Science & Society

Environmentalism Win: DuPont Pioneer Creates Unemployed People In Kaua'i

DuPont Pioneer, the seed company that sells corn, sorghum, alfalfa, etc. and was considering expanding Kaua'i operations just a few years ago, has decided instead to close its Parent seed operations there. Like with astronomy, seed operations have bee ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 20 2015 - 9:00pm

Cold Weather Kills 20 Times As Many People As Hot Weather

In 2003, while French youth protested American imperialism, 14,000 mostly elderly people were allowed to die in a heat wave. Heat waves kill a lot more people, it is believed, except they don't. Instead, an analysis of  74 million deaths in 384 locat ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2015 - 7:50pm

Early Christian Apocalypse: St. Paul Gave Us Heaven And Hell Many Times Over

Early Christian writers were fond of putting words into other people’s mouths. When the apostle Paul (the theologian formerly known as Saul of Tarsus) wrote to the church in Corinth about a particularly significant religious experience, he informed them t ...

Article - The Conversation - May 24 2015 - 8:00am

EU Grants Submitted And Won: Some Statistics

The European Union has released some data on the latest call for applications for ITN grants. These are "training networks" where academic and non-academic institutions pool up to provide innovative training to doctoral students, in the meanting ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 21 2015 - 11:46am

New Shakespeare Portrait Controversy Misses The Big Picture

Historian Mark Griffiths claims to have cracked a code in an Elizabethan book on botany to discover a true portrait of Shakespeare made within the bard’s own lifetime. The find has been hailed as “the literary discovery of the century” by the editor of Co ...

Article - The Conversation - May 21 2015 - 3:30pm

The 3 Biggest Obstacles To Higher Company Productivity

239 representatives from Finnish small and medium-sized businesses responded to new survey  by the Lappeenranta University of Technology about external and internal obstacles for productivity improvement experienced by companies. The results of the survey ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2015 - 11:12am

Many Women Buy Products Because Models Are Thin, But There's A Market For Normal

Fashion is a huge industry and they use thin models because creating an ideal- the belief that women will look like that if they buy the clothes- is a time-honored strategy. Yet as more American women become overweight and obese, and it becomes more diffi ...

Article - News Staff - May 22 2015 - 1:11pm

Illegal Immigration To The U.S. Caused By Globalization?

Many illegal aliens from Latin America risk migrating to the United States because they are fleeing from desperate situations and see opportunities to help their families, even though they will be stuck low-paying, labor-intensive jobs. ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2015 - 8:49am

Canada Lags Far Behind Other Countries In New Medicines

If you want cheap medicine, Canadian taxpayers make it possible to get a great deal, but when it comes to new medicines, Canada is behind similar countries, according to a new report which ranks it 16th out of 18 comparable OECD countries.  Only 23% of 141 ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2015 - 3:27pm

Risk Management Turned Upside Down

A true story. To protect the innocent – and the writer – I’ll use no names. The president of a large, multi-national engineering and construction firm decided to attract more contracts by reducing customers’ risks. A sound decision, yes?  It was what he d ...

Article - Fred Phillips - May 23 2015 - 12:42pm