Science & Society

This morning I was on the nationwide agriculture radio program, AgriTalk, hosted by Mike Adams. This is the rational Mike Adams, not the "Health Ranger" conspiracy theorist. Mike brings up all of the key points- that people simultaneously say the ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 15 2014 - 11:34am

Sorry Chris Christie, Weight Bias Plagues US Elections

Overweight political candidates have gotten fewer votes than thinner opponents, finds a new study co-authored by a Michigan State University weight bias expert. Of course, discrimination is everywhere, it is the favored position of the humanities in tryin ...

Article - News Staff - May 19 2014 - 4:50pm

Green Fatigue: Public Isn't Affected By Climate Change Scandals- Or New Science

After reaching a high-water mark in 2006, when media talking points were portrayed by journalists as settled science prior to the actual IPCC reports in 2007, people have steadily lost interest in climate change since then. There is an upside to that. Sca ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2014 - 6:26pm

Natural Gas Is A Net Win For The Environment- And The Local Economy

Oil and gas development from shale fields leads to high-paying jobs and a boost to property taxes, sales taxes and state-collected severance taxes or fees. Do they outweigh the increased costs related to road damage heavy truck traffic, water and sewer se ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2014 - 4:47pm

Are Organic Apples At Risk Of Being Redefined As Contaminated?

An Apple Orchard In Bloom There is an interesting new "GMO" apple nearing approval in the US and in Canada called the "Arctic Apple."It was developed by a British Columbia grower-based organization called Okanagan Specialty Fruit. ...

Article - Steve Savage - May 23 2014 - 12:31pm

More Kids Don't Walk To School Because Parents Don't Let Them

It's easy to complain about child obesity but one way to help solve it is to have kids do more exercise in ways that don't feel like exercise; like walking or biking to school. Yet parents, the people most likely to be concerned about child heal ...

Article - News Staff - May 22 2014 - 7:30pm

The Direct And Indirect Effects Of Social Marketing On Movies

Word-of-mouth marketing is recognized as a powerful route from long-tail sales to blockbuster and in the age of social media and online networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, spreading the word could mean the difference between consumers seeing a ...

Article - News Staff - May 23 2014 - 10:35am

Christianity Had Greater Influence On Welfare States Than Previously Known

A new paper from the University of Münster finds that religious communities had a much greater influence on the formation of European welfare states than has previously been known. This not a secret, churches cared for poor people when European monarchies ...

Article - News Staff - May 25 2014 - 1:29pm

Why Ebenezer the fossilized Allosaurus does not prove young Earth Creationism.

Four simple reasons that Ebenezer the dinosaur does not prove young Earth creationism. Young Earth creationist are happy to have their own museum at which to present their case. In brief, a dinosaur fossil found in flood deposits means that it was killed i ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 26 2014 - 8:24am

Doctor Shortage: Graduate Medical Education System Needs To Be Reformed

The United States contributes almost $10 billion a year from Medicare into funding the Graduate medical education (GME) system but it fails to provide the workforce needed for the 21st century and lacks the necessary transparency and accountability. Inste ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2014 - 4:00pm