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The International Space Station at 20 offers hope and a template for future cooperation

A STS-134 crew member on the space shuttle Endeavour took this photo of the ISS after the station and shuttle …

‘Rainbow wave’ of LGBTQ candidates run and win in 2020 election

More LGBTQ candidates ran for office in the United States in 2020 than ever before – at least 1,006. That’s …

Feeling disoriented by the election, pandemic and everything else? It’s called ‘zozobra,’ and Mexican philosophers have some advice

Ever had the feeling that you can’t make sense of what’s happening? One moment everything seems normal, then suddenly the …

Leaked Alberta school curriculum in urgent need of guidance from Indigenous wisdom teachings

In Alberta, drafts of a proposed kindergarten to Grade 4 curriculum for social studies and fine arts were recently leaked …

Death rates have fallen by 18% for hospitalized COVID–19 patients as treatments improve

  CC BY-ND Two large recent studies show that people hospitalized for COVID-19 in March were more than three times …

A history of contested presidential elections, from Samuel Tilden to Al Gore

No matter the outcome of the presidential election, it seems likely that Democrats and Republicans will end up in court. …

Election night has been a big media event since electric lights first announced the winner in 1892

As election night approaches, Americans will turn to their televisions, computers and smartphones to watch results come in for local, …

What the public hopes and fears about the use of AI in health care

There has been increasing interest in using health “big data” for artificial intelligence (AI) research. As such, it is important …

Talk of scrapping NZ’s Human Rights Commission is a danger to democracy

A call to abolish New Zealand’s Human Rights Commission and dismiss it as a “hard left” body forgets the role …

Can New Zealand’s most diverse ever cabinet improve representation of women and minorities in general?

Two weeks after Labour’s landslide election win, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a ministry that is more diverse than any …

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