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Restrictions on admissible changes of scale are often overlooked in science education. Ironically, this topic receives far more attention in philosophy, psychology, and sociology texts than in the natural sciences. In fact, it was the Harvard psychologist S.~S.~Stevens who introduced the now-classic taxonomy of measurement scales, classifying variables according to …

In the recently highly anticipated encyclical on the environment, Pope Francis alludes to a conjectured ecological crisis involving global warming. Pope Francis is not the only Pope to have addressed this controversial theme.

Logic is the heartbeat of all true learning – the soul of the Classics, the Sciences and Religion. Once everyone studied the Classics, to know that in logic there is a difference between true and false; the Sciences, to discern where it lies; and Religion, to appreciate why it matters. Today, few study all three empires of the mind. Fewer study the ordered beauty of the logic at their heart.

Researchers from the University of Manchester, have calculated that the Carbon cost of the UK Christmas dinner is equivalent to 6,000 car journeys around the world or 51,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. The cranberry sauce alone, normally imported from North America, contributes half the carbon footprint related to transport. 

Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles,values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes,but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issuesthat have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on theway ahead. What great cause would have been …