Science & Society
- SIDS Persists Despite Recommendations For Safer Sleeping
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About 4,000 babies die in their sleep each year from due to suffocation and strangulation despite recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics that infants always be placed on their backs to sleep and that they share a room with parents but not a ...
Article - News Staff - May 4 2014 - 9:00am
- Privacy Is Not Dead- And 3 Other Privacy Myths Debunked
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Privacy discussions of modern times have four pillars- and they are all weak, according to a new article. There are four main arguments about privacy: (1) it is dead; (2) people don't care about privacy and modern youth care even less; people with not ...
Article - News Staff - May 5 2014 - 4:00am
- Anti-Semitic Behavior Escalated Sharply In 2013
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It isn't just U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry insulting Jewish people, the whole world harassed, threatened and used abusive language toward Jews on an individual basis more in 2013. But there was a silver lining; a 20% decline in violent incident ...
Article - News Staff - May 6 2014 - 4:30am
- Food Activists Declare Synthetic Biology In League With Lucifer
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If you want to find a hotbed of anti-science sentiment, sure, you could go to a cigar bar full of Republicans and mention that the temperature outside must be up because of global warming- and you would get lots of predictable responses, but you would not ...
Article - Hank Campbell - May 7 2014 - 8:47am
- Friends Of The Earth Wants To Learn Science
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Friends of the Earth, most famous for being against nuclear energy and every other bit of modern science and technology, now thinks most scientists are unethical- unless they are hand-picked by Friends Of The Earth. ...
Article - Hank Campbell - May 22 2014 - 12:41pm
- Gangs: Offender Today, Victim Tomorrow
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Gang culture gets you one way or the other according to a new paper. Gang members are twice as likely to become both a victim and an offender of a crime than non-gang members. Why? Single acts of violence often lead to retribution between gangs as a whole ...
Article - News Staff - May 7 2014 - 10:01am
- Not Just The US: Why Most Countries Like Partisan Media
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Media has always been partisan but when it was only partisan one way, that was the norm. It was considered objective and impartial. In the US, there were social conservative Democrats who believed in national defense and liberal Republicans who supported ...
Article - News Staff - May 8 2014 - 1:30am
- New York City Smog Linked To Future Earnings In Kids
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Would reducing smog lead to higher earnings? Yes, say Columbia University professor of Environmental Health Science Frederica Perera and colleagues. They correlate reduced air pollution to higher IQ. When two curves need to match to create causation and ...
Article - News Staff - May 8 2014 - 8:41am
- Spice: The Preferred Illicit Drug Of Army Users
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States can pass all of the laws they want but a US Army soldier, active duty or otherwise, is going to be in serious trouble if there is evidence they have used marijuana. It does not matter if you claim to have pain or get a note from your doctor, the Ar ...
Article - News Staff - May 11 2014 - 9:32am
- Hurricane Katrina Blamed For Increases In Stillbirths
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Can hurricanes cause stillbirths to rise sharply or is it epidemiologists torturing data until it confesses again? A paper in the Journal of Epidemiology&Community Health says that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are responsible for up to half of all rec ...
Article - News Staff - May 9 2014 - 8:47am