Electrification and Challenging Our Preconceptions [Viewpoint]

Teaching evolution: challenging religious preconceptions.

Teaching college students about the nature of science should not be a controversial exercise. College students are expected to distinguish between astronomy and astrology, chemistry and alchemy, evolution and creationism. In practice, however, the conflict between creationism and the nature of science may create controversy in the classroom, even walkouts, when the subject of evolution is raise...

Response to the commentary 'A question of our marketing or our preconceptions'.

Our paper ‘A strategy for human factors/ergonomics: developing the discipline and profession’ (Dul et al. 2012) was intended to suggest directions for and to stimulate discussions in the human factors/ergonomics (HFE) community on the future of our field. We believe that discussing the future is an urgent endeavour, as – after decades of existence – in many parts of the world HFE is often under...

Astrometry - Challenging our Understanding of Stellar Structure and Evolution

Stellar mass plays a central role in our understanding of star formation and aging. Stellar astronomy is largely based on two maps, both dependent on mass, either indirectly or directly: the Hertzprung-Russell Diagram (HRD) and the Mass-Luminosity Relation (MLR). The extremes of both maps, while not terra incognita, are characterized by large uncertainties. A precise HRD requires precise distan...

Astrometry - Challenging our Understanding of Stellar Structure and Evolution

Challenging our own practices in Indigenous health promotion and research.

At the 2006 National Conference of the Australian Health Promotion, Māori academic and public health physician Dr Papaarangi Reid challenged us to critique our own practice and asked whether health promotion needs to be de-colonised. In this paper, one Indigenous and two non-Indigenous researchers working within the Aboriginal community controlled health sector reflect on ways in which research...