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Science For Criminals – 19th Century Knowledge Helped Change Death Row

When did executions go from being functional example-setting to being more humane in method? Annulla Linders, a University of Cincinnati sociologist, examined newspaper accounts of 19th and 20th century Ohio executions to put more …

Common Sense And Science – If You Have HIV, Don't Chew Your Baby's …

Don’t chew someone else’s food if you have HIV or AIDS? Sure, that sounds like common sense but lots of things that seem like common sense to some are abstract to others – try explaining geodesics, Euclidean geometry and spacetime to …