Science & Society

Requiem for Humanity — Artificial Intelligence, Androids/Biobots

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ...

Blog Post - Alan Hoshor - Mar 18 2012 - 11:29pm

British Finally Ask For Lower Fuel Taxes

The problem with usage taxes is that government really has no reason to lower the price of fuel.  The more fuel costs, the more they generate in duties and therefore the more people they can hire that will vote for them to get re-elected. It isn't a ...

Article - Newswire - Mar 19 2012 - 10:25am

Coregasm Revisited: Sex At The Gym That Won't Get You Divorced

A study by Indiana University researchers on "coregasm" says it has confirmed anecdotal evidence that exercise can lead to female orgasms. Good news for health clubs everywhere? Maybe.  But it's been darn hard to pin down reliable data on it ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 19 2012 - 9:34pm

Egyptians Rally Around Fighting Big Tobacco

You've heard of Egypt; they were in the news last year for riots and for making Twitter relevant. But dictatorships, oppression of women, sexual discrimination and religious intolerance are apparently not the most important cultural fight they face, ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 23 2012 - 4:20pm

Dear Energy Secretary: If You've Lost Jimmy Fallon, You've Lost The Country

When Energy Secretary Steven Chu was appointed, it was a bit of a policy worry.  Yes, he has a Nobel prize in physics but being a scientist has never shown to be any great benefit for policy. Despite the myth that scientists are stoic and serious and unemo ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 6 2014 - 12:50pm

From The Minds Of Best Sellers: Mastery As A Process

The Objective The aim of this paper is to investigate the ways in which humans go about “mastering” a task. Mastery is characterized by comprehensive knowledge or skill in a subject. To be a master or specialist of a task demonstrates dedication, persever ...

Article - Alex Atwood - Mar 23 2012 - 4:15pm

Requiem for Humanity — Economics

ECONOMICS    Many observers of human history have recognized cycles of behavior. Most of them have attempted to quantify these wave patterns of behavior hoping to be able to use them to predict the future. A recent interpreter of these cycles is John Cast ...

Blog Post - Alan Hoshor - Mar 23 2012 - 4:46pm

Trust In Science Has Declined Among Conservatives- Why?

There was a time when people on the right trusted science far more than moderates and liberals. Distrust of scientists, including levels that verged on raging paranoia, was limited to the left side of the political spectrum. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 29 2018 - 12:19pm

14th Annual L'Oréal-Unesco Awards For Women In Science From March 26 To March 29

PARIS, March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/-- The L'OREAL-UNESCO For Women in Science program is welcoming the 15 International Fellows in Paris for a week of scientific meetings and debates.   - On Wednesday, March 28, from 4 pm to 5:15 pm, the International ...

Article - Newswire - Mar 26 2012 - 8:20pm

Atheist David Albert destroying Dumb New Book by naïve Atheist Krauss

I do not usually shoot of little posts re-tweeting stuff I found, but the total destruction that is David Albert’s New York Times book review “ On the Origin of Everything ” reviewing “ A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing ” ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Mar 29 2012 - 12:20am