American Education Demands a Fact-Based Curriculum, Not Religious Ideology

American Education Demands a Fact-Based Curriculum, Not Religious Ideology One hundred years after the Scopes trial, religious ideologues are still trying to supplant evidence-based curricula with myths, to the detriment of a well-informed society By The Editors In July of 1925 hundreds of reporters and other onlookers crowded into a sweltering courtroom in Dayton, Tenn.,…

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V is for Venom review: Killer new book uncovers Agatha Christie’s knowledge of toxicology

A talent for murder: Agatha Christie is one of the world’s bestselling writers Shutterstock/Doodeez V Is for VenomKathryn Harkup (Bloomsbury Sigma) Agatha Christie’s  five-decade writing career saw her poison dozens of her characters, supplying the killers in her stories with an assortment of deadly chemicals, including poisons and venoms produced by living organisms and delivered via…

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