Science & Society

It's easy to complain about child obesity but one way to help solve it is to have kids do more exercise in ways that don't feel like exercise; like walking or biking to school. Yet parents, the…

An Apple Orchard In Bloom There is an interesting new "GMO" apple nearing approval in the US and in Canada called the "Arctic Apple."It was developed by a British Columbia grower-based organization…

After reaching a high-water mark in 2006, when media talking points were portrayed by journalists as settled science prior to the actual IPCC reports in 2007, people have steadily lost interest in…

Oil and gas development from shale fields leads to high-paying jobs and a boost to property taxes, sales taxes and state-collected severance taxes or fees. Do they outweigh the increased costs…

Friends of the Earth, most famous for being against nuclear energy and every other bit of modern science and technology, now thinks most scientists are unethical - unless they are hand-picked by…

Did you cheer when Julian Assange and WikiLeaks made the news but boo when Snowden showed the NSA is spying on American citizens? Are you boycotting NASA because of an espionage-prevention rule that…

http://nypost.com/2013/10/08/us-adults-are-dumber-than-the-average-human/ The study, called the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, found that it was easier on average to…

two Representative are Republicans - Richard Hanna and George Miller (but he is a Californian, so pretty much a Democrat) Sen. Bernie Sanders is not a Democrat, he is an Independent Democrat-…

In Science Left Behind, I made what seemed to be an obvious point to everyone outside science journalism - but to very few in it: do not defend science. Science does not need defending. So if you…

There is an easy litmus test to know if you are talking to an atheist; mention science in the ancient world. Or the modern world. They really want to tell you how religious people are wrong. Critics…