Science & Society

Environmentalists Have Gone To Their Bunkers Over Trump

Environmentalists almost certainly cost Secretary Hillary Clinton the election and now they want to act as a violent alternative to President-elect Trump. President Obama had consistently sided with environmentalists over jobs- an example was the Keystone ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 9 2016 - 4:08pm

Mark Bittman Can't Succeed In Food, So He'll Teach It

Mark Bittman, cookbook guru and former New York Times columnist for those who self-identify as being the latest nutritional trend followers, has had success telling other people how to run their business- but was a giant flop when he actually had to implem ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 16 2016 - 6:04am

HOPE Or Wishful Thinking When It Comes To Probation

In the criminal justice community, the community supervision approach known as Honest Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) has generated widespread enthusiasm when it comes to substance use, violations, new arrests, and revocations to prison, but ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 15 2016 - 9:52pm

Democrat Postmortem: They Had Merely Become What They Had Hated All Along Part 1

When a tree dies, or when we run across decaying wood in a forest, our first reaction is to think we should remove it. However, the ecology of the forest is such that saproxylic organisms, including fungi and insects, depend on the dead wood that naturall ...

Article - Alex Durig - Dec 20 2016 - 12:39pm

Thanksgiving Pie Report: One Pumpkin To Rule Them All

According to a Delta Dental survey out today, American adults overwhelmingly want a little pumpkin at Thanksgiving, it has 36 percent favorability, more than double that of American's next favorite Thanksgiving pie, pecan, which ekes out only 15 perce ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 23 2016 - 12:40pm

Great Scott! Climate Change Deniers Accept Models!

Great Scott! Climate Change Deniers Accept Models! A recent study of old log books, coupled with the use of computer modelling of ice estimates show that the summer sea ice edge then was further from the land in the Weddell sea but that ice conditions were ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Nov 23 2016 - 9:46pm

Democrat Postmortem: They Had Merely Become What They Had Hated All Along 2/2

If there was one theme that qualified the new politically correct definition of morality in higher education it was the idea that the new Affirmative Action professoriate wanted to do away with everything about civilization that white men had created. If ...

Article - Alex Durig - Dec 20 2016 - 12:37pm

John Glenn, Astronaut, and Senator dead at 95. A Milennial Perspective

John Glenn one of the first seven NASA Astronauts and a former Senator of many terms has died at the age of 95.  His life was rich and full and at this point his loss is not a tragedy.  All that is left to say is God Speed John Glenn.  May you now explore ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 8 2016 - 4:20pm

Life at City Colleges of Chicago as an Adjunct Professor.

T he City Colleges of Chicago treats adjunct faculty like full timers when it comes to workloads but pays us worse than a full time fast food worker in Chicago IL.  I am the treasurer of this local of the IEA-NEA which covers seven campuses spread across ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 15 2016 - 1:09am

Doomsday Debunked- Nibiru Is Nuts- What About Nuclear War, Asteroid Impacts, Runaway Warming,...

We've had fake news world ending prophecies for centuries. But now we have exaggerated scientific scenarios to add to the list, so that we can get scared by asteroid impacts, nuclear war, runaway warming and so on. These are mixed with pseudoscience, ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 24 2016 - 9:36am