Science Education & Policy

Study: Anti-Drinking Campaigns May Be “Catastrophically Misconceived”

Some anti-drinking advertising campaigns may be “catastrophically misconceived” because they play on the entertaining ‘drinking stories’ that young people use to mark their social identity, say researchers who have just completed a three year study of the ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2007 - 10:52pm

The Strange State Of European Food Imports

Last year, Britain imported 14,000 tons of chocolate covered waffles- and exported 15,000 tons. Doesn't make sense? It's not just bizarre waffle travels; Europeans are importing more food from overseas than ever before, even while exporting thing ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2007 - 2:39pm

Environmental Exodus

Climate change is the largest environmental change expected this century. It is likely to intensify droughts, storms and floods, which will undoubtedly lead to environmental migrations and potential conflicts in the areas migrated to. In the aftermath of e ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2007 - 9:43pm

Fire, Ice And Invasion

The November 2007 Special Issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment focuses on paleoecology, which uses fossilized remains and soil and sediment cores to reconstruct past ecosystems. Some scientists argue that the pre-Columbian Amazon was pristine, ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2007 - 9:48pm

A Really Inconvenient Truth: Divorce Is Not Green

The data are in. Divorce is bad for the environment. A novel study that links divorce with the environment shows a global trend of soaring divorce rates has created more households with fewer people, has taken up more space and has gobbled up more energy a ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2007 - 10:13pm

Study Of Blacks, Hispanics Finds Older Children More Likely To Develop Vision Disorders

In a study of more than 6,000 Los Angeles-area children – the largest study of its kind – researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) found that both strabismus (commonly known as cross-eyed or wall-eyed) and a ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2007 - 6:30am

Behavioral Economics- Getting The Right Thing Without Limiting Choices

Policy makers, employers and others can use the science of behavioral economics to steer people toward wiser choices — and dramatically improve their health — without limiting their freedom to do as they please, according to an article in the Journal of th ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2007 - 8:30am

Climate Wealth Index A New Metric For Global Warming, Say Researchers

As the United Nations climate negotiations proceed in Bali, Indonesia, researchers have taken a first step toward quantifying the "socioclimatic" exposure of different countries to future climate change. The research team from Purdue University a ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2007 - 7:49pm

The Health Hazard Of PBDE Fire Retardants

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), chemicals used as fire retardants, can be found in numerous items in the home, such as the television, computer, toaster and the sofa. Now, as reported in a KNBC story on Nov. 28, they are being found in alarming con ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2009 - 12:29pm

The Perception Of Morphine And Its Impact On Patient Behavior

Cancer patients are suffering unnecessarily because they wrongly believe that morphine and other opioids are only used as “comfort for the dying” and as a “last resort” rather than seeing them as legitimate pain killers that can improve their quality of li ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2007 - 5:30am