Science & Society
- Back To The '80s: Why Nostalgia Is All The Rage In Cinema
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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
- Abortions Don’t Cause Cancer Any More Than Parties Do
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Research that found links between abortion and breast cancer also found men who had 'much opportunity to participate in parties' were more likely to have stomach cancer. Credit: burningmax/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA By Louise Keogh, University of Melbo ...
Article - The Conversation - Aug 31 2014 - 3:00pm
- Dehumanization Of Women? Jack The Ripper's Forgotten Victims
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Jack The Ripper is famous- everyone in the Western world has heard of the unsolved case of the Whitechapel serial killer who preyed on prostitutes for a few months in 1888. There were only five (or six) of those murders almost 130 years ago yet today there ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 31 2014 - 12:09pm
- Neil Tyson On The Politics Of Science Denial
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Spend any time in American science media and you may find some of them are pretty far out of the political mainstream; so far out, they may not even be friends with anyone who has not always voted the same way as them. So it's unsurprising that much o ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 1 2014 - 7:43pm
- 21st Century Toasters- Why Utilities Want You To Buy That Electric Car
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Why would anyone bake bread and then turn around and toast it? I lived in a Pennsylvania house heated by wood. The idea of using our manual labor, in the form of wood, to toast bread was silly- but we owned an electric toaster. Somehow, being removed from ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 20 2018 - 2:58pm
- Weak Core Linked To More Missed Days For Baseball Pitchers
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It's the home stretch of the professional baseball season and that means players are more likely to be tired or sustain an injury. New research suggests that a stronger core might help. In the study, 347 pitchers were assessed for lumbopelvic control ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 2 2014 - 2:29pm
- Retracted Papers Stigmatize, Jeopardize Solid Research In Related Fields
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Should scientists handle retractions differently? Peer review cannot catch everything. In many papers, there is no peer review at all, it is editorial review that checks off a few boxes and relies on post-publication peer review to find flaws. That makes ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2014 - 11:02am
- 4 Weird Ideas People Used To Have About Women’s Periods
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By Helen King, The Open University It wasn’t that long ago that it was believed that regular periods were essential for women's health and in their absence, a loss of blood through another orifice was a fair substitute. In a classical Greek text link ...
Article - The Conversation - Sep 4 2014 - 11:31am
- Muslim Feminists Reclaim The Hijab To Fight The Patriarchy
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Article - The Conversation - Sep 5 2014 - 9:54pm
- We Need To Talk About The Sexual Abuse Of Scientists
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Scientists can be victims of sexual abuse from their peers just as in any institution. Credit: Minerva Studio By Margaret C. Hardy, The University of Queensland The life sciences have come under fire recently with a study published in PLOS ONE that invest ...
Article - The Conversation - Sep 7 2014 - 6:39pm