Offbeat: Shortcoming of ITQ systems for fisheries —
Individual transferable quota systems for fisheries around the world may be ideal for some fisheries, but they can exclude rural, indigenous, low-income and...
Offbeat: Three million deaths in 2016 were attributed to alcohol, which carries ‘massive health...
A new scientific study concludes there is no safe level of drinking alcohol.
The study, published today in the international medical journal The Lancet,...
Offbeat: Steep decline in student belief that God created humans, 32-year Australian study reveals...
Australian university students give far more credit than the previous generation to the science of human evolution and far less to creationism or...
Offbeat: Linked to less stress and more physical activity than cubicles or private offices...
An open plan design, with no partitions between desks ('open bench' configuration), may be healthier than other types of workstation arrangement for office...
Offbeat: Open-access video curriculum improves comprehension of human behavior and motivations —
Ethics Unwrapped, a video-based behavioral ethics curriculum created at The University of Texas at Austin and adopted by educational institutions around the world,...
Offbeat: How people use, and lose, preexisting biases to make decisions —
From love and politics to health and finances, humans can sometimes make decisions that appear irrational, or dictated by an existing bias or...
Offbeat: A practical workflow for labs with limited resources —
Globally, biodiversity is concentrated around the equator, but the scientific institutions generating DNA sequence data to study that biodiversity tend to be clustered...
Offbeat: System encourages government transparency using cryptography on a public log of wiretap requests...
When the FBI filed a court order in 2016 commanding Apple to unlock the San Bernandino shooter's iPhone, the news made headlines across...
Offbeat: Solar geoengineering could reduce temperatures and heat stress, but also reduces photosynthesis —
Injecting particles into the atmosphere to cool the planet and counter the warming effects of climate change would do nothing to offset the...
Offbeat: Number of opioid prescriptions remains unchanged, research finds —
Despite increased attention to opioid abuse, prescriptions have remained relatively unchanged for many U.S. patients, research led by Mayo Clinic finds. The research,...
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Hey ISIS, You Suck: Local Muslims Post Anti-ISIS Billboard
A new billboard on Manchester Road in Missouri reads, "HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims."
A group of Muslim-Americans have put up a blunt billboard...
