Science & Society

Where Women Don't Belong: 2 Strategies You And I Both Use To Keep Women Out Of Science

If you'd stop believing the  myth  that women are too slow out of the gate when they are supposed to add numbers, and if you start believing the  fact  that men are too fast, we might be able to make a little progress on gender balance in technical c ...

Article - Curt Rice - Mar 20 2014 - 9:10am

Doctors Are Too Quick To Prescribe Antidepressants

A study of 235 bereaved parents participating in an online support community revealed that startling 37.4 percent of them were prescribed a psychiatric medication to help them cope with the loss of their child, either during pregnancy or within the first ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2014 - 10:27am

Massachusetts Health Care Reform Led To Increased ER Use

As the expansion of health care coverage becomes mandatory nationwide, people are looking to Massachusetts, which had already expanded health insurance coverage to nearly everyone in the state, for implications. The answer may be a source of dread for sta ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2014 - 2:21pm

Good Or Bad For Obamacare? 42 Percent Of Americans Are Clueless About Health Insurance

Can you explain what a deductible is? If you can, you are in the majority- but not by much. Instead, survey results have found that the people most likely to benefit from the Affordable Care Act, those earning near the Federal Poverty Level, remain the mo ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2014 - 3:58pm

Thoughts About Norm Borlaug On: The 100th Birthday Of "The Man Who Fed The World"

Norman Borlaug would have been 100 years old today. He has been called "The Man Who Fed The World," and "The Father of The Green Revolution." Norm Borlaug was the first plant pathologist to be awarded a Nobel Prize (1970)- for contribut ...

Article - Steve Savage - Mar 26 2014 - 1:47pm

Generation X Versus Baby Boomers: Who's In Worse Health?

Generations are generally useless, aside from marketing plans. The Baby Boom happened in 1946, after soldiers returned home from war (the occupying soldiers came from a different, supplemental draft so they often already had kids) and it was later that ma ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2014 - 10:13am

Video Gaming Doesn't Replace Player Social Lives, It Expands Them

There is a belief that online social behavior related to video gaming replaces real life but scholars found that is not so; instead of making the social circle smaller, it expands the social lives of gamers. The authors traveled to more than 20 public gam ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2014 - 11:01am

Academic Workplace Bias Hurts Everyone

People who have worked in both academia and the corporate world claim that the bias in academia is worse- which sounds odd, given the nature of academia. But statistics bear that out. Undergraduate representation of political views and handicapped people, ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2014 - 9:49am

What Would Newton Do? He Wouldn't Tweet

There are recurring calls to make scientists more social. Scientists have already accepted government control of academic research and now fellow academics and some in the bureaucracy want to task them with communications and outreach also. A few even wan ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2014 - 8:51pm

Schools Don't Stop Bullying And Boys Are Bullies As Much As Girls- Review

In what they are calling the most thorough analysis to date of studies on school bullying, the psychologists who authored a review on the topic in Annual Review of Psychology say that K-12 schools' efforts to curtail bullying are often disappointing ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2014 - 1:01am