Science & Society

Conservative Man Ideal: The David Cameron Guide To Modern Masculinity

On Monday, Cameron revealed that he would not be seeking a third term as PM. He chose an informal interview with the BBC’s deputy political editor, James Landale, as the platform for his surprise announcement.The announcement caused feverish media specula ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 25 2015 - 7:49pm

Vaccine Confidence Index Early Results

It's been a decade since the Northern Nigeria polio vaccination boycott of polio eradication efforts and a new report examines global issues affecting vaccine confidence and hesitation since the new millennium. Unfortunately they include  the countrie ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2015 - 8:13pm

25 Percent Of High School Seniors Try Water Pipes

Cigarette smoking is down, thanks to fines and taxes on cigarette companies that fund anti-smoking campaigns- but hookah (water pipe) use is up. A new paper in Cancer Causes and Control worries that almost one in four high school seniors may try smoking h ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 29 2015 - 2:14pm

The Mediterranean Diet Will Reduce Global Warming

The Mediterranean diet became a health fad when epidemiologists looked at a region in Europe and determined that their lower heart disease was due to more fish. A new paper uses a debunked claim "it takes a gallon of gas to make a pound of beef"  ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2015 - 11:39am

Ontario Agriculture Minister Can't Even Pronounce Varroa Mites

I wouldn't have thought a reason to ban the type of pesticides called neonicotinoids ("neonics"), which replaced broad spectrum organophosphate pesticides with a product similar to nicotine that naturally acts on specific receptors in the ne ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 29 2015 - 12:49pm

Forensic Fandom: One Of The Reasons TV Storytelling Is Now So Complex

If you watch the season finale of The Walking Dead this Sunday, the story will likely evoke events from previous episodes, while making references to an array of minor and major characters. Such storytelling devices belie the show’s simplistic scenario of ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 28 2015 - 2:00pm

BP's Extreme Climate Forecast: Storm-proofing For Shareholders Or Corporate Handcuffs?

BP’s annual Energy Outlook report, released in February, details the results from modelling of what it sees as the “most likely” energy scenario out to 2035. In this scenario global fossil use increases by 33%, consistent with a scenario the International ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 31 2015 - 11:09pm

Holistic Medicine Gurus Can Find Diseases In Your Coffee Pot

A holistic medicine guru had a sucker customer patient with a pesky issue that couldn't be solved with the usual alternative and complementary medicine routine- eliminating gluten or adding whatever Miracle Vegetable is in the New York Times this week ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 7 2015 - 4:26pm

What The Environmental Movement Should Learn From Religion: That They're A Religion

This past weekend, 2 billion Christians celebrated Easter, when Jesus was a martyr for the sins of man. The weekend before that, environmentalists celebrated ignorance, poverty, and backwardness under the name Earth Hour, and they wondered why more people ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 8 2018 - 11:58am

Female-Dominated Teams Help Women Get Ahead In Science

Though girls at a young age enjoy Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), by the time they graduate from college their interests have changed. Women still prefer the life sciences and dominate the social sciences, but in other areas like physics ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2015 - 2:53pm