Science & Society

Tired Of Netflix? Escape Corona By Remote Partying, Workout Classes, And Gaming!

Being shut in can drive people crazy.  Much of the world is or will be under some degree of quarantine, lockdown, shelter in place or social distancing.  Communicating only remotely and in ways that are often sterile and without interaction. In places lik ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 1 2020 - 3:48pm

Covid-19 Hasn't Closed Your College? Blame The Politicians For Whom Graduation Rates, Optics Matter More Than Lives. UPDATED

C ovid-19 kills young people at a lower rate they are not immune.  The people who run the college, your professors, deans, staff, secretaries, police, range in age from as young as you up to elderly.  If nothing at all is done, then your school would expe ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 2 2020 - 10:34pm

Creating A Black Middle Class Covid-19 Hot Spot And The Complex Role Of Racism In America. OPINION

My tiny mostly Black suburb of Chicago has 446.7 cases of Covid-19 per hundred thousand.  A very disproportionate number of Covid-19 deaths have been of Black people.  Deeply ingrained structural and cultural anti-Blackness has meant that Black people oft ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 6 2020 - 11:49pm

What '5G Causes Coronavirus' Claims Share With Anti-Ag, Anti-Vax, And Anti-Natural Gas Movements- Russia

It's long been hiding in plain sight that Russia funnels money to activist groups in the U.S. that will help their causes. Russia's top two exports are food and energy so it was no surprise when activists began to claim that hydraulic fracturing ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 10 2020 - 8:14am

Coronavirus Causing Conference Cancellations Or A Futuristic Online Life.

T he American Physical Society’s April 2020 meeting is being held as an online event this year due to concerns over Covid-19. This is also true for school and for many people work. Many workers do work which is essential and which cannot be done remotely, ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 18 2020 - 9:06am

FDA Is Providing 'Relief' From Food Label Bureaucracy During COVID-19, So How Important Is It?

Many people have recently discovered that the U.S. CDC is actually not that useful. For some, it came when CDC refused to send hospitals coronavirus tests until they proved to CDC their patients had coronavirus. Then, when the Trump administration forced t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 22 2020 - 12:31pm

Did You Get Fat From The Air You Breathe Or The Pizza You Inhale?

You may have heard of the Freshman 15; the weight gain some college students experience their first year, when they have unlimited dining at the university cafeteria. Coronavirus may leave behind a new pandemic when people emerge from their homes and disco ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 28 2020 - 8:41am

Collective Layoffs Have Repercussions For Companies

Collective layoffs of large groups of workers have been common during the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020. A new paper might inform possible impacts because it analyzed 556 collective layoffs announced between December 2018 and November 2019 across different ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2020 - 1:01am

Anthony Fauci, The Straight Logic Of A Lab As Covid-19 Stepping Stone Between Nature And Pandemic.

D r Fauci is the most trusted public scientist on all matters regarding SARS-COV-2, however he gets his pure logic wrong on the subject of Covid-19’s origin. That scientific research was the transport mechanism for this virus from Southern China to centra ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 5 2020 - 11:26am

Gig Economy Workers Suffer During The Pandemic, And California's Ill-Timed Delivery Service Lawsuit Just Made It Worse

If you had a choice, would you rather set your own hours or work around your schedule around family needs, or would you prefer being forced to go into an office where a corporate manager applies constant pressure to do more in the same amount of time and y ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 5 2020 - 5:06pm