Science & Society

Vitamin-Enirched GMOs Are Not Just Healthier, They Can Be Profitable

How can a product which can be made for free be profitable? It happens all of the time. Words are free, for example, yet the Wall Street Journal sells good ones to its customers. Science 2.0 was built on open source tools but lots of consulting companies d ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2015 - 11:27am

50 Percent Of Fatal Crashes With Young Victims Involved Pot Or Alcohol- Study

US states as different as California, West Virginia and Hawaii share one thing in common- half of automobile fatalities involving young drivers, ages 16 to 25 years, involved pot or alcohol. And those results were from years before the cultural push to mak ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2015 - 12:49pm

AirAsia 8501- Both Black Boxes With NTSC

AirAsia 8501- Both Black Boxes With NTSC Data Analysis Begins Soon It has now been confirmed officially that the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) has been recovered.  It was delivered to the National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) in a case containing ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 13 2015 - 1:22pm

What Explains The Differing Media Coverage Of Charlie Hebdo And The Baga Massacre?

One was about 17 Westerners being killed and one was about 2,000 Africans. Guess which got most of the media attention? Kano, Nigeria Stringer/Reuters. By Ethan Zuckerman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Consider two tragic events that took place la ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 14 2015 - 8:30am

Now That Prices Have Dropped, Hiking Gasoline Taxes Is Back On The Table

Prices of gas are approaching $2 a gallon. Does that make it a good time to raise the gas tax? Kevin Lamarque/Reuters By Wallace Tyner, Purdue University ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 13 2015 - 10:30pm

Want To Be In STEM? Here Are The 10 Best Metro Areas

If you want a career in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, you have probably been cautioned that academia, awash in Federal money promoting STEM careers, can maybe employ 15 percent of the PhDs in science they graduate. The private sector still acc ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 14 2015 - 3:21pm

Edutainment: Why University Lecturers Play To Their Audience

Can you dance like Robbie Williams? It would go down great in a lecture hall. Jonathan Brady/PA Archive By Justin O'Brien, Royal Holloway ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 16 2015 - 8:30am

How Prevalent Is Islamic Fundamentalism In Europe? It's Alarming

Last week's terrorist attacks in Paris were religiously-based and they have brought to the fore an issue that France, and most of Europe, had chosen to ignore: determining how prevalent religious fundamentalism is. A new paper says that creating Musli ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2015 - 12:25pm

Survey Finds New Cause Of Gender Gap In Academia

There is a gender gap in some fields of academia. Some are skewed heavily toward women and some are skewed heavily toward men, though some have too little variation to be meaningful. But why are there any gaps at all? Various explanations have been offered ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2015 - 12:12pm

The Bogus Link Between Ivory And Terrorism

They're suspected al-Shabaab militants – but probably not ivory traders. UN, CC BY-NC-SA By Diogo Veríssimo, Georgia State University It is often said that if something is repeated often enough, it becomes accepted as true. This has certainly been th ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 18 2015 - 12:31pm