Pentagon Finally Overhauls Effort to Identify Its Missing
The restructuring promises to address many of the problems laid out in a recent ProPublica and NPR investigation.
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Why Did the Pentagon Give Up on a Fallen GI?
For more than 50 years, Army PFC Lawrence S. Gordon was mistakenly interred as a German soldier in a cemetery in France. Then European officials did what the U.S. military would not: exhumed and identified him with DNA.
4 Ways to Really Fix the Pentagon’s Effort to ID 83,000 Missing Service Members
Changes must go beyond bureaucracy to update the scientific approach and embrace outside help.
How You Can Help Find Someone Missing in Action
John Eakin shares what he learned about tracking down the remains of his cousin who died in a World War II POW camp.
Science Is, Undeniably, Making the World a Better Place: A Conversation With Steven Pinker
Oliver Burkeman explores human nature, violence, feminism, and religion with one of the world’s most controversial cognitive scientists. Can he dent Steven Pinker’s optimism?
The Math Equation That Explains David and Goliath
From babies' tantrums to labor strikes to guerrilla wars to global terrorism, there may be one simple math equation, a power law, that benchmarks them all. Better yet, it may allow us to predict these confrontations' future.
One in Every 10 People Killed in Syria’s War Is a Child
Once again we're reminded that it's not just those who choose to put themselves in harm's way who die during a war.
Count on War to Build a Society
History reportedly is written by the victors. In the future, those accounts may be written in equation form and not sentences, suggests a new paper that mathematically describes the importance of warfare in creating societies.
‘Candy,’ ‘Scarcity,’ and ‘War Play’: Book Reviews in 100 Words or Less
What you need to know about Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, and War Play: Video Games and the Future of Armed Conflict.
Why Does Citizenship Matter?
How national affiliation became such an important part of our personal identity.