Americans spent about $150 billion on cannabis, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine in 2016. This amount rivals what Americans spend on alcohol. The cannabis market was roughly the size of the cocaine and meth markets combined. Spending on cannabis, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine by Americans reached nearly $150 billion in 2016, […]
Can free-range parenting laws and city proclamations help restore kids’ freedom? By Peter Gray Ph.D. ‘Freedom to Learn’ Can laws and official public proclamations help to restore children’s rights to be children and parents’ rights to be parents? There is some evidence that they can. This is the third article in […]
Governments are attempting to regulate tech giants, but the digital disruption genie is already out of the bottle. Shutterstock Back in the 1990s – a lifetime ago in internet terms – the Spanish sociologist Manuel Castells published several books charting the rise of information networks. He predicted that in the networked age, […]
New regulations drawn up under the Trump administration would entail a far less ambitious overall reduction of power sector carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 A coalition of 22 US states and seven cities on Tuesday sued President Donald Trump’s administration to block it from easing restrictions on coal-burning power plants. […]
Rosewood trees grow across West Africa AFP About six million rosewood trees have been cut down in Ghana for illegal export to China since 2012, an environmental group says. The rare species, which takes 100 years to grow, is mostly used to make imperial-style furniture in China. The report blames […]
The sun sets behind telescopes at the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii’s tallest mountain, Sunday, July 14, 2019. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at the base of Hawaii’s tallest mountain to protest the construction of a giant telescope on land that some Native Hawaiians consider sacred. State and local officials will […]
Fishermen are continuing to illegally discard dead fish back into the sea, according to a House of Lords inquiry. The inquiry looked at the impact of the ban on fishing discards six months after new rules took effect. The committee’s report said the new regulations have had “little impact”, but […]
Saul Kassin has studied interrogations by observing them and simulating them in the lab. DREW GURIAN At 16, Huwe Burton confessed to killing his mother. He was still in shock from discovering her body when New York City police began to interrogate him. After 3 hours of being threatened and […]
Many victims of school bullying suffer mental illness later in life. from shutterstock.com The Victorian state government was recently reported to be investigating whether it could make it easier for bullying victims to sue schools. This was prompted by the case of a 13-year-old boy who had to undergo surgery after being […]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane into orbit from NASA’s Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Sept. 7, 2017 (Image: © SpaceX) WASHINGTON — A lawsuit filed May 17 by SpaceX against the U.S. government was made public […]