Science & Society

A Fight With The Wife May Lengthen Your Life

A good fight with your spouse may be good for your health, research suggests. Couples in which both the husband and wife suppress their anger when one attacks the other die earlier than members of couples where one or both partners express their anger and ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2008 - 11:32pm

Andre Brown's Talk On Science2.0

From Bora Zivkovic's A Blog around the Clock: ...

Article - Jean-Claude Bradley - May 15 2010 - 10:10am

Controversial Alzheimer's Theory Gets Funding

Dr. Shaohua Xu, Florida Tech associate professor of biological sciences, has an original theory of the origin of Alzheimer’s Disease and has earned a $150,000 grant from Space Florida to test it. The grant was matched with $30,000 from NASA’s Aerospace Med ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2008 - 12:46am

Russian Women Exercise Post-Soviet Free Will By Smoking A Lot More

Communist dictatorships don't get credit for much but one thing about them made anti-smoking advocates happy; a lack of cigarettes meant fewer people puffed. Yes, according to a new study in an anti-smoking journal, capitalism is to blame. Contrary to ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2009 - 12:29pm

Do Super Bowl Ads Really Work?

Monster.com is the perfect example of a company that spent its entire marketing budget on a Super Bowl ad and launched a success story. Is that the exception? No, it turns out that Super Bowl advertisements do work, but not in the way you might expect. Th ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 30 2008 - 9:42pm

Who's 'Greener', Democrats Or Republicans?

Political party affiliation has little bearing on the number of “green” actions people take, a new study by Porter Novelli and George Mason University shows. According to the survey of more than 11,000 American adults and nearly 1,000 of their children, De ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 31 2008 - 10:33am

Are Cartoons Less Male Chauvinistic Now? Were They Ever?

Honestly, did you even known there was a Department of Pedagogy anywhere? Well, there is. They teach about the science of teaching. And apparently cartoons. Pilar Casares García is a teacher in the Department of Pedagogy at the University of Granada but in ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 3 2008 - 11:10am

Students, Spend Your Summer At The Perimeter Institute Science Camp

TORONTO, Canada, February 1 /PRNewswire/-- Budding young physicists, age 16 and 17, can now apply to attend the 'International Summer School for Young Physicists' (ISSYP) at Perimeter Institute (PI), the independent, non-profit research center i ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2008 - 3:17pm

Cartoons Stereotype Gender Roles

We haven't come that far, baby. In the 1970's male cartoon characters outnumbered female cartoon characters by a ratio of almost four to one. Research presented at the American Psychological Association's (APA) 105th Annual Convention in Chi ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2008 - 10:12am

Interview With Gary Taubes (part 6)

Continued from Part 5: I interviewed Gary Taubes by phone a few weeks ago, shortly after he gave a talk about the main ideas of his new book — Good Calories, Bad Calories — at UC Berkeley. The interview lasted about 2 hours. This is part 6. SETH: When I s ...

Article - Seth Roberts - Feb 7 2008 - 10:49am