Science & Society

NARPAA: Official Statement On Judge Rotenberg Center

Steven Muller, President of The National Association of Residential Providers for Adults with Autism has released the following statement regarding the Judge Rotenberg Center: The video of staff at the Judge Rotenberg Center applying electrical shock as pu ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Apr 27 2012 - 1:59pm

Should Science Subsidize Basket Weaving?

Two decades after colleges got politicians to declare a college education a 'right' (fuzzy correlation/causation statistics showing a college education meant higher lifetime earnings made that part easy), schools that have put up lots of new buil ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 1 2012 - 9:52pm

Lincoln Was An Atheist

Unless he gets hit by a bus, Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican nominee and be given the opportunity to lose in the election this fall. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 3 2012 - 12:29am

Frictionless Sharing And The Perils Of Social Reading

You're in luck. To the consternation of advertisers, we gather almost no information about you so if you are concerned about outsiders learning a lot about you from your visit to this article, fear not.  If we were that clever, this site would make a ...

Article - News Staff - May 8 2012 - 12:00am

Physics is hard. No Duh?

It seems that one Toby Cubitt,  a quantum physicist, has done research which proves mathematically that physics is hard.  Well no duh.  Physics is the subject sane people avoid in college.  Compare the conceptual complexity of Louis DeBroglie's work o ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 11 2012 - 4:57pm

Science meets Society interviews Sascha Vongehr

Science meets society (SMS) has interviewed me. Actually, they took my answers to their list of questions so to make it look like an interview may have taken place. I am thankful for the honor and the exposure and all that, however, I am somewhat concerne ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - May 16 2012 - 12:34am

Scare Journalism- Drinking From A Garden Hose Will Hurt Your Kid

Helicopter parents rejoice- when you are not slathering on chemicals to make sure your cherubs never get any sunshine and scraping off deadly pathogens with antibacterial soap, you can further protect your offspring by insuring they catch no debilitating d ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 18 2012 - 11:00am

You Can't Be Anti-Business And Claim To Be Pro-Green

California faces an identity crisis.  The financial mismanagement is so well known that late-night talk show hosts make jokes about getting loans...from Greece.  Three years ago, third world countries like Romania were safer bonds than California but now G ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 24 2012 - 4:59pm

A Primer On "Tribal Science": An Easy Read On Why We Believe As We Do

Mike McRae's  Tribal Science: Brains, Beliefs, and Bad Ideas is short, sweet, often humorous and to the point. It's also pithy and full of quote-worthy sentences: "Since most of the face-like patterns Mary sees every day are indeed faces, he ...

Article - Kim Wombles - May 22 2012 - 12:37pm

SETI's Jill Tarter Stepping Down

"Contact", Carl Sagan's 1985 novel about man's contact with extraterrestrial life and where it takes us, was, like all good stories, modeled around real characters. The book was okay but the movie "Contact" had Jodie Foster, w ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 22 2012 - 12:14pm