Science Education & Policy

Abstinence Only Cookie Education Works

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

EPA's Clean Power Plan May Not Go Far Enough

The Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan was released in June of 2014 and is seeking public comments until December 1st so if you want to yell about liberals or Big Oil, you are running out of time. The plan is like most government policies, they ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 14 2014 - 10:28am

Greenpeace Wins- Science Is Out Of EU Policy Making Again

Professor Anne Glover, the first Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the European Commission, has been sacked. Well, not technically, the European Commission is simply not extending her position. That is diplomatic speech for 'there are a l ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 14 2014 - 3:11pm

School Cafeteria Food Mandates- What Students Know That Bureaucrats Don't

The belief in Washington, D.C. political circles is that if kids have no choice, they will eventually eat whatever they are given. And they will grow to like it. Does that work? In some instances it does, which is all the validation that culturally estran ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2014 - 11:06am

Scientific Research through Creativity in "The Cloud"

Recently, I enjoyed the opportunity to solve and implement a simple web interface problem. The result would not be considered profound or unique by Internet professionals, but nonetheless, it certainly is a powerful application of basic web technologies t ...

Blog Post - Matthew T. Dearing - Nov 18 2014 - 2:01am

Sorry Kids, Men Are Better Writers Than Women

Oh, no, wait – it's the 21st century! Carl Guderian By Camilla Nelson, University of Notre Dame Australia It’s official: men are better writers than women. The news came as something of a shock to a hardened feminist such as myself, but a quick surve ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 19 2014 - 12:41pm

Lacey Act: 2008 Illegal Logging Law Signed By Bush Has Worked

The Lacey Act, introduced in 1900 by Republican Congressman John F. Lacey of Iowa, was originally designed to stop illegal game across state borders but was then expanded, notably by President Ronald Reagan, to include illegal logging and breaking the law ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2017 - 10:24am

Are Children Better Off Than They Were 25 Years Ago?

25 years ago, the United Nations laid the foundation for children's rights and protections- at least as part of international theater. The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most ratified human rights treaty in history but three members, So ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 21 2014 - 11:57am

L'Aquila Scientists Free But Political Risks Remain

L'Aquila is still in repair. Roberto Taddeo By Lawrence Torcello, Rochester Institute of Technology It has been five years since an earthquake hit the Italian city of L’Aquila leaving 309 people dead. In the aftermath one public official and six eart ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 21 2014 - 5:30pm

Education: Stop New Age Thinking, Chalk And Talk Might Be The Best Way After All