Offbeat: New study finds that feedback rather than hard evidence makes us more confident...
Ever wonder why flat earthers, birthers, climate change and Holocaust deniers stick to their beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence to the...
Offbeat: Troubling disadvantages, including bias, against women in business, study finds —
Women CEOs in America are paid less, have shorter tenures and their companies are punished in the stock market, even when their firms...
Offbeat: Act strongly before 2035 to keep warming below 2°C —
If governments don't act decisively by 2035 to fight climate change, humanity could cross a point of no return after which limiting global...
Offbeat: Ozone levels higher across China than in other countries tracking the air pollutant...
In China, people breathe air thick with the lung-damaging pollutant ozone two to six times more often than people in the United States,...
Offbeat: Protect key habitats, not just wilderness, to preserve species —
Some scientists have suggested we need to protect half of Earth's surface to preserve most of its species. A new Duke University-led study,...
Offbeat: Stockholm Convention having impact —
Levels of some persistent organic pollutants (POPs) regulated by the Stockholm Convention are decreasing in the Arctic, according to an international team of...
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...
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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...
