Science & Society

Top Organic Marketing Trustees Resign Because A Member Ridicules Homeopathy

Psychics, homeopaths, magic soap buyers, anti-vaccine and anti-energy people, they all share one thing in common- no, no, not the same political party (good guess, though!), they embrace organic food. And if you don't also embrace their giant swath of ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 5 2014 - 3:20pm

Is 2014 The End Of Framing? Only 15 Percent Of Americans Believe In Creationism

A decade ago, gas was cheap, the American economy was booming and so was partisan rhetoric about a disconnect on science related to politics. One side was good, one was bad. President George W. Bush, who had boosted NASA funding after declines in the Clint ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 23 2019 - 11:40am

Government Employees Have A "Higher Intrinsic Need To Serve The Public"

Government and non-profit employees have higher public service motivations than corporate managers, according to surveys of government and non-profit employees in Georgia. They don't simply do the minimum when it comes to eco-friendly initiatives, th ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2014 - 5:01pm

The Politics And Economics Of Net Neutrality

Do you have a right to high-speed Internet or can Internet Service Providers (ISPs) create different tiers for different customers? In Florida and in Pennsylvania, there are toll roads. People pay the fee and get to a destination along the toll road quick ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2014 - 11:14am

Family-Friendly Workplace Policies Make People Happy, But Don't Affect Turnover Rates

It's no secret that a happy worker is a productive worker and a new analysis by scholars at The University of Texas at Dallas finds that family-friendly policies are beneficial for increasing productivity of employees. Yet the benefit for employers i ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2014 - 1:18pm

Liberal And Conservative Genetic Woo: How Behavioral Genetics Reporting Can Mislead The Public

A study of 1,500 Americans found that media reports about behavioral genetics create unfounded beliefs about what genes can and cannot do, which defeats the purpose of scientific reporting, according to a new analysis. American adults lead the world in sci ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2014 - 9:30am

The Confluence Of Pop Music And Science

How much science is in pop music? Can pop culture enhance science communication? A sociology duo recently explored the occurrence of science in the lyrics of Taiwanese pop music. Their results revealed that expressions from the field of astronomy and space ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2014 - 8:00am

Immigration Recitivism: Illegal Immigrants Who Go To Jail More Likely To Be Rearrested Later

Illegal aliens who have been deported from the United States are more than 2.5 times more likely to be rearrested after leaving jail, and are likely to be rearrested much more frequently than those who have never been removed, according to a new RAND Corp ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2014 - 1:13pm

Being Raised By A Single Mother Is The New Normal

Divorce rates have gone down; the oft-cited 1970s statistic that 'half of all marriages end in divorce' was never really correct, but the belief that it was made divorce much more common. More young people today are also avoiding divorce by avoi ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2014 - 11:44pm

“There Was More Than One Lobster Present At The Birth Of Jesus?”

Neapolitans have given fishmongers and celebrities alike a place at the nativity for hundreds of years. acetosa888, CC BY-SA By Jessica Hughes, The Open University There’s a scene in the film "Love Actually" where a little girl announces that sh ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 17 2014 - 9:00am