Science & Society

6,000 Years Of Climate Change Through Egyptian History

If depictions of animals in ancient Egyptian artifacts are an accurate climate record, they have helped scholars assemble a detailed record of the large mammals that lived in the Nile Valley over the past 6,000 years. They then determined that species ext ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 9:00am

Multicultural Dora The Explorer Grows Up, But She Won't Make All Kids Bilingual

Dora grows up. Credit: Lisa West Photography, CC BY-NC-ND By Bruce Fuller, University of California, Berkeley ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 9 2014 - 8:00am

Why Global Contributions To Wikipedia Are So Unequal

Critical mass of editors could help solve the puzzle.Credit: bastique, CC BY-SA By Mark Graham, University of Oxford ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 9 2014 - 8:52pm

A Good Reason To Do Re-Analysis Of Failed Clinical Trial Data

It's uncommon for there to be reanalyses of data from randomized clinical trials (RCTs)- once a product has failed, it isn't smart to keep putting more money into it. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 6:35pm

18 Percent Of Nurses Leave First Job Within A Year, 33 Percent Within Two Years

Like most young people, the first job is not the best job and they will often leave when a better opportunity comes along.  There is strong demand for nurses so it's no surprise that there is turnover among young ones. Once they prove they can do the ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 1:30pm

Divorce Boosts Behavioral Problems In High-Income Families

Before they reach young adulthood, many children in the United States will experience their parents separating, divorcing, finding another partner or getting remarried.  When families change structure, it is more common for children to exhibit behavior pr ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 1:24pm

New Evidence Points To Old Jack The Ripper Suspect – but Here Is Why I’m Not Convinced

A Ripper murder, Illustrated Police news, c. 1888. By Rosalind Crone, The Open University A panic erupted in Britain 126 years ago. At daybreak on Saturday September 8, the mutilated body of Annie Chapman, a prostitute, had been found in the back yard of ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 10 2014 - 11:30am

Male Scientists Forsake Careers For Family- Or The Other Way Around

Though perception is that academia is harder on women when it comes to career and families, and they need to adopt a more corporate approach to penalize mothers less, it isn't just women; one third of men in academic science scale back their careers ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2014 - 4:02pm

Usurped By Legend: A Review Of Matthew Gavin Frank’s ‘Preparing The Ghost’

When you read something in a book, do you believe it? You might say, “Of course not if it’s fiction,” but well-researched historical or science fiction can offer plenty of accurate information, entertainingly packaged. Nonfiction, on the other hand, might ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Sep 14 2014 - 10:15am

No books for you! City Colleges of Chicago Students.

Students at the City Colleges of Chicago may have to do without textbooks until as late as mid October.  While the students are as bright as any they need their books, for reference, and a sense of security.  They need reassurance that what they are about ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 18 2014 - 10:42am