Science & Society

US Lead In Science And Technology Continues To Narrow

United States dominance in science and technology declined  during the last decade as several Asian nations rapidly increased their innovation capacities. According to a new report, The 2014 volume of Science and Engineering Indicators prepared by NSF ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2014 - 6:56pm

Criminologists Blame Wal-Mart For Crime

Wal-Mart caters to people with less money and there has long been a link between poverty and crime. Criminologists have instead taken the additional step of implicating Wal-Mart in crime rates. Communities across the United States saw decline in crime duri ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2014 - 3:57pm

Ideological Implications Of Nudes In Roman Mosaics

To ancient Romans, the depiction of female nudes in mosaics were meant to invoke beauty, carnality and eroticism while male bodies reflected determination, strength and power, according to work from the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) that analyzed ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2014 - 10:29am

Ideological Implications Of Nudes In Roman Mosaics

To ancient Romans, the depiction of female nudes in mosaics were meant to invoke beauty, carnality and eroticism while male bodies reflected determination, strength and power, according to work from the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) that analyzed ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2014 - 10:29am

Get Rid Of Retirement

America has a looming cost of services crisis but in the UK it's already here; people who retire expecting a certain standard of living have overwhelmed the tax base. To keep people working longer, a professor at the University of Southampton recomme ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2014 - 2:05pm

Rich People Abuse Their Kids Less- Paper

The Great Recession of 2009 deepened income inequality- except for the government, a lot more people were out of work and scholars have correlated that to county-by-county rates of child maltreatment, from sexual, physical and emotional abuse to traumatic ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2014 - 1:53pm

2014 Science And Engineering Indicators: 90 Percent Of Americans Respect Scientists

While each American political party has positions that are determined to undermine science (food, medicine and energy for Democrats, evolution and global warming for Republicans) their constituents still respect scientists overall, even if they don't ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 15 2014 - 2:32pm

Misconceptions About Science And Religion Abound

A small minority of religious and scientific communities insist the two can't get along. If you see 'scientocracy' or 'Galileo' invoked, you can be sure rationality has left the discussion. Almost 50 percent of scientists consider ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2014 - 10:24am

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