Science & Society

The Politics And Economics Of Net Neutrality

Do you have a right to high-speed Internet or can Internet Service Providers (ISPs) create different tiers for different customers? In Florida and in Pennsylvania, there are toll roads. People pay the fee and get to a destination along the toll road quick ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2014 - 11:14am

Family-Friendly Workplace Policies Make People Happy, But Don't Affect Turnover Rates

It's no secret that a happy worker is a productive worker and a new analysis by scholars at The University of Texas at Dallas finds that family-friendly policies are beneficial for increasing productivity of employees. Yet the benefit for employers i ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2014 - 1:18pm

Liberal And Conservative Genetic Woo: How Behavioral Genetics Reporting Can Mislead The Public

A study of 1,500 Americans found that media reports about behavioral genetics create unfounded beliefs about what genes can and cannot do, which defeats the purpose of scientific reporting, according to a new analysis. American adults lead the world in sci ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2014 - 9:30am

The Confluence Of Pop Music And Science

How much science is in pop music? Can pop culture enhance science communication? A sociology duo recently explored the occurrence of science in the lyrics of Taiwanese pop music. Their results revealed that expressions from the field of astronomy and space ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2014 - 8:00am

Immigration Recitivism: Illegal Immigrants Who Go To Jail More Likely To Be Rearrested Later

Illegal aliens who have been deported from the United States are more than 2.5 times more likely to be rearrested after leaving jail, and are likely to be rearrested much more frequently than those who have never been removed, according to a new RAND Corp ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2014 - 1:13pm

Being Raised By A Single Mother Is The New Normal

Divorce rates have gone down; the oft-cited 1970s statistic that 'half of all marriages end in divorce' was never really correct, but the belief that it was made divorce much more common. More young people today are also avoiding divorce by avoi ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2014 - 11:44pm

“There Was More Than One Lobster Present At The Birth Of Jesus?”

Neapolitans have given fishmongers and celebrities alike a place at the nativity for hundreds of years. acetosa888, CC BY-SA By Jessica Hughes, The Open University There’s a scene in the film "Love Actually" where a little girl announces that sh ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 17 2014 - 9:00am

Gun Trends In The 21st Century

Gun ownership in the United States has gone way up yet murders have plummeted. Though high-profile tragedies get mainstream media attention, the gun ban contingent has lost a lot of ground in culture.  ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2014 - 6:50pm

By 2014, If West Wing Science And Medicine Were Real Life...

A solid 12 years after most of its audience stopped watching "The West Wing", I decided to start- all 154 episodes. In the interest of transparency, I disclose I skipped two- one was a retrospective and one was nothing but a debate between two ch ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 30 2014 - 1:32pm

Only One Third Of Dr. Oz Show Recommendations Is Believable, Finds Analysis

Televisiom programs such as "The Dr. Oz Show" and "The Doctors" have attracted massive followings, primarily due to having charismatic hosts who clearly mean well, coupled with a public desire to know the science basis for how we funct ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2014 - 6:15pm