Science & Society

Economic crisis, bank failures and plague in the Middle Ages.

A.D. 1200 has been called the golden age, as characterized by a booming economy combined with widespread prosperity. Europe's population had reached the height of its growth, reaching about 70 million people, beyond which, according to historians, it ...

Blog Post - Camillo Di Cicco - Feb 13 2018 - 7:12am

Why Do Women Die At Higher Rates After Being Discharged With Heart Arrhythmias?

Atrial fibrillation and flutter (also known as AFF) is associated with serious health problems and is a significant contributor to death rates. Knowing that, why would there be different death rates for male and female patients who presented with AFF to em ...

Article - News Staff - May 4 2017 - 12:30pm

Journalists Grieve Death Of Forensic Science Commission

The National Commission on Forensic Science was dissolved by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a decisive action that brought an end to a highly decorated body of professionals, but one that was frequently stymied by legal gamesmanship and discord.  The co ...

Article - John M. Collins - May 12 2017 - 7:57pm

Free Range Kids: Most Parents Won't Let Kids Swim In Their Backyard Without Supervision

A new national poll says that parents are in a panic about things like swimming pools. Least likely to think their kids can swim; black parents. A slight majority of white parents are fine with kids swimming sans parental hovering. Almost all parents think ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2017 - 6:56am

Minority vs. Legal Incompetence: The case for lowering the age of majority to 13

The right to make one’s own legal decisions is typically denied for two reasons: Youth (minority) and incompetence. Incompetence is a state of mental incapacity to make one’s own decisions in a way which is informed with regard to the consequences and rat ...

Blog Post - Nightvid Cole - May 16 2017 - 9:59am

The Future Of Branding

A research firm has just bestowed the title “world’s most valuable insurance brand” on a mainland Chinese company. Other outfits issue similar announcements in diverse industries, despite that in 2014 The Economist made this remark about brands: “Their im ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Jun 6 2017 - 5:59pm

Alan Alda's Art And Science Of Relating And Communicating

You are about to hear a huge sigh of relief from the entire science journalism community, because Alan Alda, a man who can interview E.O. Wilson and Jim Watson with ease, who hosted the terrific Scientific American Frontiers, and founded the Alan Alda Cen ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 12 2017 - 12:35pm

Higgs Boson-Inspired Artwork By High-School Students

The "Art&Science" project is coming to the final phase as far as the activities in Venice are concerned. About 100 15 to 17-year-old students from high schools in Venice have assisted to lessons on particle physics and the Higgs boson in the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 16 2017 - 7:02am

We're Suffering And Dying From Diseases Whose Treatments Are Still Unknown

I have always imagined a future that is free of disease. However, we continue to suffer from diseases such as malaria, cancer, and AIDS for which there is no known cure. To make matters worse, other diseases such as poliomyelitis that were once considered ...

Article - Raul Isea - Jul 11 2017 - 12:20pm

Gender-Blind Recruitment Process Leads To More Men Being Hired

It's been shown that there is no hiring deficit for women in science; women have been hired far more than men for new jobs. Yet women's groups have continued to point to total numbers as the problem, as if to say older men who have been supportiv ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2017 - 9:59pm