Science & Society

Donut, Cake And Cookie Purchases Declined 24 Percent Since 2005

Ready-to-eat desserts such as cakes, cookies, pies, doughnuts, and pastries add a significant amount of energy, sugar, and saturated fat to Americans' diets, making them a strategic target for cultural pundits and the scholars who arm them with epide ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2015 - 9:00am

6 Science Stories For 2014

2014: the year crystallography went mainstream. CSIRO, CC BY-SA By Mark Lorch, University of Hull ’Tis the season for listicles rounding up the stories of the year. So with, the authority vested in me, here is a selection of six top, bottom and forgotten ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 31 2014 - 8:30am

Thermodynamics and Snow

I think it's time for a little snow- C.P.Snow, that is. Charles Percy Snow was an English physical chemist, novelist and civil servant. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Technology from 1964 to 1966. He presented the 1959 Rede Lectu ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 5 2015 - 12:04pm

Latin American Work Visas Get Approved Less Often

The political football of illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America is well-known but a new study has found that even immigrants with job offers are less likely to have those immigration requests granted- if they are from Latin America, ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 11 2015 - 12:32pm

Air Asia 8501- Some Factual Information

Air Asia 8501- Some Factual Information "Based on the available data regarding the location of the lost aircraft, weather is a factor in the triggering of the incident. The most likely weather phenomenon is cooling air which can cause engine damage d ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 6 2015 - 2:43pm

Tolkien’s Dark Side Of The Machine

To Tolkien, the machine represents a means to attain power over others. His orcs-- deformed and ugly creatures, whose hands are sometimes replaced with weapons-- embody this lust for power. LOTR Wikia By Richard Gunderman, Indiana University-Purdue Univer ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 6 2015 - 7:30pm

Are You Far Left Or Right? You Are Probably Highly Educated Too

The mythology among the people who really care about what is happening on the left or the right is that the people opposite them are uneducated and being exploited by elites. The opposite is true: Polarized people tend to be highly educated. Sorry, Republi ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2015 - 3:43pm

Cartoonists Defiant In Response To Terrorist Attack On Charlie Hebdo

David Pope's cartoon posted on Twitter. David Pope By Robert Phiddian, Flinders University Cartoonists and satirists in “the West” are confronted with the risks of their expressive freedom today as a consequence of the assassinations at Charlie Hebdo ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 8 2015 - 12:14pm

Society Makes It Worse For People Who Self-Harm

Social attitudes are reinforcing the negative beliefs towards people who self harm, according to an analysis of the life stories of people who self-harm and who were also diagnosed with a personality disorder revealed that several spoke of being refused pa ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 9 2015 - 9:01am

Air Asia 8501- Tail Section Raised