Science & Society
- 40 Percent Of Children Read Calorie Information: 33 Percent Are Overweight
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Does more food labeling related to calories and nutrition make a difference? About one third of American kids and teens is overweight or obese, nearly triple the rate in 1963, making it a much bigger health concern than smoking or drug abuse. Meanwhile, ...
Article - Hank Campbell - May 29 2013 - 5:08pm
- Atheists In Foxholes? Not Many- And Less The More Soldiers Dislike War
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Ernie Pyle, the iconic embedded World War II embedded journalist killed by Japanese machine gun fire in 1945, made famous the adage, "There are no atheists in foxholes." He was making a point that it's better to be safe than sorry when you ...
Article - News Staff - May 24 2013 - 2:29pm
- The Importance Of The Literature
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The Importance Of The Literature The public at large, and unfortunately too many writers, do not know how vital a properly conducted survey of the scientific literature can be. We must remember the motto of the Royal Society- nullius in verba- do not rel ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 24 2013 - 12:43pm
- For Pundits, It's Better To Be Confident Than Accurate
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Pundits are wrong more often than they are right but when preaching to the faithful, being accurate is less important than being confident. It's no different in politics or sports or business shows. You often choose to be accurate- or be popular. & ...
Article - News Staff - May 30 2013 - 3:55pm
- Chesterton, Darwin, and Race
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One has to be careful how one reads. A few years ago I used this short bit from Darwin’s Descent of Man (page 174) to tease a Welsh friend: ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jun 8 2013 - 4:09am
- Space Warriors And STEM: An Interview With Thomas Horn And Tim Hall
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It's not often that the Hallmark Channel gets a shout-out on Science 2.0 but when they send young people into space, I'm in. I got an email about an upcoming movie and it intrigued me so the publicist not only put me in touch with interesting peo ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 3 2013 - 2:14pm
- Beef Production In Africa Can Improve Lives, Says Wildlife Conservation Society
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Some groups insist that eating meat is bad for the environment. They even invented a bogus metric, it takes a gallon of gas to make a pound of beef, to show the environmental harm of not being a vegetarian. ...
Article - News Staff - May 31 2013 - 10:00am
- Gerald Warner Blows Wind
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Gerald Warner Blows Wind Gerald Warner is not a scientist: he is a polemicist. A very good polemicist, if that means someone who knows how to make good use of the diatribe dictionary. If there is a word or phrase which will get Gerald Warner a high ranki ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 1 2013 - 8:58pm
- Advocacy As Science
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Increasingly one can't help but notice the tone of many of today's hot button science topics have decidedly left the realm of science and become firmly entrenched in advocacy. My choice of discussion is Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) foods ...
Article - Gerhard Adam - Jun 2 2013 - 1:57am
- The Mousetrap Myth
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The Mousetrap Myth Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. The metaphor of a better mousetrap suggests that any really useful invention will be eagerly adopted. In this series of articles I trace a history of invention and d ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 6 2013 - 9:13am
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