Science & Society

92 Percent Of People Eat What They Put On Their Plates

There is a lot of concern about food waste and it may be due to leftovers that never get used but it probably isn't the bulk of Americans- 92 percent of people eat everything. Obviously that can be bad for people in other ways if people put a lot on ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2014 - 7:00pm

Science Magazine's use of transgender women shows educated people can be ignorant.

Science Magazine used Transwomen as props on a cover that had nothing to do with the contents. All it did was stigmatize a marginalized group of people and probably reinforce bias among members of a privileged group, the American Association for the Advanc ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jul 23 2014 - 1:28pm

If You Care About The Organic Revolution, Disavow Mike Adams

Revolutions are messy business, they require participation by a type of personality that is not very savory; militant, bombastic, a little crazy.  ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 26 2014 - 12:13pm

Moral Identity, Empathy And Justice: Why Some People Donate More To Charity

In America, where categorization becomes easy because there are two main political parties, it is well-known that right-wing people donate more to charity. This makes sense; people who believe in smaller government should be willing to help their fellow ma ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2014 - 12:01pm

Comparing The Risks Of Treatments For Esophageal Cancer- Review

A new paper in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute addresses the risks associated with the growing popularity of endoscopic resection in the treatment of localized, early-stage esophageal cancer. Researchers found that the more traditional surgic ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 28 2014 - 11:59am

The 2008 Financial Crisis Was Not Caused By Short Selling

In the summer of 2008, the US economy was clipping along as well as it had ever been. There were people in the know who recognized that actual economic output was down and the drivers were housing sales, including President Bush and his economic advisors ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2014 - 3:00am

Rural Studies Show Informal Child Care Works

Scholars studying the child care sector in Kansas, particularly in rural areas, have found that informal child care services create a large economic impact in the state.  Informal child care services include unlicensed facilities, unreported day care serv ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2014 - 1:00am

Medicaid May Be Why So Many Mentally Ill People Are In Prison

In the 1800s, mentally ill people were in jail. Then they were put in more humane mental hospitals. But then mental hospitals got vilified in mainstream news stories and horror movies and they were closed and now mentally ill people are back in jails, 10 ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2014 - 5:30am

The Great War Began 100 Years Ago Today: Here's History That Gets Ignored

The history of World War I- since there was no II then, it was simply The Great War- is well-known. Volumes have been written about why European monarchs, related to each other, nonetheless rolled "the iron dice" and sent millions of young men to ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2014 - 4:34pm

Big Data

Nothing boosts the prospects of page hits on a blog – or funding of a grant proposal – like the phrase “big data.” Why are we enamored with “big data”? ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Aug 2 2014 - 10:18am