Science & Society

Sexual Harassment: The three sins of Christian Ott.

While dating in the workplace is not inherently bad and cannot be effectively forbidden there are certain rules that go with that.  Don’t date subordinates, if you do find them a new supervisor, if you end it don’t also end their employment/threaten their ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jan 18 2016 - 2:36pm

Legal Immigrants Are Vital To US Science And Engineering Workforce

In the 1990s, and more recently during the Obama administration, there has been a wave of protectionism about United States technology and science jobs, with calls to cut visas for foreign-born workers. It's a modern demonization of Asiatics, minus t ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2016 - 3:30pm

UK's Political Center Is Left

In America it seems that Democrats are gaining ground and that therefore the culture is moving to the left. It's actually much different, Democrats have actually moved to the right. President Obama came into office campaigning against two wars but wi ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2016 - 11:56am

Altruism During The Ebola Outbreak: Good Intentions Mirror Level Of Personal Risk

A study of risk communication as it relates to altruistic behavior has found that portraying an event as a distant risk, despite highlighting its importance and potential progression, fails to prompt altruistic behavior intention among the U.S. public. Th ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2016 - 9:04am

How To Avoid Bad Science Writing

Amid the many calls for scientists to engage with the general public, there are some who feel that scientists ought to remain aloof and disconnected from the broader public. They believe academics shouldn’t even attempt to communicate their research to co ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 15 2016 - 7:30am

Citizen Science Contributions Increasingly Common

Citizen science, amateurs who did science for the love of it rather than as a career, were once well-respected. They were often more elite than those who did it as an occupation, much like Sherlock Holmes was a superior detective because he was an amateur ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2016 - 7:31am

The fuzzy science of “brain training”

Brain training has come into the spotlight with Tuesday’s announcement by the Federal Trade Commission that the popular website Lumosity will be forced to pay a $2 million settlement for making false advertising claims. ...

Blog Post - Brandon T. Bisceglia - Jan 16 2016 - 8:47pm

Eating Food like Great-Grandma's: the natural way to reduce life expectancy

I live north of Harbin Hot Springs, a "health resort," which catered (it burned in the 2015 Valley Fire) to new-age types  who have yet have to find an alternative-anything that they don't like. Alternative medicine. Alternatives to clothing ...

Blog Post - Norm Benson - Jan 20 2016 - 9:57am

Most Americans Don't Know What Smart Guns Can Really Do, But They Support Them

Nearly 60 percent of Americans, if they buy a new handgun, are willing to purchase a smart gun-- operable in the hands of an authorized user-- which is not really a surprise after the entertainment news program "60 Minutes" featured them in Nove ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2016 - 7:58pm

Sexual Tensions and the Numbers Game a Systemic Issue Behind #astroSH

At all levels of academic science men outnumber women by a great deal.  Whites outnumber black by a even larger margin regardless of sex or gender.   Out LGBT are outnumbered by an even larger margin.  Without loss of generality I hypothesize that MOST of ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jan 22 2016 - 6:33pm