Science Education & Policy

California Health Plate Gives Way To Montreal Combo Plate

Lifestyle programs focused on high-intensity interval training or the Mediterranean diet have shown results for improving the heart health of people with abdominal obesity, finds a new study. "Each of these lifestyle interventions alone is known to h ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2013 - 12:40pm

Fit Female Teens Get Better Grades In Science

If you want your daughter to do better in science, get her exercising, says a paper in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. All teens benefit, girls more. The improvements were sustained over the long term, with the findings pointing to a dose-response ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2013 - 9:40pm

Excellence Gap Among American Students Now In Its 237th Year

High-achieving American students tend to be white and well-off, much like throughout all of history. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2013 - 10:50am

Will Institutionalizing Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Research Work?

Academic researchers are already bogged down in a sea of government and institutional bureaucracy, committee meetings, guidelines, unspoken rules and lengthy regulations. Will they embrace a formalized top-down process for collaborating? A group of schola ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2013 - 3:40pm

In A STEM Field? You Are Probably Creative Too

The stereotype of the scientist is having little creativity and knowledge that is 'a mile deep and a yard wide.' Not so, according to a new paper which found that successful entrepreneurs and patent holders were also 8X as likely as other people ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2013 - 11:45am

STEM: In Academia There Is A Glut, But There Is A Shortage In The Corporate World

One argument for putting a halt to government spending billions of dollars doing Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) 'outreach' is that, like all government programs, they become self-serving and never, ever stop. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 29 2013 - 10:56am

GMO Debate Misses The Point- Science Is Icky

Years ago, when science media was generally in decline, both financially and content-wise, I held up Popular Science as the poster child for how to be successful: Appeal to your market and stay out of the culture wars. Things have changed, and they have be ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 8 2015 - 8:06pm

Head Start Employees Report Poor Mental And Physical Health

Head Start, the nation's largest federally funded early childhood education program, which serves nearly one million low-income children, has a problem. Women employed under the program report higher than expected levels of physical and mental health ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 31 2013 - 12:29pm

Even A 20 Percent Soda Tax Would Barely Impact Obesity

How much impact can taxes and bans have on the conduct of people? Quite a lot. A 500% tax would clearly reduce demand while outright bans of desired products keep law-abiding people from using a product- and make the others rich. In defiance of well-estab ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 1 2013 - 12:20pm

Women Score Lower Than Men On Physics Assessments- Except In This Kind Of Classroom

Women consistently score lower than men on common assessments of conceptual understanding of physics but there is no clear reason why. Controlling for student background and test-taking strategies provides little help and therefore claims that the causes ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 1 2013 - 1:15pm