Science & Society

Sorry Women, Men Really Are Funnier

If you're a man, no matter how funny you are, your wife thinks you are not.  Well, men, science is giving you the last laugh. Sort of. Men are funnier than women, though mostly to other men, according to a psychology study from the University of Calif ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2011 - 3:22pm

New Climate Analysis Group Slams Nature And Science Magazines

A new climate group sought to replicate findings from recent analyses- and did- and Richard Black at the BBC seeks to spin that as stating Phil Jones of East Anglia University needs an apology. Did anyone really doubt the numbers would match?   While the & ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 23 2011 - 10:35am

The IPCC Exposed And Climate Gate Alive And Kicking

Donna Laframboise’s book “ The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert: An Expose of the IPCC ” is out. Negative reviews on amazon are very helpful. Forget the positive ones; they are seldom useful. Reviews that give the wr ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 24 2011 - 3:34am

Radiance: Alan Alda Shines A Light On Marie Curie

Quick, have you heard of Professor Curie?  How about Marie Curie? If you're reading this article, you may have known who I meant with the first one, but how many of you instinctively thought of Pierre Curie, co-discoverer of Polonium and Radium, when ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 10 2011 - 11:21pm

Twinkie Defense Revisited: Soft Drinks Implicated In Teen Violence

Teens who drink more than five cans fizzy soft drinks per week- less than one per day- are significantly more likely to commit violence or carry weapons, suggests research in Injury Prevention, part of the British Medical Journals.   ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2011 - 8:41pm

Pink Week: Breast Cancer Awareness and Raising Money for Free Mammograms

This week, we're running a breast cancer awareness week at my college--spearheaded by my students, friends, and me--to benefit the Hope Fund at Hendrick Hospital in Abilene, Texas, to provide free mammograms to women in need. Another professor and fri ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Oct 25 2011 - 6:33am

Republicans Really Are Crazy When It Comes to Science.

I know that there are plenty of liberals and progressives that are scientific whacko's and embrace many anti-scientific sentiments.  I'm certainly not about to defend them, but.... Something this stupid simply can't be ignored.  Enjoy. ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Oct 28 2011 - 5:45pm

Political Rhetoric- Blame Digital Media

Throughout the history of politics, the discourse has been rancorous. If your parents did not tell you never to discuss religion or politics in polite company, you learned that lesson on your own. 'Blame the media' thinking was popular even in th ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 2 2011 - 2:31pm

Are We Focusing our Engineering and Science Efforts on the Wrong Age Group?

In a recent article in the NY Times, Christopher Drew discussed one of the primary ways we as a nation lose our scientists and engineers. ...

Blog Post - Aimee Stern - Nov 4 2011 - 11:28am

Science is Hard...

... and we teach it wrong.  That's the conclusion of a NYT op ed, titled 'why science majors change their minds (it's just so darn hard)'.  Aimee Stem (here at Science2.0) argues that it's in part a diversity issue, that we're ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Nov 5 2011 - 7:30am