Science & Society

Crime Is Down, Murders Are Down, But The Numbers In Jail Are Not Worth It- Report

In the United States, murders have plummeted in the last 20 years, as has crime. A culture that in the 1980s was commonly projected to be morphing into gangs of youth wilding across urban areas has become just the opposite. Even New York City is reasonabl ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2014 - 5:16pm

60 Years Of Citizen Science For Midwestern Lakes

Over 60 years of data collected across 8 states by citizen scientists may demonstrate their potential to contribute to monitoring long-term lake water trends over a large area, according to results published April 30, 2014, in the open access journal PLOS ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2014 - 10:00pm

3 Rules Of Thumb To Reduce Childhood Obesity

There are three simple family-oriented rules of thumb to overcome childhood obesity. They basically involve limit setting to address the brain's "get more" drive strengthened through habitual over-consumption of temptations including highly ...

Article - News Staff - May 1 2014 - 11:20am

UK Children Have One Of The Highest Death Rates In Western Europe

Although, by international standards, the UK has very low rates of deaths in children, within western Europe the UK has a higher rate of deaths in children than nearly every other country in the region. The mortality rate in the UK for children under five ...

Article - News Staff - May 4 2014 - 3:06pm

SIDS Persists Despite Recommendations For Safer Sleeping

About 4,000 babies die in their sleep each year from due to suffocation and strangulation despite recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics that infants always be placed on their backs to sleep and that they share a room with parents but not a ...

Article - News Staff - May 4 2014 - 9:00am

Privacy Is Not Dead- And 3 Other Privacy Myths Debunked

Privacy discussions of modern times have four pillars- and they are all weak, according to a new article. There are four main arguments about privacy: (1) it is dead; (2) people don't care about privacy and modern youth care even less; people with not ...

Article - News Staff - May 5 2014 - 4:00am

Anti-Semitic Behavior Escalated Sharply In 2013

It isn't just U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry insulting Jewish people, the whole world harassed, threatened and used abusive language toward Jews on an individual basis more in 2013. But there was a silver lining; a 20% decline in violent incident ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2014 - 4:30am

Food Activists Declare Synthetic Biology In League With Lucifer

If you want to find a hotbed of anti-science sentiment, sure, you could go to a cigar bar full of Republicans and mention that the temperature outside must be up because of global warming- and you would get lots of predictable responses, but you would not ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 7 2014 - 8:47am

Friends Of The Earth Wants To Learn Science

Friends of the Earth, most famous for being against nuclear energy and every other bit of modern science and technology, now thinks most scientists are unethical- unless they are hand-picked by Friends Of The Earth. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 22 2014 - 12:41pm

Gangs: Offender Today, Victim Tomorrow

Gang culture gets you one way or the other according to a new paper. Gang members are twice as likely to become both a victim and an offender of a crime than non-gang members. Why? Single acts of violence often lead to retribution between gangs as a whole ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2014 - 10:01am