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Enlarge / Senator John Cornyn (center, black suit) takes a photo with the 2017 astronaut class. (credit: NASA Johnson) On Friday, Texas Senator John Cornyn took to Twitter with some advice for scientists: models aren't part of the scientific method. Scientists have responded with a mix of bafflement and exasperation. And Cornyn’s misconception is common enough—and important enough—that it’s worth exploring. Cornyn’s beef with models echoes a talking point often brought up by people who want to reject inconvenient conclusions of systems sciences. In reality, “you can make a model say anything you want” is about as potent an argument...

When a young family, including a professional musician, outgrew their home in a 125-year-old dairy building, they approached Dan Gayfer Design to renovate the residence to suit their lifestyle. "Footscray is one of Melbourne’s most iconic inner west suburbs, and it’s solidifying itself as a cultural hub. Seeing the existing brick dairy at the rear of the residence, one can’t help conjuring up idyllic fields of dairy cattle prior to the land being subdivided into residential blocks," says Gayfer. "While the historical character of the dairy has been preserved, the overall outcome is what we would call ‘modern industrious.’" The...

Do you have a loved one’s birthday coming up in the near future? Then you’ll want to find a gift that they will cherish forever. It’s easy to find a gift that offers a one-size-fits-all solution, but finding one that’s personal to them might be a little more difficult - especially if you don’t have a large budget for the gift.  This is where this article could help. If you’re looking for an extraordinary gift idea, no matter who it’s for or their age, here are some ideas that you can take inspiration from this year that won’t break the...

With fried chicken or sweet potato rounds I’m a huge fan of Wagamama but on a student budget, eating out is very much a luxury. To get around this, I decided to recreate Wagamama’s famous Katsu Curry at home. I have tried this recipe a few times using a few different suggestions from the internet as their recipe was a closely guarded secret… Recently however, Wagamama have published a recipe for Katsu on their Facebook page and so I tried again, adding a few extra bits to it – this is therefore their recipe with a few added extras. The...

Writer, filmmaker and creator of Freaks and Geeks, Bridesmaids, Spy and A Simple Favor, Feig is wearing thick-rimmed spectacles, a black velvet smoking jacket and a conspicuously false mustache. With a slightly manic enthusiasm befitting an improvised live broadcast, Feig explains he wanted to pair his Vieux Carré—a cocktail with a French name—with a French song. He says he donned the mustache because he thought it evoked French-ness. Every day at 5 p.m. for the past three weeks, Feig has been dressing up, dancing around his Burbank home and mixing drinks as “Drunk Funcle,” a persona he’s developed over the...