Science & Society

AAAS Officially Makes Itself An Arm Of The Democratic Party

The worst kept secret in science media, what one honest liberal blogger called The White Elephant In The Room, is its overwhelming partisanship. It's easy to rationalize that. If Republicans are anti-science then naturally the biggest defenders and ch ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 23 2019 - 11:04am

TransAsia GE235 crash- Plane Missed Power Cables

TransAsia GE235 crash- Plane Missed Power Cables The Transasia ATR 72-600 which crashed into the Keelung river narrowly missed flying into high voltage power cables strung across the Keelung river.  Flight into those high voltage power distribution cables ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 7 2015 - 11:06pm

Citations: The Intellectual Premier League

Bronks/Wikimedia Commons By Mark Beeson, Professor of International Politics at University of Western Australia Of the many things academics obsess about, few rank more highly than citation counts. We all like to think our work is at least read by our pee ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 8 2015 - 9:00am

Lift The Ban On Oil And Gas Exports And Strengthen The US

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Article - The Conversation - Feb 10 2015 - 3:32pm

TransAsia GE235 Accident- Taxi, Transmission Lines and FDR details

The TransAsia GE235 Accident- The Taxi, the Transmission Lines and the FDR- some details The skills of the pilots of GE235 have been questioned.  The mere fact that Transasia is requiring its pilots to undergo tests is not proof of pilot error.  It is mos ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 11 2015 - 6:25pm

Men Do Want Commitment...If Women Are Scarce

The gender stereotype is that women want commitment and men want sex- but a study of the Makushi people in Guyana upends that, finding that men more likely to seek long-term relationships. Why? Because women are in short supply so a lack of commitment is ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2015 - 2:18pm

Porn Or Not? Fifty Shades Of Grey Anxiety Was A 17th Century Worry Too

Is Fifty Shades Of Grey porn, or not? © Universal Pictures The imminent release of Fifty Shades of Grey has already provoked widespread protest, although the protesters have not actually seen it. The Guardian recently proclaimed: “This is not a porn film. ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 12 2015 - 9:30pm

Credentialism: Alma Mater Predicts Chances Of Getting A Faculty Job

In a perfect world, job success would be a meritocracy, but academia does not really work that way, it has lots of social justice parameters and guidelines and quotas, both stated and implicit, and so once all that has been factored in, all things being eq ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2015 - 3:40pm

Norwegian Women Accept Inequality, If It's For Family

Norwegian women who choose to have children often say goodbye to their careers. Men, on the other hand, tarry on. Norway has, since the 1800s, come a long way towards a more egalitarian society, but when a child enters the relationship between a woman and ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 20 2015 - 11:32am

Urban Scaling: Bigger Is More Efficient For Cities, Just Like In Ancient Times

Cities may not look like they once looked, but those of ancient times and today had a lot in common when it came to intangibles. Despite notable differences in appearance and governance, ancient human settlements function in much the same way as modern cit ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 20 2015 - 9:38pm