Science & Society

America Is Joining China When It Comes To Few Wanting To Get Married

The biggest shopping day of the year is not Amazon Prime Day, nor is it Black Friday, it is instead on November 11th- Singles Day. China has so many unmarried people they turned it into a shopping celebration. In Sweet Lemons Rationalization, if you are un ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 3 2023 - 9:22am

Interdisciplinary Science, Art, And A Prize Festival At The 8th USERN Congress

The 8th Congress of the USERN Organization  took place during the past three days (November 8-10, 2023) at the RAU University in Yerevan, Armenia, and it was a complete success, which has left me overwhelmed by the amount of great interdisciplinary science ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 10 2023 - 1:41pm

A Torino Scale For Artificial Intelligence, And What To Do With It

In recent times, artificial intelligence has become ubiquitous. Besides powering our cellphones, directing what advertisements we get when we browse internet or read our emails, and creating content in the media, AI-powered hardware is more and more wides ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 27 2023 - 11:15am

Most Baby Daddy's Show Positive Co-Parenting

In the United States, 40 percent of births are to unmarried women, and there are nearly 13.6 million single parents raising over 21 million children. In 84 percent of cases, the single-parent homes are women. They are often low income. That doesn't me ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2023 - 9:29am

Coffee And Why Good Morning America Is Not A Science Program

Good Morning America is doing its part for scare journalism, this time telling us that if one computer prediction about global warming is correct, there won't be any wild coffee beans left. Relax, GMA, your guy already won the election, you don't ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 5 2023 - 7:54am

U.S. Right To Know: Queasy Links To Anti-Vax Conspiracy Groups Hint At Their Bias Against All Science

Writing in The Daily Beast, William Bredderman notes that the self-proclaimed whistleblower organization US Right To Know has a seedy undercurrent of malevolence; its relationship to the anti-vaccine movement.  Welcome to the party. Get ready for your read ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 8 2023 - 1:34pm

One In Three Women Would End A Relationship Over An 'Inadequate' Christmas Gift- Survey

Research by dating site FreeDating.co.uk found that 36% of women would end a relationship over an 'inadequate' Christmas gift.  This was particularly the case when the present was the latest in a series of disappointing let-downs within the rela ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2023 - 12:00pm

Science Communication In Cosmetics

Cosmetics have been used for millennia, and in every family, there are mythical beauty treatments, and all over social media, there are skincare routines that belong in a dystopian science fiction novel, and not on your skin. Dr. ...

Article - Mark Pierce - Dec 13 2023 - 11:30am

6 Medical Myths Debunked For Christmas

In a study published in the Christmas 2008 issue of the British Medical Journal (and not one of their prank articles), Aaron Carroll, M.D., M.S., and Rachel Vreeman, M.D., M.S., of the Indiana University School of Medicine, explore the science behind six ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2023 - 4:16pm

Why Strong Artificial Intelligences Need Protection From Us- Not Us From Them

Many people including Stephen Hawkings and Elon Musk are worried about the possibility of an artificial program that might become intelligent and take over the world. The idea is that at some point in the future we may be able to develop artificial intell ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 14 2023 - 8:54am