Science & Society
- On Gender Bias In HEP
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Sabine Hossenfelder is a well-known theoretical physicist as well as a successful blogger. In her blog today I read a letter she sent to Time Magazine. The letter was triggered by the following sentence in a piece by Jeffrey Kluger discussing the runners-u ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 24 2013 - 8:10am
- Penicillin, Not Birth Control, May Have Launched The Sexual Revolution
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The 1950s are irrationally idealized by some economists and also irrationally derided by some in culture, but a new paper in the Archives of Sexual Behavior seeks to rehabilitate the cultural aspects and make the case that the 1950s use of penicillin, and ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2013 - 10:41am
- Cap And Trade Schemes Hurt Green Consumerism
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There is a reason for the disparity between charitable giving among people who advocate smaller government and larger government; people who advocate larger government already feel like they are doing their part by paying more in taxes, so they give less ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2013 - 1:27pm
- Super Bowl Science: The Only Thing That Could Make Beer More Awesome
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It's no shock to know there is no anthropology without beer. No history either. Really, it took alcohol to get someone to write down mundane events in longhand. And beer-making equipment was prized above all else, that is why many of our earliest fin ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2015 - 5:25pm
- Sense About Science Primer On Peer Review
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Media is increasingly filled with miracle vegetable and scare journalism stories, all that say they are based on scientific studies. When faced with a headline that suggests an Alzheimer's drug increases the risk of heart attack or that watching TV i ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 9 2013 - 1:31pm
- Supreme Court Slightly More Diverse Than 200 Years Ago
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President Barack Obama has been criticized for a lack of diversity in his cabinet compared to his predecessor- charges he also faced when he was president of the Harvard Law Review and only 25% of editors chosen by him were women. His Supreme Court Justic ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2013 - 5:12pm
- Addressing The Gaps In Mental Health Infrastructure
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In a recent JAMA article, 2008 National Survey of Mental Health Treatment Facilities data of psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers and freestanding outpatient clinics or partial-care and multiservice mental health groups found that only 63 ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2013 - 7:00pm
- PI3Ks And BTK Inhibitors Will Still Be Economic Drivers Until 2016
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Heightened regulation, increased lawsuits and a resulting lack of venture capital has meant the western pharmaceutical industry faces a looming crisis but companies outside America and Europe may pick up the slack- new targets/drugs remain an evergreen me ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2013 - 4:30am
- Elsevier, TWAS, And OWSD Honor Early Career Women Scientists In Developing Countries
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Recognition of early-career women scientists helps encourage participation in medical research, builds strong research cultures, and inspires a new generation of scientists. In that light, five medical and life science researchers from Africa, the Middle ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2013 - 1:06pm
- Coffee: A Developing World Problem People Really Care About
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You can bet that if I don't have my Double Black Diamond Extra Bold tomorrow morning, I am writing me a letter to Congress. Guatemalans take their coffee just as seriously and have already gone to Def-Con 1 over coffee rust, which is affecting 70% of ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 17 2013 - 1:50pm