Science & Society

Meat Myth Debunked: It Is Not Worse For The Environment To Go By Bike Than Car

Like with car pool lanes, the rationale for more bicycling infrastructure is that if they are built, more people will use them, and it will save the environment, public health, etc. but like with car pool lanes, the reality turns out to be different. In a ...

Article - News Staff - May 16 2015 - 10:30am

Pests In Paradise

Our adventure started here after an 8-mile hike to Snowmass Lake near Aspen, Colorado I learned something very important about crop pests in a most unexpected setting – a paradise-like wilderness area in the Colorado Rockies.  It was the summer of 1978 an ...

Article - Steve Savage - May 13 2015 - 9:28am

Laffer Curve Of Fashion? Average-Sized Models Could Sell More Clothes

Does anyone actually buy the clothes that show up on runways a few times per year? People do, and the thinking goes that in order to sell them, models need to look thin. Some cultural advocates have insisted that overweight women who look more 'real& ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2015 - 10:48am

Australia, Algae, And Abalone

Once again, your resident tellytraveller has turned his gaze to the Southern Hemisphere, this time with second series of Coast Australia.  Episode 8 took us to New South Wales, and most spectacularly to Jervis Bay, a little under 200 km south of Sydney. ...

Article - Robert H Olley - May 16 2015 - 2:45am

Not Just Baby Mozart- All Music Is Good For Kids

The benefits of music education are widely reported. Playing an instrument has been shown to have significant cognitive benefits. Creative thinking, social and emotional intelligence, coordination, memorization and auditory processing are all thought to i ...

Article - The Conversation - May 19 2015 - 8:00am

51 Percent Of Consumers Think An Organic Label Is Just An Excuse To Charge More

Organic products would seem tailor-made for shoppers seeking foods and beverages that are healthier for them, their families and the planet, but a new analysis reveals that most Americans perceive the organic label as nothing more than an excuse to sell p ...

Article - News Staff - May 19 2015 - 8:30am

Why Does The Public Worry About GM Foods But Embrace Biotech Medicine?

Can scientists learn from listening to public reaction to the products they develop? And should they? As a philosopher by training (and as a science journalist by profession) I am delving into ethical questions surrounding genetic modification. My reflect ...

Article - Genetic Literacy ... - May 20 2015 - 7:30am

Dance Festivals And Teenage Drug Use Linked

In recent years, the popularity of "electronic dance music" (EDM) and dance festivals has increased substantially throughout the US and worldwide. Even though data from national samples suggests drug use among adolescents in the general US popul ...

Article - News Staff - May 22 2015 - 1:52am

S!!t literally $82,000 below her Pay Grade: Help Grundy Earn Appropriately

An open letter to the office of the president of Boston University  Dear Sirs! ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - May 20 2015 - 2:45am

Even A Well-Respected Political Scientist Doesn't Know When His Own Data Has Been Faked

A paper in Science has been retracted- by the senior author. Because he did not know the data in his paper was fake. Whether that makes political science or the peer review system look worse will be a matter of debate. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 22 2015 - 11:13am