Science & Society

Cheap Yuppies: The Demographics Of Heroin Users Have Changed

Heroin is popular again, though not for reasons you expect. Gone are the days of desperate junkies in poverty settings. Now it is primarily cheap young urban professionals. Few studies on the demographics of present day heroin users have compared them to ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2014 - 5:13pm

At Work, Being Bullied Is Better Than Being Ignored

Many people, regardless of occupation, have experienced a difficult boss or annoying co-workers. It might even be harassment or bullying. It's still better than being ignored, according to a paper in Organization Science. University of British Columb ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2014 - 10:30am

Geoscience: The One Area Of Science Where Graduates Don't Outpace Jobs

The American Geosciences Institute's newest Status of the Geoscience Workforce Report, released May 2014, has good news: jobs requiring training in the geosciences continue to be lucrative and in-demand. Even with STEM outreach campaigns causing the ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2014 - 3:43pm

Department Of Justice Isn't Much Interested In Managing Local Police Reform

In 1994, Congress passed 42 U.S.C. Section 14141 as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, granting the U.S. attorney general the power to initiate structural reform litigation against local police departments engaged in a pattern or p ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2014 - 5:00pm

American Doctors Shift To The Left Politically

A recent analysis of voting trends of physicians has found that political contributions have gone up a lot and more of them have become Democrats; no surprise given Democratic efforts to increase federal presence in medicine. The percentage of physicians m ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2014 - 3:01pm

Is Gender Blind Research On Innovation Valuable?

To advertisers, there is only one knock on the Science 2.0 audience; there are too many women. Before we complain about the sexism of advertisers, we have to take the issue on its merits. When we think of technological innovation, we think of men. Is it be ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2014 - 9:47am

Weekend Hospital Admissions Have 15 Percent Higher Mortality Rates

If you want to survive your hospital stay, try to avoid being admitted on the weekend. A systematic review and meta-analysis of various world regions that included 72 studies and 55,053,719 participants found that weekend admission was associated with in ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2014 - 11:00am

The Science Is Irrelevant: Nutrionists Will Recommend Supplements Whether They Work Or Not

In a letter to the Annals of Internal Medicine, a group of nutritionists object to all of the studies finding supplements are well-marketed but unnecessary costs for most Americans. Their rebuttal: they don't harm anyone, they are relatively cheap ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2014 - 9:30pm

Cosmos Ratings In The Home Stretch

Cosmos, hosted by Science 2.0 fave Dr. Neil Tyson, is wrapping up and it seems to have found its niche. Its 3,450,000 viewers yesterday is way down from its debut but it is nowhere near the crash-and-burn Seth MacFarlane has just experienced with A Millio ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 2 2014 - 8:05pm

Five Tasty Reasons To Reconsider GMO Crops