Science & Society

When It Comes To Comic Books, Let's Put Literary Criticism Back On The Shelf

Shall I compare thee to a novel? No. Tim McFarlane/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA By David Sweeney, Glasgow School of Art ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 23 2014 - 5:30pm

Media And Energy Coverage: Bias Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

Source: IPA By Kerrie Foxwell-Norton, Griffith University It’s tempting to view The Australian’s latest broadside at the ABC as just another salvo fired between our nation’s two biggest media organisations. ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 24 2014 - 6:00pm

American Heart Association Declares War On E-Cigarettes

The American Heart Association has drafted a policy recommendation on the use of e-cigarettes and their impact on tobacco-control efforts and says that because e-cigarettes contain nicotine, they are tobacco products and should be subject to all laws that ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2014 - 10:51am

Counter-Intuitive: Too Many Ethical Companies Is Bad For Society

For 'credence' services such as auto-repair, health care, and legal services, when more service providers care about the customer's well-being, society as whole may actually be worse off.    Why? Because the benefit to the customers for the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2014 - 12:26pm

Why Smoking Shouldn't Give Movies An Automatic R Rating

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Article - Simon Chapman - May 25 2015 - 12:01pm

Married Couples Who Smoke Pot Have Fewer Domestic Violence Incidents

A look at 634 couples found that the more often they smoked marijuana, the less likely they were to engage in domestic violence.   The scholars attempted to clarify inconsistent findings about domestic violence among pot-smoking couples that primarily has ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2014 - 6:30pm

Wealthy, Liberal, Elites: Vaccine Refusal Linked To Expression Of Privilege

Not all students returning to school this month will be up to date on their vaccinations and a new paper in Gender&Society by Jennifer Reich,a professor of Sociology from the University of Colorado Denver, correlates it to the class privilege of their ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 28 2014 - 12:16pm

Scientific Kickstarter project $220 shortly after fun potato salad raised more

My Kickstarter project has closed having raised   $220 out of the needed $250 0 to help me either publish some scientific papers or to buy a telescope for astronomy students to use. Instead of money I got discounts on the publication fees from the journal ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 2 2014 - 9:56pm

Why I Believe We’ll Find Aliens- Seth Shostak

We come in peace. redgum, CC BY-NC-SA By Seth Shostak, SETI Institute ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 4 2014 - 6:06pm

Back To The '80s: Why Nostalgia Is All The Rage In Cinema

The pressure's on JJ Abrams and the new Star Wars films.Credit: wiredphotostream, CC BY-NC By Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, Manchester Metropolitan University ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 30 2014 - 9:28am