Science & Society

Most People Don't Think About The Moms Of Kids On Ventilators

If we see or read about a child on a life-sustaining medical device, such as a ventilators or breathing or feeding tube,  we naturally think about the child And when it comes to parents, we use platitudes like 'strong' but the physical and psych ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2014 - 12:26pm

Engage In Debates About Science And Society With Less Partisanship- Good Luck With That

Scientific institutions and organizations can improve their communication and outreach with the public by addressing people's strongly held beliefs about science and its role in society- and using less demagoguery. Or at least hiding it. Lead author ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2014 - 7:55pm

Avoid Helping Grow An Arab Spring? Democracy Efforts Fail If Larger Countries Try To Help

Politics always make strange bedfellows. When George W. Bush was president, the claim of his political opposition was that Iraq was 'no harm to anyone outside its own borders' and so we should not be involved there, much less do any nation build ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 20 2014 - 10:35am

Stop The Hatred: Parks Ecotourism Improved The Lifestyle In Costa Rica By 16 Percent

If you ask aging environmental activists, the worst thing that can happen to nature is to have people step onto it. This is the completely wrong approach, but one adopted by their corporate leaders in the last two generations when they found their donor b ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2014 - 7:00am

Filicide- A 32 Year Analysis Of Parents Murdering Their Kids

To sane people, parents who kill their kids are both horrifying and tragic, though levels of acceptance and blame flow with cultural trends. Once upon a time, when a mother in Texas killed her children in a bath tub, celebrities like Katie Couric blamed e ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2014 - 2:22pm

Breast Milk Is Not Why Breastfed Babies Are Smarter

Numerous studies have concluded that children who were breastfed score higher on IQ tests and perform better in school. Why would that be? Is it the mother-baby bonding time, something in breast milk or other attributes of families that have mothers who b ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 26 2014 - 4:23pm

We Might Have No Free Will, But At Least We Are Influencing Half Of The World

In times of easy access to the Internet and cheap travel, we consider ourselves part of a global society, but how connected this really makes us will surprise many of us. ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - May 9 2014 - 12:19pm

Scientific Reproducibility- Is It Going Extinct Or Do We Not Teach Statistics Well Enough?

Recent research has shown an alarming number of peer-reviewed papers are irreproducible and it isn't just social sciences surveys or weak observational studies. It's in fields like biology. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2014 - 11:00pm

Women In Academia Are Less Likely Than Men To Cooperate With Lower-Ranked Colleagues

When it comes to demographics and society, no one likes surveys and statistics that make them look less positive. Yet surveys and statistics are all we have to go by in order to know if people are treating each other the way they expect to be treated in tu ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2014 - 6:04pm

Farming And Nutrition: The Upside And Perils Of Worldwide Food Staples

If you as a farmer have a choice between growing food that can feed lots of people or diverse food that can feed only a few, the answer will be obvious. As science has discovered that certain varietals will have better yields, it is no surprise that peopl ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2014 - 9:28pm