Science & Society

Spornosexual: Not Paying Enough Taxes Linked To Men Wanting To Become Famous

There is no question that in recent decades academics have veered sharply left, and none more so than the humanities fields- but linking government spending to male body image may have set a new standard. Whereas the academic left used to attack the right ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2016 - 5:58am

Swing Voters Win Elections, So Why Do Presidential Candidates Ignore Them?

In 2012, Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney was criticized for speaking an uncomfortable truth; 47 percent of voters are voting for the same party regardless of the actual policies. In academic science, the turnout will be huge for Democratic n ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2016 - 10:41am

Why 9/11 Terrorism Efforts Focused On Illegal Immigration

America had an illegal alien problem long before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, but with the border to Mexico so porous, homeland security quickly focused on heightening surveillance- and this racialized Latino immigrants, according to a soc ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 21 2016 - 8:28am

State Of Academic Freedom 2016

This is the reply after asking a scientist to endorse putting a draft of an article into a more fitting category on the arXiv, which is a mere preprint archive (not a journal or anything like that) where I already put almost 20 articles, and the endorsemen ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Aug 29 2016 - 11:32pm

Plastic Surgery Tackles Inequality

Female plastic surgeons need more equitable representation in leadership roles, according to an op-ed in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. "Women bring unique qualities to leadership, yet there remain barriers to gender equality," according to ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 31 2016 - 9:32am

Does Labor Day Matter When Only 62 Percent Of The Labor Force Is Participating?

We see all of the rosy claims coming from the Federal government about unemployment rates yet around us we see no one can buy a home, young people have resigned themselves to living with their parents, and the deficit this year has climbed at a rate that i ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 1 2016 - 2:53pm

Welcome to Chemophobifornia; don't drink golden water

California, chemaphobia, and the 'Erin Brockovich chemical' (Chromium-6) Chromium 6 found in elementary school's drinking water On March 11, 2016, Coyote Valley Elementary School near Middletown, California (north of San Francisco), started ...

Blog Post - Norm Benson - Sep 24 2016 - 10:04am

Free Speech in Bestest Year Ever: The Desperate 2016 Shutdown Breaks Dam

Usually the arXiv does time wasting nasty things like delay and then re-categorize articles with inconvenient truths into unsuitable categories where nobody of the target audience will find it and the usual audience is not interested. This however is 2016, ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 8 2016 - 9:43pm

Being Gay May Help Politicians

Experts often advise even openly gay and lesbian candidates to downplay their sexual orientation or risk losing votes, but David Niven, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati, claimed at the annual meeting of the Ameri ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2016 - 5:49pm

Bereavement Customs Sociology Mostly Focuses On WASPs

Humanities scholars mostly focus on the bereavement customs of White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) whereas Catholics, the overwhelming majority of Latinos, are overlooked in their unique funeral customs, which sometimes include overnight wakes and pres ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2016 - 7:00am