Science & Society

Gun Trends In The 21st Century

Gun ownership in the United States has gone way up yet murders have plummeted. Though high-profile tragedies get mainstream media attention, the gun ban contingent has lost a lot of ground in culture.  ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2014 - 6:50pm

By 2014, If West Wing Science And Medicine Were Real Life...

A solid 12 years after most of its audience stopped watching "The West Wing", I decided to start- all 154 episodes. In the interest of transparency, I disclose I skipped two- one was a retrospective and one was nothing but a debate between two ch ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 30 2014 - 1:32pm

Only One Third Of Dr. Oz Show Recommendations Is Believable, Finds Analysis

Televisiom programs such as "The Dr. Oz Show" and "The Doctors" have attracted massive followings, primarily due to having charismatic hosts who clearly mean well, coupled with a public desire to know the science basis for how we funct ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2014 - 6:15pm

Babies In Your 30s Is Not Modern- Your Great-Grandmother Did It Too

Freeze your eggs or your career? Shutterstock By Jenna Healey, Yale University ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 19 2014 - 3:30pm

Science Academia Is Out Of The Political Mainstream- But Social Science Is Out There Like Pluto

It's no secret that universities are left-wing- conservatives have complained about that since the early 1950s, but back then it was mostly in the humanities so only those conservatives who came from the humanities and invariably ended up in Washingto ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 23 2019 - 11:28am

Christmas Is A Secular Holiday, Not A Religious One

It's the time of the year when there are jokes about politically correct people demanding equal time for a Festivus pole on the steps of City Hall and pundits on the other side are scourging culture for the fact that we have any religious events at a ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 23 2015 - 12:25am

Family Holiday Survival: 12 Ways To Deal With That Climate Change Denier

Try to avoid making this face when dealing with a climate change skeptic this holiday. bark /flickr, CC BY By Will J Grant, Australian National University and Rod Lamberts, Australian National University ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 24 2014 - 1:25pm

Christmas Traffic Jams Were Worse In The Past

We might think that Christmas is more commercial now than in the past- and the season certainly starts earlier- but when it comes to one key barometer the 1950s were pretty bad. Though the 1950s had lots of cultural problems compared to today, economically ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 23 2014 - 9:30am

James Bond Is Getting Back To Branding

In the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953), British MI6 agent James Bond designed his own martini, comprising three measures of Gordon's gin, one of vodka and half a measure of Kine Lillet (vermouth) shaken until it's ice cold and served ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 23 2014 - 10:00am

Business Schools- Hark The Herald Angels Sing About Management

Francesco Botticini's The Assumption of the Virgin shows the heavenly hierarchies at play. By Martin Parker, University of Leicester ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 23 2014 - 11:37am