This picture Samm Newman posted on her instagram page got her kicked off the social network.

CREDIT: Instagram: @snicolen58

In the photograph, Samm Newman is smiling. She’s got that Lorde look with her wet, curly hair tossed all the way to one side. Her eyes are as blue as the cover of her cell phone, and she poses for the selfie hand at her side, stomach bare. Her white bra and pink polka dot underwear don’t match, not that they even need to, because that’s not the point. She’s happy and she’s proud. She’s also 19 years old. And a si ... Read more »

You could be forgiven for not having browsed through the latest issue of the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences. If you care about politics, though, you’ll find a punchline therein that is pretty extraordinary.

Behavioral and Brain Sciences employs a rather unique practice called “Open Peer Commentary”: An article of major significance is published, a large number of fellow scholars comment on it and then the orig ... Read more »