Science & Society

Boom And Bust: As Government Takes Over Science, Funding Becomes Prone To Bubble Formation

The government enjoyed tremendous success steering the goals of science in World War II and that continued during the NASA era. Since that time, government has exercised greater control of science through larger and larger pools of funding that have gradu ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2013 - 3:34pm

Video Games Provide Learning, Health And Social Benefits, Review Finds

Video games, including the violent shooter games which are found to be good and bad in various studies, may boost children's learning, health and social skills, according to a review of research published in the American Psychologist. The review come ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2013 - 5:31pm

Habitable Planet Searches (And Claims) Should Be More Focused

NASA should trademark 'has implications for life on other planets'- every other month there are claims about habitable exoplanets, but they are based on statistical wobbles and it isn't informing the public as well it such claims could beca ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2013 - 2:36pm

Medical Research Needs Kids- But Most Parents Don't Do It

If pharmaceutical companies are unethical, scientists are just tinkerers and doctors are educated by marketing, why would parents sign up their kids for medical research? Those concepts are perpetuated in both mass and science media so it's no surpri ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2013 - 12:20pm

Fires, Floods Or Sharks? Ocean Rip Currents Are More Dangerous Than All Of Them Combined

Rip currents claim more lives in Australia on average each year than bushfires, floods, cyclones and sharks combined- but don't get too nervous, rip currents only cause about 21 confirmed human fatalities per year. Rip currents are strong, narrow sea ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 27 2013 - 11:22pm

US Mothers: You're A Lot Lazier Than In The Past, Say Epidemiologists

A new paper from the University of South Carolina says that mothers in the U.S. are far less physically active than they were in previous decades and now spend more time engaged in sedentary activities like watching television than in cooking, cleaning an ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2013 - 8:12pm

Is colour helpful?

A couple of days ago, I read this on Real Clear Science: Why Spelling Tests Don’t Help Kids Spell by Misty Adoniou I highly recommend this short article, but I would like to pick out one sentence: Nor is getting children to write their spelling words out ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 4 2013 - 2:28pm

The Real 1 Percent That Is A Problem: The 1 Percent That Is 63 Percent Of Violent Crime Convictions

The majority of all violent crime in Sweden is committed by a small number of people and they have a definable demographic- personality disorders, substance abuse problems and almost all males (92%) who early in life develop violent criminality and begin ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2013 - 2:06pm

Are Journal Citations Biased Against Women?

Scholars at Indiana University  say that lower citation rates for women are due to bias. In the past, fewer women worked outside the home and as that gradually shifted, there was hiring bias, which means historically women have had fewer science citations ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2013 - 5:07pm

Birds Of A Feather Flock Together: Self-Segregation Is Everywhere, Even Church

When you hear people talk about diversity, they often mean they want a majority of people just like them. Anything less is worrisome. It's that way in sports teams, the halls of academia and even church. People who are part of a religious congregatio ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2013 - 10:49am