Science & Society

Head Start In The South Also Helped Create Future Civil Rights Leaders

A federal preschool program did more than improve educational opportunities for poor children in Mississippi during the 1960s- it created activists.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 3 2015 - 10:41am

The Post-Doc System Is Broken, But Relying On The System That Broke To Fix It Is A Mistake

Over nine years ago, I had launched the Science 2.0 movement and over eight years ago, this site, the communications pillar of Science 2.0, was launched. It didn't take long to find evidence of a problem that I hadn't really considered. The movem ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 22 2019 - 7:05pm

What Book Thieves Tell Us About A Country's Reading Culture

The catalogue of the Johannesburg Public Library in South Africa contains a poignant entry – “Biko, Steve. Long 0verdue”. The entry refers to I Write What I Like, a volume of collected writings by Steve Biko, the Black Consciousness leader tortured to dea ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 29 2015 - 4:46pm

It's Time For Racism In College Admissions To Go

The Shackled Man hypothesis rightly notes that if two people are running a race, and one has leg irons on, the shackled person is going to perform poorly. 50 yards into the race, if we remove the leg irons, claiming that everyone now has an equal chance to ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 1 2015 - 7:36am

For Ph.D. Physicists, Careers Outside Academia Are Terrific

Government-funded science spends a lot of money promoting the idea that only government-funded science is real science, even though almost 60 percent of basic research and almost 100 percent of applied research is done by the private sector. It has worked. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2015 - 7:00am

$4,200 And Up: Millions Of Children's Lives Saved Through Government Programs

More than 34 million children's lives have been saved since 2000 because of investments in child health programs at a cost of as little as $4,205 per child, according to a new analysis in The Lancet. This analysis builds off the work of an internatio ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2015 - 8:28pm

Why We Still Love Alice In Wonderland

Few in the English-speaking world (and even the non-English-speaking world) are unfamiliar with Alice and her encounters with nonsense and play in Wonderland, whether through the original texts, or their many adaptations. Alice has walked across pages, sta ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 5 2015 - 2:34pm

A Call To Ban Individuals From Shooting Off Fireworks

Another Fourth of July is here, the time for backyard barbecues, picnics, cookouts, parades, swimming and fireworks. One of those Independence Day pastimes, however, stands apart: fireworks. They’re a somewhat controversial topic in the US and are covered ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 6 2015 - 7:30am

The Chocolate Hoax Only Fooled Mainstream Media

Think the 'chocolate as miracle food' hoax was something new? ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 22 2019 - 7:06pm

Among Academics, Patent Filings By Women Have Risen The Fastest

Though women outnumber men in all but tenured positions, there is concern that the numbers are still not high enough. If that is true, you wouldn't know it by filing patents with the U.S. Patent and Trade Office over the past 40 years. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2015 - 9:01am