Science & Society

Thanksgiving Pie Report: One Pumpkin To Rule Them All

According to a Delta Dental survey out today, American adults overwhelmingly want a little pumpkin at Thanksgiving, it has 36 percent favorability, more than double that of American's next favorite Thanksgiving pie, pecan, which ekes out only 15 perce ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 23 2016 - 12:40pm

Great Scott! Climate Change Deniers Accept Models!

Great Scott! Climate Change Deniers Accept Models! A recent study of old log books, coupled with the use of computer modelling of ice estimates show that the summer sea ice edge then was further from the land in the Weddell sea but that ice conditions were ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Nov 23 2016 - 9:46pm

Democrat Postmortem: They Had Merely Become What They Had Hated All Along 2/2

If there was one theme that qualified the new politically correct definition of morality in higher education it was the idea that the new Affirmative Action professoriate wanted to do away with everything about civilization that white men had created. If ...

Article - Alex Durig - Dec 20 2016 - 12:37pm

John Glenn, Astronaut, and Senator dead at 95. A Milennial Perspective

John Glenn one of the first seven NASA Astronauts and a former Senator of many terms has died at the age of 95.  His life was rich and full and at this point his loss is not a tragedy.  All that is left to say is God Speed John Glenn.  May you now explore ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 8 2016 - 4:20pm

Life at City Colleges of Chicago as an Adjunct Professor.

T he City Colleges of Chicago treats adjunct faculty like full timers when it comes to workloads but pays us worse than a full time fast food worker in Chicago IL.  I am the treasurer of this local of the IEA-NEA which covers seven campuses spread across ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 15 2016 - 1:09am

Doomsday Debunked- Nibiru Is Nuts- What About Nuclear War, Asteroid Impacts, Runaway Warming,...

We've had fake news world ending prophecies for centuries. But now we have exaggerated scientific scenarios to add to the list, so that we can get scared by asteroid impacts, nuclear war, runaway warming and so on. These are mixed with pseudoscience, ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 24 2016 - 9:36am

Nibiru Bullshit Tester- How To Check If They Know Anything About Astronomy

Nibiru easily ranks as the pseudoscience doomsday scenario I get most questions about. Many people, including teenagers, are terrified that we are all about to be killed by a planet called Nibiru which they think is going to hit Earth or do a close flyby ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 6 2017 - 2:47pm

ACA Penalties Force Hospitals To Stop Readmitting Patients

If you are sick and need to be readmitted to the hospital after already spending time there, your chances of being allowed back in have dropped since the weight of federal law has imposed penalties on readmissions under the Affordable Care Act, in an effor ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 26 2016 - 8:58pm

Lang may yer lum reek – especially in Alaska

In Scotland, traditional New Year greeting is Lang may yer lum reek meaning “long may your chimney smoke”.  So may you never be short of fuel for your fire. So, if I understand this article rightly, this might be a bit difficult for Alaskans in 2017. EPA T ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 31 2016 - 12:41pm

Scientists For Trump In Spite Of Vaccine Autism And Climate Comments

Alternative Title: “Inevitable ‘ Society of Walls ’ versus the True Legacy of Donald Trump: Dear Donald, please reform Academia! ” Confusion and misinformation are so intense in our time that even my readers, though at the right end of the IQ Bell curve, ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jan 9 2017 - 11:45pm