Nonprofit news organizations play a significant role in the media landscape, particularly as alternatives to mainstream media, which may exhibit various biases. Organizations such as ProPublica and ...

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For decades, scientific literature described human conception this way, with the cells mirroring the perceived roles of women and men in society. The egg was thought to be passive while the sperm was ...

Former Boston Globe and Washington Post editor Martin “Marty” Baron reemerged in the media discourse recently, after publishing an extensive defense of the notion of journalistic objectivity. It is a ...

Belief has waned in a lot of things in recent years: Christianity, table manners, the Republic of Ireland’s men’s football team. But one type of disbelief has had a more profound effect than any other ...

Nullius in Verba is the motto of the Royal Society, the oldest scientific organisation of its kind in existence. It translates as "Take no one's word for it" and embodies the noble principle that all ...

Most academic disciplines belonging to broad category of social sciences are intrinsically interpretative. This is because any claimed addition/contribution to ‘knowledge’ in any branch of social ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Even if you don’t recall many facts from high school biology, you likely remember the cells required for making babies: egg and sperm. Maybe you can picture a swarm of sperm cells ...

Do the names Mulrunji Doomadgee or Layla Leering or Fionica James mean anything to you? Have you heard of the case of Rebecca Maher? What about that of Kevin Henry? If you are anything like me, an ...