Science & Society

Don't Marry A Ghost; If You Divorce It Will Haunt You

When I wrote Halloween Science 2.0, I wanted to get it down to a brisk 150 pages, which means taking a chainsaw to a lot of the material I had.(1) Like the woman who left her corporeal significant other to become a ghost groupie. Amethyst Realm, that is no ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 30 2025 - 3:56pm

Wealthy ‘Big Tobacco’ Lawyer Excited About Prospects For Food Industry

If you get rich suing people, your days going after Big Tobacco are basically over. The tobacco companies have been sued for everything by now and the people who still smoke know what they are doing, and the risks, and they are willing to pay an ever-incre ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 1 2025 - 8:05am

New York City Voters Just Fine With Fracking- In Pennsylvania

I've often joked that residents of New York City have little knowledge of the culture and lifestyle of people beyond the Hudson River. Some seem to think the "Fallout" games are actually happening in all that land they fly over between Manha ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 10 2025 - 9:29am

Girls Play With Dolls, Boys Catapult Them

Though a subset of culture is determined to make the world omnisexual, kids are not getting the message. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 12 2025 - 8:40am

Living At The Polar Circle

Since 2022, when I got invited for a keynote talk at a Deep Learning school, I have been visiting with increasing frequency the northern Sweden town of Lulea, and its Technology University (LTU). In 2023 I spent three months there, invited by Marcus Liwick ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 12 2025 - 9:47am

Truth Or Consequences

From an early age, my life’s goal was to get at “the truth.” There were only two obvious career paths: Science, or investigative journalism. I went the first route, becoming an academic researcher. Proud of the path I chose, and always admiring the other ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Dec 13 2025 - 6:06pm

The Seasonal Spike In Divorce Filings

Associate sociology professor Julie Brines and doctoral candidate Brian Serafini claims there is quantitative evidence of a seasonal, biannual pattern of filings for divorce- determined by analyzing filings in Washington state between 2001 and 2015. Stati ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2025 - 10:05am

Christmas Truce 1914- The Germans Made The First Move

The Christmas Truce is no stranger to popular entertainment – this year more than any other as its 100th anniversary is marked. The famous moment when British and German soldiers climbed out of the trenches in peace on Christmas Day 1914 has been replicat ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 19 2025 - 9:42am