Science Education & Policy

Portuguese government shuts down half of the research units in the country The Portuguese funding agency for science (Fundação para a Ciência e aTecnologia – FCT) has just announced lthat it will stop funding nearly half of the research units in the coun ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Jul 16 2014 - 6:00am

Who's To Blame For Climate Change?

Other than being lauded for its spectacular catering, he 2009 Climate Convention Conference in Copenhagen didn't accomplish much. One big reason was because developed nations wanted to curb emissions while developing nations wanted to make wealthier c ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2014 - 10:00am

Carbon Tax Repeal Could Lead To Water Savings- Planting Trees Won't

Australia is working to repeal its unpopular carbon tax and replacement strategies to mitigate carbon emissions and stave off future climate change may bring a bonus- water savings. A new study says that the equivalent of one-third of Melbourne's wat ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2014 - 9:31am

Science Blog Readership Linked To Worse Understanding Of Science Among Poor People

When it comes to public understanding of science, science blog readership doesn't help poor people, it actually hurts. Similar levels of attention to science in newspapers and on blogs can lead to vastly different levels of factual and perceived know ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2014 - 12:50pm

California's Cap And Trade Policy Is Manipulation Waiting To Happen

California leads the country in creating science policy by opposition; if Republicans are against it, California will pass it. Taxpayers are swimming in debt and wondering why they wasted $3 billion paying a bureaucrat $500,000 a year to redistribute mone ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2014 - 3:30am

The Knock On 'No Child Left Behind' Was Political Spin, Not Evidence

"No Child Left Behind" was a bipartisan law overwhelmingly approved by both Democrats and Republicans and signed into law by US President George W. Bush. It was created to address crippling flaws in an American education system that was still op ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2014 - 9:01pm

Antibiotics In Hospice Patients: High Prevalence, Little Value

Hospice is the name for palliative care, primarily of terminally ill patients. There are few examples of more gracious, compassionate people, so if a patient wants antibiotics they are going to get them- even though there is little evidence that such medi ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2014 - 1:06pm

Environmental Accountability: What America Gets Wrong, Canada And India Get Right

In America, radical environmental groups get something of a cultural free pass. It's understandable, because America is a two-party country. Due to that, otherwise scientifically literate Democrats will rationalize the anti-vaccine, anti-GMO and ant ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 15 2014 - 2:01pm

Raising State Math, Science Graduation Requirements Will Mean More Dropouts

Education is in something a Catch-22. If they have standards, there will be dropouts among people who don't want to do the work to reach the minimum levels. If they don't have standards, they are just an assembly line and that is bad for teacher ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2014 - 4:32pm

Duck Dynasty Can Thank Federal Conservation Policies

During the 2011 and 2012 migration seasons, University of Missouri researchers monitored mallard ducks using satellite tracking, the first time ducks have been tracked closely during the entirety of their migration from Canada to the American Midwest and ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2014 - 9:31am