Since the dawn of humankind, we’ve looked up and wondered what lies beyond. In the 1980s science education television series Cosmos, the astronomer Carl Sagan spoke of how prehistoric peoples would look up at the night sky and wonder what those points of light were.
Perhaps the most existential question humans have ever asked still remains unanswered: Are we alone in the universe?
By hiring for both character and competency, fire service management can ensure that communities are served by the best possible people they can hire.
The continuing spread of the coronavirus has pushed the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo from the top spot in the world’s health news.
2019-nCoV is not classified as a pandemic; although that is subject to change based on the rate of human-to-human transmissions and determination of the lethality of the virus.
How will the decapitation of Iran’s covert military arm affect its operations? Will it change its targets, its methods of operation (MO), or its capability to operate against American interests in the Middle East and worldwide?
By Scot DuFour
Some police officers embrace stoicism, but many of these principles directly undermine and clash with the criminal justice system. Learn more about the philosophies of stoicism including why believing in determinism over free will is problematic for officers.
In the fifth article of this series, I discussed the viability of a ‘floating colony’ concept, which involves the creation of human habitats that would bob along in the clouds of Venus. Many experts believe this idea is a good one.