Science & Society

Ideological Implications Of Nudes In Roman Mosaics

To ancient Romans, the depiction of female nudes in mosaics were meant to invoke beauty, carnality and eroticism while male bodies reflected determination, strength and power, according to work from the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) that analyzed ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2014 - 10:29am

Ideological Implications Of Nudes In Roman Mosaics

To ancient Romans, the depiction of female nudes in mosaics were meant to invoke beauty, carnality and eroticism while male bodies reflected determination, strength and power, according to work from the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) that analyzed ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2014 - 10:29am

Get Rid Of Retirement

America has a looming cost of services crisis but in the UK it's already here; people who retire expecting a certain standard of living have overwhelmed the tax base. To keep people working longer, a professor at the University of Southampton recomme ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2014 - 2:05pm

Rich People Abuse Their Kids Less- Paper

The Great Recession of 2009 deepened income inequality- except for the government, a lot more people were out of work and scholars have correlated that to county-by-county rates of child maltreatment, from sexual, physical and emotional abuse to traumatic ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2014 - 1:53pm

2014 Science And Engineering Indicators: 90 Percent Of Americans Respect Scientists

While each American political party has positions that are determined to undermine science (food, medicine and energy for Democrats, evolution and global warming for Republicans) their constituents still respect scientists overall, even if they don't ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 15 2014 - 2:32pm

Misconceptions About Science And Religion Abound

A small minority of religious and scientific communities insist the two can't get along. If you see 'scientocracy' or 'Galileo' invoked, you can be sure rationality has left the discussion. Almost 50 percent of scientists consider ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2014 - 10:24am

Most People Don't Think About The Moms Of Kids On Ventilators

If we see or read about a child on a life-sustaining medical device, such as a ventilators or breathing or feeding tube,  we naturally think about the child And when it comes to parents, we use platitudes like 'strong' but the physical and psych ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2014 - 12:26pm

Engage In Debates About Science And Society With Less Partisanship- Good Luck With That

Scientific institutions and organizations can improve their communication and outreach with the public by addressing people's strongly held beliefs about science and its role in society- and using less demagoguery. Or at least hiding it. Lead author ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2014 - 7:55pm

Avoid Helping Grow An Arab Spring? Democracy Efforts Fail If Larger Countries Try To Help

Politics always make strange bedfellows. When George W. Bush was president, the claim of his political opposition was that Iraq was 'no harm to anyone outside its own borders' and so we should not be involved there, much less do any nation build ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 20 2014 - 10:35am

Stop The Hatred: Parks Ecotourism Improved The Lifestyle In Costa Rica By 16 Percent

If you ask aging environmental activists, the worst thing that can happen to nature is to have people step onto it. This is the completely wrong approach, but one adopted by their corporate leaders in the last two generations when they found their donor b ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2014 - 7:00am