Science & Society

Earth Day: Is The Temperature A Symptom Of Climate Change?

77% of Americans prefer summer over winter and while we know what temperatures actually were this past winter, what people think they were in a recent Harris Poll is something else. When it came to the temperature, 88 percent of Midwesterners and 84 percen ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2014 - 5:30am

'Tween' Programming: Is Disney Promoting Stereotypes Or Creating What Kids Want To Watch?

The term "tween" is a marketing colloquialism for a child who is between the ages of 8 and 12-not quite a little kid but not yet a teenager. A pre-adolescent. This demographic watches more television than any other age group and is thus consider ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 23 2014 - 12:38am

32 Percent Of Canadian Adults Say They Were Abused As Kids

Canadians may seem polite to outsiders, that maple leaf on a backpack says pacificism all over the world, but they are apparently quite hard on their kids. A Canadian Medical Association Journal articles says that almost one-third of adults in Canada have ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2014 - 6:00pm

Most people in the USA are not confident of the big bang, evolution or the age of the Earth

Where science and religion conflict most Americans choose religion.   According to the AP-GFK poll most  Americans lack confidence in the greenhouse effect, the 4.5 billion year age of the Earth, the theory of evolution, and the big bang theory.   This art ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 22 2014 - 6:19pm

Despite Guns, We Are Not More Violent Than Our Ancestors

If some drug-addled sociopath shoots up a movie theater or an elementary school, there is lots of speculation about the cause. In frustration and helplessness, people search for a magic bullet- things they can ban- to keep it from ever happening again. In ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 23 2014 - 12:38pm

Small Business Owners Don't Expect Fairness, They Are Thinking About Survival

During the 2012 US Presidential election, both political parties were tripping over themselves to claim they cared about small business, either by sabotaging them with more costs in the way of health care on one side or by constantly giving breaks to gian ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2014 - 12:21pm

Learning Lessons From Yesterday

Learning Lessons From Yesterday It is well said that people who do not learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them.  History can teach many valuable lessons if only we are willing to learn.  Never forget, though, that history started a femtosecond ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 24 2014 - 2:48pm

The Wacky Wonderful World Of Alicia Silverstone Science

I can be lazy. I was famous for it as a child. I didn't bother to walk, I didn't bother to talk. When I got older, if I had to do a chore, I found a way to be a screw-up and break something. I had unlimited time for D&D and art and sports, th ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 29 2014 - 1:48pm

Nutrition Science And Other Fairy Tales

If you are skeptical of nutrition advice in general, or Miracle Vegetable of the Week claims in mainstream media, you have good reason: In a world where the United Nations body on cancer meta-analyses, which self-identifies as the most important carcinogen ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 29 2018 - 1:24pm

Estimating Costs Of Natural Disasters- Toward An Accurated Approach

Costs of natural hazards are at historically high levels, and show an increasing trend, which is expected, because wages and inflation go up every year, but estimates are almost meaningless. When estimated damage gets high-profile media claims, like in Ne ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 28 2014 - 9:56am