Science & Society

School Shootings: Looking For Warning Signs

There's no way to legislate evil out of existence and mentally ill homicidal people are sometimes going to commit gruesome crimes. It has no cultural boundaries. The same day a mentally ill American attacked children in Connecticut a man in China did ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2012 - 3:43pm

Are Science Site Readers into Science or only Sex

Write a critical article about how science careers, including your own, are destroyed and science is corrupted today; put it on a “science” site; get 2400 readers in three months and basically no reaction except for a so called “Institute of ETHICS and Em ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 14 2013 - 12:42pm

Health Robotics Raises Prices To Implement Full Health Care For Employees

Health Robotics has informed customers it will raise prices so as to be able to fully comply with The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), including health insurance benefits for its USA-based employees.  The price increases will apply to bot ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 27 2012 - 11:37am

Gun Ownership Denial For Misdemeanors Will Stop Mass Shootings, Says Advocate

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Article - News Staff - Dec 28 2012 - 1:11am

Advertise Your Half-Baked Science Here!

The relationship between the work of science and works of fiction has gone on for a long time. It's time to put a ring on that finger. It's no secret that fiction writers have been pilfering ideas from science for generations. Verne did it. Wells ...

Article - David Sloan - Nov 14 2013 - 10:53am

What Would Be A Food Movement Worthy Of The Name?

Back in October, author Michael Pollan wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times   in which he said the upcoming vote on California Proposition 37 would show whether or not the “Food Movement” had developed into “a movement worthy of the name.”   Prop ...

Article - Steve Savage - Jan 1 2013 - 8:28pm

When Science Goes To Pot

Disclaimer: I have never smoked pot. Not interested. But, I have been very interested in the decades-old debate about it. On one side you have people who claim it as a benign, useful substance that should be legal. On the other side, you have people who cl ...

Article - David Sloan - Jan 1 2013 - 2:58pm

When Science Goes To Pot Part II: Evaluations And Perceptions

I. Preface I recently posted an article (Part I) in which I proposed a hypothetical scenario, in which an individual who is offered marijuana takes time out to research the drug exclusively through recent articles on PubMed to see if its a good idea or ba ...

Article - David Sloan - Jan 2 2013 - 3:38pm

The Disappearance Of School Prayer

A saying goes, "as long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools", but they meant that students would look for help wherever they could get it.  But a subset of people felt it also reflected a fairly uniform view about school p ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 3 2013 - 5:00am

Gâteau extraordinaire?

          When I saw this this morning, my first impression was one of a cake produced in a television chefs competition. But what is it?  Guesses welcome.  I hope to give you the answer by Monday.        ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jan 3 2013 - 11:52am