Science & Society

British Economists Do For US What Can't Be Done In The UK: Estimate Value Of Lobbyists

University of Warwick economists say they can calculate the true value of  political lobbyists in American politics- quantifying the 'it is not what you know, but who you know' adage. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2012 - 11:16am

Girls Play With Dolls, Boys Catapult Them

Though a subset of culture is determined to make the world omnisexual, kids are not getting the message. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 12 2012 - 2:32pm

Insurance Companies Will Make Money On Climate Change Either Way

The insurance industry and its $4.6 trillion in revenues isn't going to be caught unaware by climate change.  They are all about risk. Sometimes that can have unfortunate effects in the real world. In 2009, former Vice-President Al Gore talked at an ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2012 - 11:43am

Tax Evasion Happens In Socialist Countries Too

While the overall population of Greece benefits from government services and doesn't want those to change, the people who pay the most also evade the most, says a paper.  If their estimates are accurate, at a tax rate of 40 percent the 28 billion Eur ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2012 - 12:28pm

School Shootings: Looking For Warning Signs

There's no way to legislate evil out of existence and mentally ill homicidal people are sometimes going to commit gruesome crimes. It has no cultural boundaries. The same day a mentally ill American attacked children in Connecticut a man in China did ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2012 - 3:43pm

Are Science Site Readers into Science or only Sex

Write a critical article about how science careers, including your own, are destroyed and science is corrupted today; put it on a “science” site; get 2400 readers in three months and basically no reaction except for a so called “Institute of ETHICS and Em ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 14 2013 - 12:42pm

Health Robotics Raises Prices To Implement Full Health Care For Employees

Health Robotics has informed customers it will raise prices so as to be able to fully comply with The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), including health insurance benefits for its USA-based employees.  The price increases will apply to bot ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 27 2012 - 11:37am

Gun Ownership Denial For Misdemeanors Will Stop Mass Shootings, Says Advocate

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Article - News Staff - Dec 28 2012 - 1:11am

Advertise Your Half-Baked Science Here!

The relationship between the work of science and works of fiction has gone on for a long time. It's time to put a ring on that finger. It's no secret that fiction writers have been pilfering ideas from science for generations. Verne did it. Wells ...

Article - David Sloan - Nov 14 2013 - 10:53am

What Would Be A Food Movement Worthy Of The Name?

Back in October, author Michael Pollan wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times   in which he said the upcoming vote on California Proposition 37 would show whether or not the “Food Movement” had developed into “a movement worthy of the name.”   Prop ...

Article - Steve Savage - Jan 1 2013 - 8:28pm