Science & Society

Discretionary Surgery Under Obamacare Will Go Up

During discussions of the Affordable Care Act, there was concern that some procedures would be harder to obtain. There was even worry about 'death panels' such as in the United Kingdom National Health Service. It will be just the opposite in the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2014 - 6:47pm

Canadians With Dyslexia 6X More Likely To Have Been Physically Abused In Childhood

Dyslexic adults in a representative sample of 13,054 adults aged 18 and over in the 2005 Canadian Community Health Survey included 1,020 respondents who reported that they had been physically abused during their childhood and 77 who reported that they had ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 3 2014 - 8:51am

Bering strait theory, and the Out of Africa model scientific method, not dogma.

Many American Indians do not like "Bering Strait theory" because of how it is misused by non-native non-scientist.  This is my attempt to set the record straight.  The Bering strait migration of the paleoindians is a law of nature supported by ev ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jul 5 2014 - 3:46pm

How to Manage That Wild And Natural Look

In 1978, I was just beginning my career with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). I worked in the southern Sierra Nevada range as the Assistant Forest Manager at Mountain Home State Forest, a 4800 acre state forest surround ...

Blog Post - Norm Benson - Jul 6 2014 - 1:50pm

Cross-Cultural: Babies Born To Healthy Mothers Worldwide Are Similar In Size

All across the world, there is one thing babies share in common; their size, if they are born to healthy, well-educated, well-nourished mothers. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2014 - 7:41pm

Scientists discover that atheists might not exist, and that’s not a joke

Metaphysical thought processes are more deeply wired than hitherto suspected ...

Blog Post - Nury Vittachi - Oct 12 2016 - 8:40am

Urban Heat Is Not A Myth- But It's Not Due To Lack Of Trees

New York City residents think everything is about New York City. A NYC storm automatically becomes a Super Storm, the population between the Hudson River and the San Francisco Bay bridge are assumed to be mutant church Republican zombies, they even think ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2014 - 3:25pm

If Cigarette Packages Were Giant Warning Labels, Would People Quit?

There is a belief that someone decides to try a cigarette, reads a warning label, and then never does. This belief is perpetuated by the industry that has built itself around taxing and penalizing cigarette companies and taking that money to lobby against ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2014 - 12:27pm

Can Twitter Address Specific Health Issues?

Doctors cringe at the idea that patients may come in with specific information they got from the Internet; an athlete may do something good and the Wikipedia entry will say they are the greatest American since Abe Lincoln, while the entry for Science 2.0 ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2014 - 4:01pm

Penny Stock Peer Review

Not the JVC peer review ring, an actual gambling ring. Credit:  China Daily It's something of a mild joke in science circles- you can figure out who is peer-reviewing your paper by looking for the common author in the citations you 'missed' ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 14 2014 - 9:28am