Science Education & Policy

Higher Gas Prices And Fewer Automobile Deaths Correlated

In one of those odd uses of statistics, higher gasoline prices have been associated with fewer deaths from car accidents, says a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). An analysis of yearly vehicle deaths compared to gas prices found ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2008 - 9:55pm

Kids And Education: Math, Reading Scores Have Gone Up

The nation's fourth and eighth graders scored higher in reading and mathematics than they did during their last national assessment, according to the federal government's latest annual statistical report on the well-being of the nation's ch ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2008 - 5:01pm

Anti-evolution 'Academic Freedom' Bills: What Is Academic Freedom Anyway?

You may have heard the news that Louisiana's governor recently signed an "Academic Freedom" bill, the first such bill to pass in a recent string of efforts to allow public school teachers to push non-scientific alternatives to evolution. (I ...

Article - Michael White - Jul 12 2008 - 4:03pm

Target: Ocean Methane

A new pathway for methane formation in the oceans has been discovered, with significant potential for advancing our understanding of greenhouse gas production on Earth, scientists believe. A paper on the findings published in Nature Geoscience reveals that ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2008 - 12:07pm

Germany Institutes Gender Quotas In Science, Says They Are Voluntary

The topic of gender in science has been a hot one this decade. While women have equal representation in biology and an overwhelming majority in social sciences, they are lacking in the hard sciences and sparse at the professor level. Germany has implented ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2008 - 8:11am

89 Percent Of Kid's Food Products Are Nutritionally Lousy (But 62 Percent Lie About It Anyway)

Nine out of ten regular food items aimed specifically at children have a poor nutritional content – because of high levels of sugar, fat or sodium- according to a detailed study of 367 products published in the July issue of the UK-based journal Obesity Re ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2008 - 6:14pm

New Carbon Sequestration Location- Undersea Volcanoes

A group of scientists has used deep ocean-floor drilling and experiments to show that volcanic rocks off the West Coast and elsewhere might be used to securely imprison huge amounts of globe-warming carbon dioxide captured from power plants or other source ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2008 - 10:16pm

The Other Hand………….The Sunk-Cost Fallacy Continued

Of course the flip side, meaning the benefits of the sunk-cost fallacy, need to be addressed. One example can be found in a January 12, 2007 article in the “Freakonomics” section of the New York Times titled “What does Barack Obama Know about Behavioral Ec ...

Article - Audrey Amara - Jul 15 2008 - 7:31pm

Commonwealth Fund Says US Health Care Scorecard Is Going Down

It's no secret that the Commonwealth Fund doesn't like private health care and their new national scorecard states that scores on access have declined significantly since the first national scorecard in 2006. Despite spending more on health care ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2008 - 11:40pm

Lyme—The New Saturn

Living on a desert island may not even be a mode of escape from Lyme disease because birds can also be a carrier of infected ticks. Dorothy Leland, who is an advocate with the California Lyme Disease Association and has a daughter with the disease used to ...

Article - Audrey Amara - Jul 18 2008 - 10:32am