Science & Society

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

Third Non-Browning Arctic Apple Approved By USDA

The third non-browning Arctic apple variety- yes, using science- the Arctic Fuji, has been approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS). Science has shown they are the same as conventional apples, ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2016 - 3:55pm

Is Corbyn Right About The Bomb?- Op Ed

Jeremy Corbyn has recently been re-elected to leader of the labour party in the UK with an even stronger mandate than before of 62% of the vote, as many of you will know. This opens up the possibility of a future prime minister of the UK who has said that ...

Article - Robert Walker - Feb 2 2019 - 4:38am

Grim New World?

Are we heading for a Grim New World?  It looks like it, from two short articles that I have recently read.  One, from today, is Why I am publishing all my texts, emails and messages to the internet in real time.  The author, Mark Farid, writes: ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Sep 28 2016 - 6:43am

EPA Again Delays Report On Safety Of Glyphosate

The Environmental Protection Agency appears to be punting a final decision on the safety of a controversial weedkiller into the next administration. Since 2009, the agency has been conducting a registration review of glyphosate- one of the world most wide ...

Article - Julie Kelly - Oct 20 2016 - 10:10am

How Men Are Fixing The Workplace Equality Gap

It is still true that far more men than women have leading roles in many organizations. If you ask women to explain this, as many researchers have, they point to workplace culture as a prime culprit. ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 25 2016 - 7:00am

Debunking: A President Of The US Could Order A Nuclear Attack At A Moments Notice On A Whim

Summary: Legally the president makes the decision and everyone else then scurries around and follows his or her orders; in practice it's not going to be that simple in peace time especially. He or she doesn’t just have a button to press and the weapo ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 1 2017 - 10:39am

2016 Presidential Elections- Math Behind The Mess

In a world where individuals have ranked preferences, it is not possible to create a voting procedure that is guaranteed to yield a fair selection between more than two alternatives. This is a mathematical certainty: in 1951 Nobel laureate Kenneth Arrow ga ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Nov 6 2016 - 5:01pm

Why Big Business Couldn’t Stop Trump

If corporate money controls our politics, as Bernie Sanders and others have claimed, then how did the Republican Party – the reputed party of business – manage to nominate a candidate whom almost no one in Big Business supports? And why have so many been ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2016 - 9:44am

Environmentalists Have Gone To Their Bunkers Over Trump

Environmentalists almost certainly cost Secretary Hillary Clinton the election and now they want to act as a violent alternative to President-elect Trump. President Obama had consistently sided with environmentalists over jobs- an example was the Keystone ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 9 2016 - 4:08pm