Science & Society

Free Range Kids: Most Parents Won't Let Kids Swim In Their Backyard Without Supervision

A new national poll says that parents are in a panic about things like swimming pools. Least likely to think their kids can swim; black parents. A slight majority of white parents are fine with kids swimming sans parental hovering. Almost all parents think ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2017 - 6:56am

Minority vs. Legal Incompetence: The case for lowering the age of majority to 13

The right to make one’s own legal decisions is typically denied for two reasons: Youth (minority) and incompetence. Incompetence is a state of mental incapacity to make one’s own decisions in a way which is informed with regard to the consequences and rat ...

Blog Post - Nightvid Cole - May 16 2017 - 9:59am

The Future Of Branding

A research firm has just bestowed the title “world’s most valuable insurance brand” on a mainland Chinese company. Other outfits issue similar announcements in diverse industries, despite that in 2014 The Economist made this remark about brands: “Their im ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Jun 6 2017 - 5:59pm

Alan Alda's Art And Science Of Relating And Communicating

You are about to hear a huge sigh of relief from the entire science journalism community, because Alan Alda, a man who can interview E.O. Wilson and Jim Watson with ease, who hosted the terrific Scientific American Frontiers, and founded the Alan Alda Cen ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 12 2017 - 12:35pm

Higgs Boson-Inspired Artwork By High-School Students

The "Art&Science" project is coming to the final phase as far as the activities in Venice are concerned. About 100 15 to 17-year-old students from high schools in Venice have assisted to lessons on particle physics and the Higgs boson in the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 16 2017 - 7:02am

We're Suffering And Dying From Diseases Whose Treatments Are Still Unknown

I have always imagined a future that is free of disease. However, we continue to suffer from diseases such as malaria, cancer, and AIDS for which there is no known cure. To make matters worse, other diseases such as poliomyelitis that were once considered ...

Article - Raul Isea - Jul 11 2017 - 12:20pm

Gender-Blind Recruitment Process Leads To More Men Being Hired

It's been shown that there is no hiring deficit for women in science; women have been hired far more than men for new jobs. Yet women's groups have continued to point to total numbers as the problem, as if to say older men who have been supportiv ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2017 - 9:59pm

Flacking For The Organic Industry: Paul Thacker

A bizarre diatribe published by the hard-left political fanzine Progressive.org came across my desk today. I even got a mention. I don't delve into politics much, I am a registered Independent and I voted for Clinton in the 2016 election, those are al ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 29 2019 - 3:17pm

Membership Associations Breed Future Leaders

Shrinking travel budgets and the availability of online training have conspired against today's professional associations, the typical first-victims of operational austerity.  Public institutions eager to appease their elected leaders are especially q ...

Article - John M. Collins - Aug 14 2017 - 9:17pm

We are living in an Information Society

In recent years, we have access to a wealth of information thanks to advances in Information and Communication Technology. However, as will be discussed below, the increase of information does not imply more knowledge.   As dictionary.com tells us that kn ...

Blog Post - Raul Isea - Aug 10 2017 - 12:22pm