Science & Health - Rationale Magazine

Jonathan Meddings 06/05/2023

A nurse once told me many health professionals don’t report female genital mutilation (FGM) because it could result in children ...

Meredith Doig 02/04/2023

On 14 April 2023, it will be 10 years since I sent out the very first edition of ‘RSA Daily’. ...

Cendri Hutcherson 21/03/2023

Imagine being a policymaker at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. You have to decide which actions to recommend, how ...

Martin Rees 19/03/2023

It’s easy to envisage other universes, governed by slightly different laws of physics, in which no intelligent life, nor indeed ...

Mark Lorch 05/03/2023

What images does science conjure up in your mind? You may well be visualising a laboratory, equations scrawled on a ...

Jack Dikian 03/03/2023

There is an old Chinese curse, “May you live in an interesting age.” It continues: “They are times of danger ...

Jonathan Meddings 20/02/2023

I’ve spent the last 10 years researching and writing a book on circumcision. The first question most people ask me ...

Virginia Barbour 09/02/2023

Researchers can’t progress their work without access to very expensive scientific journals. The rebellion against the publishers and their fees ...

Adrian Barnett 29/01/2023

New Zealander Nigel Richards has won the French Scrabble championship twice. What’s more remarkable than double wins is that Nigel doesn’t ...

Meg Elkins 07/01/2023

Nudging – the idea that simple changes to how a choice is presented can lead people to make better decisions ...

Noel Turnbull 27/12/2022

Nudge theory offered a wonderful alternative future in which governments could nudge people to do the right thing and thereby ...

Nathan Kilah 28/11/2022

To a young mind, science can be magical. Perhaps you remember a visually striking or seemingly inexplicable scientific demonstration from ...