Science & Society

Outreach Needed? Boys Lag Behind Girls In Academic Achievement

A lot of cultural angst and even more money is tied up in the notion that girls are somehow being left behind and more awareness of the issue, along with programs against sexism, have become common, even at the graduate levels of universities. But the orig ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2015 - 9:00am

Multiculturalism Is Not Dead

Multiculturalism was once a good thing- people learned about the world outside their own neighborhoods- but it has become bad. Instead of being a positive, multiculturalism is often invoked by people with an agenda; people who want to promote division amon ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2015 - 11:07am

Collectivism Ruins Creativity

Every business wants to capitalize on imagination and innovation- but a corporate structure may be the wrong way to promote it. And if you really want to kill creativity, have social authoritarians in government controlling your culture. Collectivism is b ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2015 - 7:01pm

What Medical Journalists Think About Cancer Research- And Press Releases

Self-administered questionnaires sent to 364 Japanese medical journalists allowed them to describe their experiences in selecting stories, choosing angles, and performing research when creating cancer-centered news pieces. The journalists report that they ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2015 - 9:00am

2013 Sequester Was Not The Fault Of Republicans Or Democrats, It Was The Fault Of Men

In 2013, President Obama threatened to shut down the government if Congress did not do what he wanted. Congress replied in kind and so we got The Sequester, where government functions were halted unless they were specially exempted. NASA and the National S ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2015 - 12:04pm

Democrats Redeemed? Republicans More Anti-Vaccine, Says Paper

Though the anti-vaccine hotbeds in the United States are strongest in regions that are overwhelmingly Democratic, a new paper says it may not be Democrats that are most anti-vaccine. Why would they be? the authors argue, when Democrats like government the ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2015 - 11:18am

Sexual Behavior Of Female College Students Has Gotten More Risky

A new study indicates that sexual behavior among female university students in Sweden has changed during the last 25 years, with behavior now appearing more risky than before. The surveys were taken as part of contraceptive counseling delivered at a Studen ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2015 - 12:41pm

Is It Time For The Disney Princess Archetype To Go?

Women – and little girls even more so – are desperate to see images and stories that don’t actively oppress them onscreen, says Olivia Murphy. Image: Nadia Mel, CC BY-SA By Olivia Murphy, University of Sydney ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 2 2015 - 5:32pm

Mary Morgan, Alice Ball And Rachel Lloyd- 3 Amazing Scientists You've Never Heard Of

One saved the U.S. space program, another invented a better treatment for leprosy and a third spawned an industry in the American Midwest- but you have probably never heard of these female "legends of chemistry". Their names are Mary Sherman Morg ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2015 - 8:44pm

Austerity In Greece Linked To Suicides

Does only spending what you make lead to suicide? In the world of weak observational studies, it can. Suicides in Greece reached a 30 year all-time high in 2012, with a sustained upward trend starting in June 2011, the month that the government introduced ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2015 - 5:23pm