Science & Society

Super Bowl Science: The Only Thing That Could Make Beer More Awesome

It's no shock to know there is no anthropology without beer. No history either. Really, it took alcohol to get someone to write down mundane events in longhand.  And beer-making equipment was prized above all else, that is why many of our earliest fin ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2015 - 5:25pm

Sense About Science Primer On Peer Review

Media is increasingly filled with miracle vegetable and scare journalism stories, all that say they are based on scientific studies. When faced with a headline that suggests an Alzheimer's drug increases the risk of heart attack or that watching TV i ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 9 2013 - 1:31pm

Supreme Court Slightly More Diverse Than 200 Years Ago

President Barack Obama has been criticized for a lack of diversity in his cabinet compared to his predecessor- charges he also faced when he was president of the Harvard Law Review and only 25% of editors chosen by him were women. His Supreme Court Justic ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2013 - 5:12pm

Addressing The Gaps In Mental Health Infrastructure

In a recent JAMA article, 2008 National Survey of Mental Health Treatment Facilities data of psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers and freestanding outpatient clinics or partial-care and multiservice mental health groups found that only 63 ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2013 - 7:00pm

PI3Ks And BTK Inhibitors Will Still Be Economic Drivers Until 2016

Heightened regulation, increased lawsuits and a resulting lack of venture capital has meant the western pharmaceutical industry faces a looming crisis but companies outside America and Europe may pick up the slack- new targets/drugs remain an evergreen me ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2013 - 4:30am

Elsevier, TWAS, And OWSD Honor Early Career Women Scientists In Developing Countries

Recognition of early-career women scientists helps encourage participation in medical research, builds strong research cultures, and inspires a new generation of scientists.  In that light, five medical and life science researchers from Africa, the Middle ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2013 - 1:06pm

Coffee: A Developing World Problem People Really Care About

You can bet that if I don't have my Double Black Diamond Extra Bold tomorrow morning, I am writing me a letter to Congress. Guatemalans take their coffee just as seriously and have already gone to Def-Con 1 over coffee rust, which is affecting 70% of ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 17 2013 - 1:50pm

Does Bias Hold Women Back In Academia?

Meg Urry was on the senior scientific staff at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which runs the Hubble Space Telescope for NASA. That's no surprise to people outside the government-funded research world, women have been doing quality scie ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 20 2013 - 11:07pm

I Got A Letter From The White House...

Because I signed a petition asking for increased open access of studies, I got an email from White House Science Czar Dr. John Holdren today- don't get excited, after all of the mean things I have said about him he is not suddenly writing me personall ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 25 2013 - 2:44pm

Can You Give Kids A Choice And Still Have Healthy School Lunches?

In January of 2012, the United States Department of Agriculture passed a series of regulations designed to make school lunches more nutritious, which included requiring schools to increase whole grain foods and forcing students to select either a fruit or ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 26 2013 - 10:21pm