Science & Society

Life Expectancy During Recession

A recent LiveScience article " Recession May Boost Life Expectancy " suggests that economic downturns may boost the life expectancy of the population.  The conclusions suggest that, while not specific to individuals, the general effects of an eco ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Oct 2 2009 - 2:39pm

Francis Crick as Late Bloomer

For all of you postdocs who worry about an uncertain future, endure low pay, fret about getting stuck on uninspiring research, then you might take heart from the example of Francis Crick. In late 1953, at the age of 37, Francis Crick began his postdoc in t ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 3 2009 - 4:06pm

Walmart- the new farmer's market?

Can Walmart sell nutrition better than the U.S. government? Honestly, it might be able to, says agricultural trade policy analyst Sallie James in this NPR report. James says it's not economically feasible for the vast majority of Americans to buy and ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Oct 5 2009 - 10:19am

College Students Get Some Voting Respect

Outreach campaigns like 'Rock the Vote' don't generally do a lot for the image of young voters- if you're in the tank for one party the other party gives up on you and your own party takes you for granted because they are going after un ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2009 - 12:23pm

Religious And Skeptics Not All That Different, Reasoning Wise, Says Neuroimaging Study

You would think religious people and atheists don't have a lot in common regarding thinking but they do, says a study by UCLA, Pepperdine and USC neuroscientists.     It's tough to systematically compare religious faith with ordinary cognition, s ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2009 - 2:04pm

I love the Nobel Prize...(and foam, sometimes)

I always like to hear who got the Nobel Prize (well at least the one in medicine, anyway- I am definitely not a physics person), because lately it is almost someone who researched something that I remember learning about in school, when it was "new&qu ...

Blog Post - Mrs. H. - Oct 6 2009 - 6:24pm

Is this site opened for phishers?

I start my activity on these pages by pointing to a security problem we have here. I found it when viewing one of my comments to a news article where a new comment appeared: http://www.scientificblogging.com/comments/24095/Re_2009_Peer_Review_Survey_Issues ...

Blog Post - Ladislav Kocbach - Oct 7 2009 - 8:57am

Discrimination Will Never Not Happen But 'Gender Fatigue' Leads To Diminishing Returns

No country is immune from gender discrimination, says the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Report, and most companies feel like they are gender neutral and perhaps are- but because people and perceptions are different it's dificult to say what i ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2009 - 12:19pm

New Giant Squid Show Airing in 2010

Mark your calendars! A Japanese broadcaster is joining forces with the Science Channel and renowned giant squid biologist Tsunemi Kubodera (the guy who went fishing with a long string and a bag of shrimp) on an "international quest to find and film a ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 12 2009 - 7:10pm

Philosophies of Evaluation (and the New OMB Directive)

It often falls to the management scientist to evaluate how well a program (in the private, non-profit, or government sector) is performing.  There is a great number of ways to go about this task.  This article discusses some of the ways to evaluate a prog ...

Blog Post - Fred Phillips - Oct 13 2009 - 12:50am