Earth’s last intact wilderness areas are being rapidly destroyed. More than 5 million square km of wilderness (around 10% of the total area) have been lost in the past two decades. If this continues, the consequences for both people and nature will be catastrophic. Predominantly free of human activity, especially industrial-scale activities, large wilderness areas […] … learn more→

Over the past two years, my university, Wright State, has been producing negative news stories with remarkable regularity. Our enrollment, which had been gradually increasing has dipped somewhat, and because we are in the midst of a largely self-created budget mess, any decline in enrollment makes the budget issues worse and the number of positions […] … learn more→

Information and knowledge have always been essential drivers of social progress, and the technologies through which knowledge is acquired, stored and communicated have been determinants of the nature and scale of their impact. A technological milestone was passed at the turn of the millennium when the global volume of data and information that was stored […] … learn more→

“Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.” –Beria, head of Stalin’s Secret Police  Only an idiot could have thought the Left agenda of shutting down Conservative speakers on campus would stop at just those speakers. Having succeeded in making it impossible for a Conservative to show his or her (Hi Ann Coulter!) […] … learn more→

A medication test is a specialized examination of a natural example, for instance pee, hair, blood, breath, sweat, as well as oral liquid/salivation — to decide the nearness or nonappearance of indicated parent drugs or their metabolites. College overseers are accused of guaranteeing a protected, steady, and sound school condition where kids can learn and […] … learn more→

To nobody’s great surprise, a month ago, Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Paris climate agreement. While some current and former coal miners celebrated, this act of environmental vandalism not only won’t see a return of jobs to an industry where strip-mining requires few workers but it also – paradoxically – has reignited the […] … learn more→

Advanced mathematics is not for the uninitiated. Even with years of training, it’s easy enough to go to a research seminar and have at best merely a basic idea of what the latest findings are about. Experts in the field usually understand completely of course, but even if what’s being said seems incomprehensible to the […] … learn more→

What have professional services staff done to deserve such scorn from academics? Having worked in the marketing department of two well-known British universities over the past eight years, I can honestly say that the vast majority of professional staff treat academics with the respect and reverence their hard work and achievements deserve. We would never […] … learn more→

The common mistake that most students often make is that they think political management is the same as political science. While they can often be parts of the same online masters in political science program and they do have some overlapping similarities, political science and political management are not one in the same. Whatever the […] … learn more→

Whether you have a basic or intimate understanding of what cancer can do to the human body, you’ve likely heard that it has to do with an uncontrolled growth of cells in various organs. Those outside the medical community may not understand that this process is cell proliferation. When it occurs normally, it is a […] … learn more→