Globally, 1.4 billion adults at risk of disease from lack of physical activity | Regina Guthold

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Sept. 5, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- More than a quarter (1.4 billion) of the world's adult population were insufficiently active in 2016, putting them at greater risk of cardio ...

A Farewell to Norms | Milton Mueller

Credit: Derek Bridges, Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Milton Mueller -- Internet Governance Project Sept. 4, 2018 “Keep right on lying to me. That’s what I want you to do.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms ...

An Astrological Interlude: Brexit | John Michael Greer

Aug. 29, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- The noise and bustle generated by the ongoing three-ring circus of U.S. politics in the era of Trump can make it hard sometimes to notice that performances just as co ...

Research methods that find serial criminals could help save tigers | Matthew Struebig, Freya St. John

Tiger on a trap camera. Credit: Matt Struebig Aug. 27, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A geographic profiling tool used to catch serial criminals could help reduce the casualties of human-tiger conflict, accordin ...

Geologists uncover new clues about largest mass extinction ever | Michael Broadley

The photo depicts a sample of mantle xenolith, rock sections of the lithosphere that get captured by the passing magma and erupted to the surface during the volcanic explosion. Credit: Michael W. Bro ...

Nuclear Calendar -- August 26, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation Aug. 26, 2018 Aug. 28 4:30-5:30 p.m., Francis Gavin, Johns Hopkins University, "Rethinking American grand strategy in the age of Trump," ...

Study finds flaw in emergent gravity | Lisa Zyga

Illustration of a three-dimensional hypersurface. Credit: Wang and Braunstein. Published in Nature Communications Aug. 10, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A new paper undermines a key assumption of the theory of ...

How Russian Trolls Neutralize Certain News | Xymena Kurowska & Anatoly Reshetnikov

Image credit: NYMag.com Aug. 8, 2018 (The Conversation) -- Russian "troll factories" have been making headlines for some time. First, as the Kremlin's digital guardians in the Russian blogosphere. Th ...

The Kek Wars, Part Four: What Moves In The Darkness | John Michael Greer

Aug. 8, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- In last week’s thrilling episode of The Kek Wars, we saw how a band of outsiders linked by the network of online forums loosely called “the chans,” and armed with the ...

Was the 2016 election legitimate? It's now definitely worth asking the question | Virginia Heffernan

Credit: Talking Points MemoJuly 28, 2018 (Los Angeles Times) -- We need to talk about a forbidden subject: the legitimacy of the current president. There’s been a code of silence around President Don ...

Russia and the far right’s cozy affair | E.J. Dionne Jr.

Image: Los Angeles TimesJuly 29, 2018 (Washington Post) -- The links among Vladimir Putin, President Trump, and segments of both the Republican Party and the American conservative movement seem bizar ...