Science Education & Policy

Why Modern Medical Students Are Staying Away From Psychiatry

Physician attitudes towards mental illness can reflect the general public's prejudice. Dariush M / Shutterstock By Adam Brenner, UT Southwestern Medical Center ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 1 2014 - 7:31am

EU Obsession With Google Shows How Little It Understands 21st Century Economics

Credit: EU By David Glance, University of Western Australia The Parliament of the European Union last week voted to call on member states and the European Commission to investigate the operation of search engines in Europe to ensure “a balanced, fair and ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 30 2014 - 3:00pm

How To Get Minority Students Into STEM?

If you ask a female doctor why she didn't go into physics, she is not going to tell you it's because there are more men in physics and that is intimidating. Instead, she will say it's because she wanted to help people or she liked medicine. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2014 - 6:28pm

Is The Wolf Debate About People Who Live Near Them Versus Urban Activists? Or About Caring?

If you have talked to ranchers or people who live near wolves about being able to shoot them without landing in prison with a mandatory Federal jail sentence, the response is clear: Wolves have to be controlled. If you talk to urban activists or people wh ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2014 - 3:53pm

Is Citizen Journalism Protected As Much As Corporate Journalism?

A new article  in the Georgia Law Review details the relationship of two U.S. Supreme Court cases, their impact on freedom of expression, and how they relate to blogging and citizen journalism. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2014 - 12:56am

'Bilingual Advantage' In Cognition Isn't Based On Evidence

Psychology lacks the methodological rigor of science, but bold claims are popular in corporate media and so they become paper of consumer belief. One recent popular claim is that being bilingual is a cognitive advantage. The claims are so popular that you ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2014 - 1:00pm

Climate Change Talks In Lima: Who Is Pushing For What?

At UN climate change negotiations, human rights is increasingly the focus. 350.org, CC BY-NC By Matthew Nisbet,  Northeastern University Senior officials representing nearly 200 countries will gather in Lima, Peru today for the final stages of United Nati ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 9 2014 - 11:33am

Healthcare Spending And Maternal Mortality Rates Linked In EU

Reductions in government healthcare spending in the European Union (EU) increase maternal mortality rates, suggests a new paper in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (BJOG). Maternal mortality is defined as the death of a woman d ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2014 - 2:30pm

Low Income Kids Eat Healthier In School- Let's Not Mess That Up

A longitudinal study has found that while higher income children eat worse at school, low-income kids eat healthier than at home. While the political controversy rages over federal efforts to manage local school lunch programs, more data on who has actual ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2014 - 3:55pm

1990s Protectionism: Why Foreign PhDs Leave The USA

In all of the money and outreach trying to convince more Americans to become scientists, what is most often left out is we train lots of scientists that we then force to return home, where they become competitors to America. The origin of the student visa ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2014 - 5:45pm