This is exploration every week on exploration we discuss the fascinating world of science and its impact on society and today leading off we re going to summarize some of the top stories in science today on exploration we re going to continue our discussion about the whole question of the origin of the universe we realize that Christian fundamentalists have not only targeted the theory of evolution but they ve also targeted the theory of the Big Bang as well and they would like to ban both theories from high school textbooks but today we re also going to talk about something different concerning the Big Bang and that is the role of women in science we realize that the president of Harvard University created quite a firestorm when he mentioned that perhaps there s some reason why women don t do that well in the hard sciences Well women are present in the hard sciences especially astronomy However in the area of astronomy it s rather scandalous that some of the biggest discoveries in th
Bus loads of Florida students arriving in Tallahassee to urge Florida lawmakers to do something to stop school violence for many that s gun control we re going to keep talking to keep pushing something is done because people are dying and this can happen to her own a student at Stillman Douglas High School where 17 people died last week but Tuesday the Florida state legislature voted down a measure that would have banned assault style weapons in the state other students will have the president s ear on Wednesday this is a listening session to see what can be done better what the actual concerns of the students are what they would like to see White House press secretary Sara Sanders says students parents and lawmakers have been invited both from Florida and from other school shootings as well the president has made a move against a controversial gun accessory going back to the deadly shooting a 58 people last October he directed the attorney general clarify whether certain Bob stock de
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Strongly criticize the Department of Health and Social Care for failing to deal with a shortage of care workers. An annual survey of local authours Ses has found that 95 percent plan to increase council tax the l g u I think tank says it s the highest proportion since the analysis began in 201280 percent fear for their financial stability. The amount of British households with outstanding personal loans has increased by 25 percent in the past 4 years lending data from u.k. Finance shows the average household last year had almost 1400 pounds of unpaid loans Melanie Reynolds from Batley West Yorkshire is now debt free but at 1280 pounds my salary wasn t very high salary and it would cover my mortgage in the utilities but not much else so I was using credit cards to pay for food shopping in borrowing to pay for school trips it wasn t frivolous it wasn t to go on holiday or anything like the Financial Conduct or thought he says it has strict rules for lenders regarding affordability. The