Science Education & Policy
- Banning Greenhouse Gases Is No Magic Bullet For Global Warming
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It has slowly dawned on climate researchers that promoting the belief that curbing CO2 will prevent climate change has been a bad idea. American and European CO2 emissions have gone down, for example, but Asia's has risen, and we went beyond the ' ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2014 - 9:01am
- So Hot Right Now: The Middle Ages In The Climate Change Debate
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As both a word and an idea, 'medieval' carries centuries of connotation of a murky and brutal pre-scientific age. Swanson Scott /US Fish&Wildlife Service By Louise D'Arcens, University of Wollongong and Clare Monagle, Monash University ...
Article - The Conversation - Nov 5 2014 - 10:12am
- 'No-Consequences' Education Produces Unemployable Graduates
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Article - The Conversation - Nov 5 2014 - 10:51am
- Children Born Just After The Berlin Wall Fell Were Lower Achievers – Here’s Why
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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Gavin Andrew Stewart, CC BY By Arnaud Chevalier, Royal Holloway and Olivier Marie, Maastricht University Germany and the rest of Europe are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the as ...
Article - The Conversation - Nov 5 2014 - 11:30am
- Britain Faces Winter Energy Cuts
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The Drax plant in Yorkshire. Gareth Davies, CC BY By Richard Tol, University of Sussex ...
Article - The Conversation - Nov 6 2014 - 12:00pm
- Why Body Image Needs Regulation
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Blaming 'Jordan syndrome' doesn't really cut it. British celebrity Katie Price (R) on the red carpet before the start of the Vienna State Opera Ball in Vienna, Austria, 11 February 2010. Robert Jaeger /EPA By Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor, Univ ...
Article - The Conversation - Nov 12 2014 - 8:00am
- NIH Can't Afford Ebola, Can Afford A $10 Million Video Game About A Town Full Of Fat People
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When Ebola was the latest rage in mainstream media (that would be last month- poor people in Africa are so October of 2014) National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins was quick to capitalize on it- they could have had a vaccine by now, he c ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 14 2014 - 9:01am
- With More Parks Than Ever, Why Is Wildlife Still Vanishing?
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Kakadu National Park, Australia. Rita Willaert /Flickr, CC BY-NC By Bob Pressey, James Cook University and Euan Ritchie, Deakin University ...
Article - The Conversation - Nov 13 2014 - 8:46pm
- Why Finland Does Well On Standardized Tests
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Finns are not more liberal about education because kids don't have to wear shoes, they are really conservative- the last country in Europe to create mandatory education and their spending on it is small. There is no need to pay more money to teachers ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 8 2015 - 8:32pm
- Abstinence Only Cookie Education Works
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There may be disagreement about whether or not telling teenagers to not have sex works but that could be due to puberty. In younger kids, cookie abstinence works just fine. Even the Cookie Monster can get kids to eat fewer cookies, and cookies are kind of ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 14 2014 - 9:31am
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