Science & Society

It's "Back To The Future" Day! Where's my Reagan-Themed Restaurant?

The sci-fi comedy "Back To The Future" is a seminal piece of modern cinema. Like "Blade Runner" (and unlike most movies of any kind, much less science fiction, where special effects are important) from the same period, it holds up reall ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 21 2015 - 11:02am

Science On Tap In Manhattan Starring...Me

If you are in Manhattan or one of the five boroughs or New Jersey or Long Island and want a free beer and to talk about science communication, you are invited to join me as guest of honor at the Science On Tap event, October 28th from 6:30-9:30 PM.  The l ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 22 2015 - 11:13am

It's Not Religious People Who See Conflict Between Science And Religion, It's This Group

A representative survey of more than 2,000 U.S. adults finds that 30 percent of Americans say their personal religious beliefs conflict with science, while 68 percent say there is no conflict. A majority(59 percent) say science and religion often conflict, ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2015 - 11:31am

Storing Firearms: Internet Has Misfires For Members Of The AAP

Only 2 percent of Internet pages with information on firearm storage correctly identified all four practices that encompass safe gun storage. In frontier days, gun safety was a given but in the modern era most kids don't grow up around guns- and movi ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2015 - 7:42pm

Why are Women more opposed to Fracking?

A storm has been brewing, over why in Britain women are more opposed to fracking than men.  Whether it is simply a storm in a teacup, or a mighty tornado, time will tell.  Here are three articles in succession, two from the Telegraph: Women ‘don’t understa ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Oct 24 2015 - 11:52am

Ecomodernism Unites Politically Divided Moms

Could Hillary Clinton and Carly Fiorina find agreement on one of the most contentious issues dividing America's two political parties today-- climate change? Is it possible they could move past the debate about who or what causes climate change and f ...

Article - Julie Kelly - Oct 26 2015 - 7:31am

Negative Citations For Papers- Who Writes Them And Why Distance Makes It More Likely

Citations are a time-honored measure now used to assess scholarly standing and evaluate academic productivity by funding committees that control government research. For that reason, citations that are critical in nature, and point out limitations, incons ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2015 - 4:10pm

A Gender Revolution Has Already Happened- Just The Money Hasn't

Women are more likely than men to have a bachelor's degree and a white-collar job. They are also more likely to earn less than male counterparts, finds a new study spanning two generations in the United States. The scholars analyzed U.S. Census socio ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2015 - 4:34pm

The Looming Public Health Workforce Exit

38 percent of state public health workers plan to leave the public health workforce by 2020 but it isn't just retirement, they want to get out of a health care system that is even more micromanaged and financially motivated that when HMOs and insuran ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 2 2015 - 3:45pm

E-Cigarettes Linked To Problem Drinking

It's no secret that cigarettes and heavy drinking are linked, people who engage in risky behaviors tend to do so in multiple ways, but a link to e-cigarettes, which have no tobacco, is new. A paper in Addictive Behaviors also found that more women th ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 9 2015 - 7:19pm