We almost lost our favorite dinosaur last week. But then the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) came to the rescue. As Megan Gibson reported at Time’s News Feed: It all started when two scientists in Montana, John Scannella and Jack Horner, argued that triceratops (arguably the best of the dinosaurs) was actually just a [...]
The Boston Globe‘s Joe Keohane raises some interesting–dare I call them–facts about facts. In short, he says, researchers have found that our brains are a threat to democracy: It’s one of the great assumptions underlying modern democracy that an informed citizenry is preferable to an uninformed one. “Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be [...]