Science & Society

Facebook Users Don't Recommend Products Because It Seems Too Pushy- Religion, Politics Are Just Fine

Facebook has more than 1.23 billion active users. Most of them are not actually friends with each other and because they are not friends with each other, they feel pushy recommending products or services. They're fine hammering on politics and religi ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 8:57am

Will Coupons And Discounts On Stuff Lead To Healthier Behavior?

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down but apparently the public will also happily accept movie tickets, cell phone minutes and discounts on air travel. A private South African health plan, Discovery Health, increased patient use of preventive car ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 11:00am

Live Like The Poor, Die Like The Rich- More Money Does Not Solve Health Care Issues

Advocates for subsidized health care insist we face a black and white issue- the rich have health care and the poor do not. Yet poor people in developing nations are healthier than wealthier countries.  Hans Rosling,  Professor of International Health at ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 12:00pm

Kids, Don't Imbibe: That's How Alcoholic Hobos Started

Surveys of 20 homeless, alcohol-dependent patients who had four or more annual visits to Bellevue Hospital's emergency department for two consecutive years determined that all began drinking in childhood or adolescence, and 13 reported having alcohol ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 12:00pm

The Real Magic Moment When Unwed Parents Get Married Isn't What You Think

Unwed parents are becoming more common- some estimates are that more children will be born out of wedlock than in it by 2016. Unwed parents may eventually get married, though perhaps not to the person they first had children with. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2014 - 1:51am

After The Spanish Civil War, The Subversive Ways To Include Gays In Cinema

The gay marriage movement may seem like a modern development but it had its roots in World War II culture. By having homosexual characters in comedies, the concept was less threatening and still passed the censorship of film boards. An article in the jour ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2014 - 10:15am

How HIV Impacts Social Aspirations In Kenya

How do you shape your hopes, ambitions and expectations when growing up in an environment devastated by HIV/AIDS? For her doctoral thesis, epidemiologist Ellen Blommaert looked for answers in Winam, a rural area of western Kenya where HIV/AIDS wreaked havo ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2014 - 11:02am

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

PNAS Issues Expression Of Concern About Facebook Experiment Study

PNAS has issued an expression of concern about a study it published where Facebook attempted to manipulate the emotions of members by controlling their news feed (10.1073/ pnas.1320040111). But they only bothered to notice and say anything after the outra ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 3 2014 - 5:34pm