Science & Society

17,493 Ways To Hold Universities Accountable

Until university leaders can supply politicians with better approaches to accountability, they're just going to count. In Norway right now, we're in the midst of counting season. And because of the sharp folks at Current Research Information Syst ...

Article - Curt Rice - Apr 18 2014 - 10:35am

The Human Food Relationship: It's Complicated

Home can sometimes literally be in the kitchen. A Puerto Rican community- in Connecticut of all places- creates cuisine authentic it has caught the attention of scientists. Like immigrants throughout history who ventured forth with their favorite plants i ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2014 - 4:57pm

From Finland To Asia, Slaves Were Big Business

If you were a blonde girl or boy captured in a raid a few hundred years ago, you were an exotic luxury item so valuable it was worthwhile to transport you to far-away markets in Asia. Slave-trading was so common the routes stretched from Finland, the Russ ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2014 - 10:47am

The Suicide Epidemic Among India’s Marginalized Farmers

A statistical analysis determines that in India’s agriculture sector following the liberalization of the nation’s economy during the 1990s,  suicides among small, debt-ridden farmers- who are clinging to tiny holdings, less than one hectare- and are trying ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2014 - 10:25am

Gender Biases Persist in Science, Says Panel

When Elise Andrew, the creator of the phenomenally popular social media site I F***ing Love Science, shared her personal Twitter account in 2013 with the site's fans, she said the Internet “lost its mind.” At first, the influx of comments might have ...

Blog Post - Brandon T. Bisceglia - Apr 18 2014 - 8:00pm

Kepler- Young Earth Creationist

In the latest episode of Cosmos we got some history regarding how science has tried to converge on the age of the Earth. With that, we also got another jab at religion. Why use yet another religious contrast from hundreds of years ago to show the awesome p ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 12 2018 - 7:09pm

Earth Day: Parents Concerned About The Planet For Future Generations – But Aren't Taking Action

2,234 adults surveyed online between March 12 and 17, 2014 by The Harris Poll reveal that people are concerned about the environment- but may not be doing much about it. And over 80 percent avoid labels like “green”, “conservationist” and “environmentalist ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2014 - 12:06am

Earth Day: Is The Temperature A Symptom Of Climate Change?

77% of Americans prefer summer over winter and while we know what temperatures actually were this past winter, what people think they were in a recent Harris Poll is something else. When it came to the temperature, 88 percent of Midwesterners and 84 percen ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2014 - 5:30am

'Tween' Programming: Is Disney Promoting Stereotypes Or Creating What Kids Want To Watch?

The term "tween" is a marketing colloquialism for a child who is between the ages of 8 and 12-not quite a little kid but not yet a teenager. A pre-adolescent. This demographic watches more television than any other age group and is thus consider ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 23 2014 - 12:38am

32 Percent Of Canadian Adults Say They Were Abused As Kids

Canadians may seem polite to outsiders, that maple leaf on a backpack says pacificism all over the world, but they are apparently quite hard on their kids. A Canadian Medical Association Journal articles says that almost one-third of adults in Canada have ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2014 - 6:00pm