Science & Society

Little Considered: Treatment Of Transgendered Prison Inmates

It's pretty common in culture, from Turkey to Tennessee, for a public that otherwise does not condone rape to joke about it when it comes to male criminals. And the more heinous the crime, not only does it become acceptable, but almost demanded in a ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2014 - 1:18pm

GMO Labels Are Good For The $105 Billion Organic Industry- But No One Else

Frank Priestley, President of the Idaho Farm Bureau, notes that some consumers will benefit from GMO labeling laws- if those consumers are organic farmers and have an audience so educated by advertising that they will pay almost any price for 'health& ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 21 2014 - 5:40pm

Big Data Could Be A Big Problem For Workplace Discrimination Law

What if whether you got a job was determined by which web browser you used? Shutterstock By Mark Burdon, The University of Queensland and Paul Harpur, The University of Queensland Staff recruitment and retention are an ongoing challenge for employers. Pro ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 23 2014 - 6:19pm

Diversity Fatigue: Why Businesses Struggle To Close The Gender Gap

Diversity is listed at the bottom of priorities for human resources professionals in large firms yet many mangers still feel threatened by diversity policies.shutterstock By Jennifer Whelan, Melbourne Business School Many large organizations are now on th ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 25 2014 - 12:29pm

Australia: Incomes Fell As Stressed Economy Continued To Struggle

Australia recently had an election where they asked for a dramatic departure from previous fiscal policies.  The reasons were simple, in hindsight. Everyone wanted more money from an increasingly larger government but incomes were declining. Inflation is ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 25 2014 - 2:00pm

Crime And British Muslims: Fact Versus Fiction

Muslim communities are not be as victimized by violent crime nor are they as dissatisfied with the police as most sociology papers claim. An examination of statistics in the Crime Survey of England and Wales between 2006 and 2010, generated by nearly 5,00 ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2014 - 8:30am

Today's Teens Are Not As Bad As We're Led To Believe

What do you presume about me? auremar /Shutterstock By James Williams, University of Sussex ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 2 2014 - 9:30am

When It Comes To Neonics, Activists Understand PR Better Than Chemical Companies Do

Imagine a scenario where a group of people get together to frame the debate about science and even set out to conspiratorially place papers in highly-respected journals, selecting the ideal names to have on the paper and which publications would be most li ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 8 2014 - 4:14pm

Cognitive Bias: Why Neurotic People Make This Real Estate Choice More

A paper in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics finds that personality traits are strong indicators of real-estate decisions. Are you neurotic? You probably have a cognitive bias toward home ownership instead of renting. You'll probab ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 3 2014 - 3:00pm

Climate Change Experts And Activists Might Be In Denial Too

But what do you want unconsciously? Julien Behal / PA By Steffen Böhm, University of Essex and Aanka Batta, University of Essex ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 4 2014 - 4:02pm