Science & Society

Californians Shoot Down The Food Temperance Movement

A few months ago, before Monsanto and DuPont realized Proposition 37 may have been started by anti-science crackpots but it was not going away and I was one of the few critical of it, I would have predicted GMO warning labels to win by 66%- because that is ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 7 2012 - 12:00pm

Junk Science And The Hypocrisy Of Medical Marijuana

My vague libertarian leanings want me to stay out of the marijuana issue, just like I don't interfere in vaginas and just like I think the government should stop micromanaging gold fish and Big Gulps and telling restaurants whether or not to allow a c ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 17 2013 - 1:47pm

Science Outreach In An Unlikely Venue

"China’s Openness no One-Way Alley" appeared in the The Nanjinger. After all, it is called “science outreach ” for a reason. From the article: ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 6 2014 - 3:07am

Reading Minds And Taking Names

The Synapse Gel that Tiffany was daubing on my forehead and temples looked and felt, but did not smell, like hand lotion. It carried with it the crisp and dainty musk of Science: a sterile, singeing pong that induced the slightest of nose-wrinkles and con ...

Article - Clayton Aldern - Dec 4 2015 - 10:25am

Blaming Hurricane Sandy On Global Warming Was Good Politics- But Terrible Science

Which esteemed body does not like any attribution of hurricanes to global warming? ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 4 2012 - 1:45pm

Back On The Market

AUCKLAND, NZ – This week, I missed Wednesday. Normally, the perils of crossing the International Date Line en route to field sites don’t bother me. After all, who really minds missing the middle of the working week? But this time, Wednesday’s absence bothe ...

Article - Holly Moeller - Nov 16 2012 - 12:30am

Rousseaunian Social Contract? Hobbes And The Fragility Of The Welfare State

A new annual analysis has again attempted to determine whether society can achieve something similar to the a Rousseaunian social contract. In order to do this, the economists carried out an experiment that reproduced in a laboratory setting some of the im ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2012 - 11:25am

Fracking: Conservation Groups Debate Doing Something Positive

When you think of modern conservation groups, you probably think of fundraising campaigns designed to scare people into giving money. They latch onto the latest doomsday cause, whether it has a science basis or not. What you don't often think of are c ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 25 2012 - 10:53am

Millennials Are Independent- Unless It Means Doing Laundry

Marketing people follow predictable patterns; in order to sell something it either needs to scare people or make them feel good.  "This ain't your father's" X is a timeless perceptual classic, meaning it is not old-fashioned and conserv ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2012 - 6:53pm

If An Artificial Intelligence Read 2.5 Million News Articles, What Would It Learn?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms recently parsed 2.5 million articles from 498 different English-language (online) news outlets over a period of ten months and created data about what was contained.  Could AI qualitatively give people more interest ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2012 - 2:00pm