In 1977, two jumbo jets collided at an airport on the island of Tenerife. The highly respected pilot of the KLM aircraft was under pressure to depart, and ignored several signs and warnings that the Pan Am Jumbo had not yet cleared the runway. They took off in the fog without proper clearance and 583 […]
It is Mental Health Awareness Month in the United States, and next week is Mental Health Awareness Week in the United Kingdom. And awareness is certainly increasing. Already this year, reports, surveys and studies have documented psychological experiences experienced by the aged, young, school children, men, women, soldiers, immigrants and refugees, football players, dancers, actors,
Nearly 20 years ago, a student at Peking University in Beijing alleged that she was sexually assaulted and raped by a professor. His case had little impact at the time, but it is happening now. The issues it raises highlight two points of view on how the #MeToo movement is now operating on the campuses
On Wednesday, November 30, 2016, crowds of Cubans took to the streets of Havana to pay their last respects to Fidel Castro. On the same day, fans gathered to watch Spanish football stalwart Hercules surprise Barcelona one-on-one in their Copa del Rey match. And to test a central feature of quantum mechanics, a crowd of
Since the late 1990s, the number of countries contributing clinical-trial data used by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve drugs has nearly doubled (see ‘Going Global’). Yet this global expansion of study locations has not been accompanied by a similar increase in the racial diversity of those enrolled. In 1997, 92% of