Science Education & Policy

Forget Politics, Obamacare Contraceptive Coverage Makes Financial Sense

The United States Supreme Court recently ruled against the Obama administration requirement that all employers must provide birth control insurance for women. Administration lawyers knew they were on shaky ground going in, because there were no provisions ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 19 2014 - 11:38am

Speak Well Of The Bourgeois, And Prosper

By Jason Potts, RMIT University Do the words we use to speak of economic matters, matter? I believe they do, but not by the propagation of textbookish jargon. Rather, the main way they matter is in shaping public ethics. Economics has been a technical fiel ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 19 2014 - 6:00pm

Calling On NCCAM To Stop Endorsing Unscientific, 'Alternative' Medicines

David Gorski of Wayne State University School of Medicine and Steven Novella of Yale University, writing in Trends in Molecular Medicine, call for an end to clinical trials of "highly implausible treatments" such as homeopathy and reiki. Over th ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2014 - 12:49pm

Universities At Risk Of Dumbing Down Into Secondary Schools

Nottingham Trent University, CC BY-NC-ND By Alister Scott, Birmingham City University ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 24 2014 - 9:01am

Medical Marijuana Linked To Fewer Opioid Overdose Deaths

Prescriptions for opioid painkillers for chronic pain have increased in the United States and so have overdose deaths, but a new study focused on how the availability of alternative nonopioid treatment, such as medical marijuana, may affect overdose rates ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2014 - 11:00pm

In Higher Education, Quality Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

What the government sees as a quality university isn’t necessarily the same as what students see. University of Nottingham. Flickr/Simon Paterson, CC BY-SA By Jane O'Callaghan Kotzmann, Deakin University ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 26 2014 - 3:30am

An Inconvenient Truth: Green Behavior Benefits Corporations More Than Society

In the world of mixed environmental and social problems, such as global warming policy, there is a tug of war between social authoritarian forces that want top-down laws and regulations and behavior control, and a grass roots strategy that believes awaren ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2014 - 10:54am

Global 'Roadmap' Shows Where To Put Roads Without Costing The Earth

Deforestation along roads in Rondonia, Brazil. Source: Google Earth By Bill Laurance, James Cook University “The best thing you could do for the Amazon is to blow up all the roads.” These might sound like the words of an eco-terrorist, but it’s actually a ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 27 2014 - 11:12pm

The UK Government Is Undermining One Of Its Most Valuable Exports: Education

Credit: Birkbeck Media Services Centre, CC BY-NC-ND By Gina Rippon, Aston University ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 28 2014 - 8:18pm

Better At Computer Games? You Probably Have A Better Vocabulary

It is not a "All your base are belong to us" world in video games any more. Today, if you want to make a mark in the world of computer games you had better have a good English vocabulary, according to a study by the University of Gothenburg and ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 28 2014 - 1:00pm