncertainties...
How was the Moon made, and when did it happen?
Science, Maths & Technology

How was the Moon made, and when did it happen?

...become the Moon. But how quickly did all this happen? Fortunately, the supernova explosion that is thought to have given the impetus for our local cloud of gas and dust to contract – and so form the sun and its planets – seeded the cloud with newly-formed isotopes of radioactive elements. As each decays to a stable isotope at a different rate, these provide an...
Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion

...become highly methodologically creative, inventing a swathe of new practical ways of knowing about social life. Yet we at CCIG would argue that researchers must go beyond meeting the intensified demand for new methods. Methods are important because what we know is changed by how we know it. Furthermore, the reasons why someone uses a particular method are linked to their...