E volution is famously controversial, despite being as well established as any scientific theory. Most people are familiar with the dismal statistics, showing how a large fraction of Americans at all educational levels do not accept the theory of evolution [1], how efforts to teach evolution often fail to have an impact [2], and how constant vigilance is required to keep evolution in the public...

Angus Turnbull1* and Michael Osborn2 1Imperial College School of Medicine, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South Kensington Campus, London, UK 2Department of Cellular Pathology, Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, London, UK *Corresponding author: Angus Turnbull, Imperial College School of Medicine, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK, Tel: 4473565091...

Half of college students drop out without completing a degree. This paper establishes a causal link between college costs and degree completion. I use quasi-experimental methodology to analyze two state scholarship programs. The programs increase the share of the exposed population with a college degree by three percentage points, with stronger effects among women. A cost-benefit analysis indic...

Since the end of the Cold War, nationalist, ethnic, and civic conflicts have proliferated around the globe. Thus, the optimistic notion of the “End of History” has degenerated into a “Clash of Civilizations,” at least according to some prominent thinkers of international relations.1 The United States, the United Nations, and other international actors have been drawn into several of these confl...

1 Computational Biology Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Wolfson Building, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2 Computational Science Laboratory, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 3 CoMPLEX, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University College London, Physics Building, London, United Kingdom, 4 Centre for Computational Science, Department of Chemistry, University...