Science & Society

60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1956

Survivalism, British Style John Christopher’s 1956 No Blade of Grass is an extremely compelling page turner that portrays our moral traditions and social glue as being so fragile that they can be swept away in a day. Compassion, mercy, and even friendline ...

Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:48pm

Apocalypse 1957: On The Beach

There will be no survivors Exactly what nuclear world war would look like was a matter of diverse opinion in the nuclear apocalypse novels of the 1950‘s. Many post-apocalyptic novels of this decade portrayed World War III as an essentially known if more e ...

Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:48pm

Cheap Space Flight Can Lead To Clean Space Based Solar Power. So Why Do Environmentalist Oppose Space Science?

G enerating energy from solar power satellites in space is the long-term final solution to the energy needs of humanity. Cheap easy access to space is crucial for this. In fact, we live at an important time where if we do not use the energy, we have wisel ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 26 2021 - 9:54am

Science Journalists Are Optimistic About Their Field

Recent survey results by SciDev.Net/CABI reveal that the majority of science journalists (633 respondents from 77 countries) believe that the field is not consolidating the way some other mainstream/legacy journalism specialties are. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 29 2021 - 1:33pm

Gun Deaths Rose 30% During The Pandemic

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, 28 states experienced higher gun deaths, including suicides. New York, Minnesota, and Michigan saw numbers go up more than 100 percent, according to a recent paper. Only Alaska, which often leads the US, had ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 2 2021 - 10:45am

Without The COVID-19 Pandemic, Would Trump Have Won Reelection?

Corporate journalists and other pundits have argued that the 2020 election was a referendum on how the administration handled the COVID-19 pandemic. Is that true? ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2021 - 5:11pm

The 2020 Decadal Survey: Don't Listen To Chanda Prescod-Weinstein TMT Should Be Built. The Indigenous Stakeholders Spoke Through The Hawaiian Legal Process Already.

A ccording to the 2020 Decadal survey published by the National Academies of science the US Large telescope program including the Thirty Meter Telescope are the number one priorities for ground based astronomy in the US.  For many good reasons. However, t ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Nov 5 2021 - 8:29am

Homeschooled Kids Become Adults With Greater Character Strengths And Fewer Risky Health Behaviors

What do Taylor Swift, the Jonas brothers, and Miley Cyrus share in common? They're all great musicians and nice people. They were also home schooled.  A new study examining how homeschooling affected adolescents’ character, health and well-being found ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2021 - 3:37pm

The Supply Chain Impact On Thanksgiving

In 1958, shortly after passage of a misguided law related to chemicals and food- a problem that haunts trust in science like vaccines even today- America got its first government-created chemophobia craze. In cranberries. The poorly worded Delaney Clause s ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 16 2021 - 6:21pm

Fact Check: IPCC's Transformative Change Maximises GOOD QUALITY OF LIFE With GROWTH In Everything We Value, Not COLLAPSE

There is nothing even remotely resembling collapse of civilization in the IPBES or IPCC reports. So why do so many people say that’s what they are about? I think it may be at least partly a misunderstanding of what the IPCC mean by “transformative change” ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 18 2021 - 10:00am