People attempting to quit smoking without professional help are approximately 60% more likely to report succeeding if they use e-cigarettes than if they use willpower alone or over-the-counter…

Somewhere south of a sunny childhood are emotional and physical abuse and neglect. There are four possible combinations: emotional abuse, emotional neglect, physical abuse, and physical neglect. If…

Friends of the Earth, most famous for being against nuclear energy and every other bit of modern science and technology, now thinks most scientists are unethical - unless they are hand-picked by…

You may remember, a while back I talked about Joe Carroll's ingenious idea to do our first ever true experiment in a gravity tether during a routine Soyuz crew transfer to the ISS, His idea is…

Did you cheer when Julian Assange and WikiLeaks made the news but boo when Snowden showed the NSA is spying on American citizens? Are you boycotting NASA because of an espionage-prevention rule that…

http://nypost.com/2013/10/08/us-adults-are-dumber-than-the-average-human/ The study, called the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, found that it was easier on average to…

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Writing instruction in U.S. classrooms is "abysmal" and the Common Core State Standards don't go far enough to address glaring gaps for students and teachers, a Michigan State…

Government-controlled science funding is so politically skewed today that a lot of people probably just agreed with a National Cancer Institute 'study' that claimed tobacco companies created the Tea…

Government-controlled science funding is so politically skewed today that a lot of people probably just agreed with a National Cancer Institute 'study' that claimed tobacco companies created the Tea…

The advent of science blogging in the early- and mid-2000s meant people needed things to write about - and people generally want to live in important times. That meant exaggeration, hysteria and…

Of the many flawed things about the 1990s Kyoto Protocol, like exempting China, India and Mexico and letting France and Germany pick the target date (1), one of the biggest flaws may have slipped…

Of the many flawed things about the 1990s Kyoto Protocol, like exempting China, India and Mexico and letting France and Germany pick the target date (1), one of the biggest flaws may have slipped…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22567023http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1836.html While the United States is now back at early 1990s levels of CO2 emissions,…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22567023http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1836.html While the United States is now back at early 1990s levels of CO2 emissions,…

If you think a university education is expensive, you might want to blame the government trying to create voters for its party by giving away something for free - in the early 1990s, Congress decided…

If you think a university education is expensive, you might want to blame the government trying to create voters for its party by giving away something for free - in the early 1990s, Congress decided…

Samuel Arbesman and K. Brad Wray, 'Demographics and the fate of the young scientist', Social Studies of Science April 2013 vol. 43 no. 2 282-286 doi: 10.1177/0306312712470218

http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2013/01/08/science_has_always_b... The mythology of the super-rational, completely impartial scientist is promoted by scientists - but it has probably done…

Science scores are up among students and two-thirds of students have a decent grasp of science.  That sounds pretty good, right? If you are in the 'education stinks so let's give it more money'…

two Representative are Republicans - Richard Hanna and George Miller (but he is a Californian, so pretty much a Democrat) Sen. Bernie Sanders is not a Democrat, he is an Independent Democrat…