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As the light of the day grows shorter, and a bit more yellow, one can sense both the coming of fall and winter and the migrations that these changes invoke.

The humanities are in big trouble. That's the conclusion drawn by Benjamin Schmidt, an Assistant Professor of History at Northeastern University. He has the data to back it up.

One of the biggest problems with journalism -- particularly science journalism -- is the fact that many people who practice it aren't qualified to do so.

As extreme heat grips several areas of the country, Tuesday's high temperature in Palm Springs, California was a staggeringly brutal and record-breaking 121 degrees.

Legislation to outlaw discrimination on the basis of age was first introduced in the UK in 2006.

Physicians, according to a new study, exemplify that quotation from Gertrude Stein, interrupting their patients within the first 11 seconds of their visit, not allowing them a chance to share a patient-centered goal, “their agenda.” I was pre

In an attempt to pry our attention away from the electronic health record’s computer screen and back towards our patients, physicians have employed scribes – a staff member whose sole job is to concurrently “document” the patient visit.

Two elderly women were comparing notes about the food they had while vacationing in the Catskills.

I am a scientist. I even have the credentials to prove it. There is a PhD degree in microbiology hanging on my wall and a few peer-reviewed publications to my name.

Scientism uses the cloak of quantity to explain and describe qualities, in particular qualities that lose their true meaning when reduced to a quantity.