Science & Society

Europe's Taboo Topic: Omitting 30 Percent Of Needs When Government Runs Health Care

Due to Budget constraints, registered nurses in European countries are often confronted with difficult decisions: They have to decide which care activities they can offer to their patients and which to omit.  What usually gets cut is patient comfort or ta ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2013 - 5:00am

Mandatory Calorie Postings At Fast-Food Chains Don't Influence Food Choice

Posting the calorie content of menu items at major fast-food chains in Philadelphia, per federal law, hasn't change purchasing habits or decreased the number of calories that those customers consume, researchers reported Friday at the Obesity Society ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2013 - 7:00am

Heavy Drinking Leads To More Divorce- Unless Both Spouses Do It

Drinking and marriage don't mix- unless both spouses do, according to a recent paper by the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) which followed 634 couples from the time of their weddings through the first nine years of marria ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 21 2013 - 5:54pm

Boom And Bust: As Government Takes Over Science, Funding Becomes Prone To Bubble Formation

The government enjoyed tremendous success steering the goals of science in World War II and that continued during the NASA era. Since that time, government has exercised greater control of science through larger and larger pools of funding that have gradu ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2013 - 3:34pm

Video Games Provide Learning, Health And Social Benefits, Review Finds

Video games, including the violent shooter games which are found to be good and bad in various studies, may boost children's learning, health and social skills, according to a review of research published in the American Psychologist. The review come ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2013 - 5:31pm

Habitable Planet Searches (And Claims) Should Be More Focused

NASA should trademark 'has implications for life on other planets'- every other month there are claims about habitable exoplanets, but they are based on statistical wobbles and it isn't informing the public as well it such claims could beca ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2013 - 2:36pm

Medical Research Needs Kids- But Most Parents Don't Do It

If pharmaceutical companies are unethical, scientists are just tinkerers and doctors are educated by marketing, why would parents sign up their kids for medical research? Those concepts are perpetuated in both mass and science media so it's no surpri ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2013 - 12:20pm

Fires, Floods Or Sharks? Ocean Rip Currents Are More Dangerous Than All Of Them Combined

Rip currents claim more lives in Australia on average each year than bushfires, floods, cyclones and sharks combined- but don't get too nervous, rip currents only cause about 21 confirmed human fatalities per year. Rip currents are strong, narrow sea ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 27 2013 - 11:22pm

US Mothers: You're A Lot Lazier Than In The Past, Say Epidemiologists

A new paper from the University of South Carolina says that mothers in the U.S. are far less physically active than they were in previous decades and now spend more time engaged in sedentary activities like watching television than in cooking, cleaning an ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2013 - 8:12pm

Is colour helpful?

A couple of days ago, I read this on Real Clear Science: Why Spelling Tests Don’t Help Kids Spell by Misty Adoniou I highly recommend this short article, but I would like to pick out one sentence: Nor is getting children to write their spelling words out ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 4 2013 - 2:28pm