Science & Society
- 60 Percent: Why Are Australians So Abusive Online?
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Sixty percent of Australians have been the target of online harassment and abuse, with women and young adults most likely to report being sexually harassed online. One in 10 adults said someone had shared a nude or semi-nude image of them without their co ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2015 - 7:17pm
- Who Uses Electronic Cigarettes In The US?
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Scholars have additional evidence that among U.S. adults some recent cigarette quitters may have done so with the assistance of electronic cigarettes. The research informs the ongoing debate as to whether e-cigarettes are effective aids for smoking cessat ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 16 2015 - 6:31pm
- End Racist Sexism At US Universities Now
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More than half, namely 60% of college graduates are female. Is this discrimination against men? And is the currently loudly demanded (and at Missouri University apparently well received) number of 10% Black faculty reasonable, or is this rather racist ant ...
Article - Sascha Vongehr - Dec 30 2015 - 9:53pm
- You Knew This: Half Of Children Reject Parents' Political Party Affiliation
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Recently, the American actress Jennifer Lawrence said she could never be a Republican even though she was 'raised' Republican. To the American public, that was no surprise, it is quite common for kids to rebel in lots of ways, including in polit ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2015 - 7:30am
- Less Urbanization Linked To More More Social Cohesion, Less Crime
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Though more urbanization has been linked by activists to better environment and various other social engineering desires, science has instead demonstrated the benefits of contact with nature for human well-being. Rather than criticizing rural life while l ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 3 2015 - 8:01am
- Mobile Drift: Digital Deadwalking Is A Serious Issue For You, Not Me
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When you see someone wandering all over the street because they are on the phone, it is irksome. When you have to reply to a text, not so much. At Science 2.0 we call this phenomenon "mobile drift" but the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeon ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2015 - 1:18pm
- Dave Goulson’s Got Another Case Of The Butterflies
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Dave Goulson’s latest anti-pesticide study is sure to thrill his activist backers. The University of Sussex biology professor has a new study concerning declining butterfly populations in the UK, which he claims “adds to the growing mountain of evidence th ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 3 2015 - 9:30am
- Science Output: Putting The Public Back Into Publication
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Earlier this year, I visited the library at the Australian National University with my son so he could borrow some books for an essay on Chinese history. Wandering past shelf after shelf, he asked me, “How does it feel to be writing another book that no-o ...
Article - The Conversation - Dec 7 2015 - 8:50am
- Only 29 Percent Of US Scientists See Science And Religion In Conflict
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Though activists on the poles of science and religion see science and religion as being in conflict, most in science and most of the public do not. Instead, most recognize 'non-overlapping magisteria' and leave the philosophical subjects aside t ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2015 - 7:30am
- Bagels And Smoked Meat: Jewish Cuisine Punching Above Its Paunch
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The first mention of the bagel is in a 1610 text in a sumptuary law from the city of Krakow but in the late 19th century doughnut-shaped bread and smoked meat became popular in the New World thanks to successive waves of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Eur ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2015 - 12:43pm