Science & Society

Kind Snacks And Why You Should Ignore Marketing On Food Packages

By Sara Rennekamp, Inside Science  -- News broke this week that the company behind the popular Kind line of snack bars received a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration. Their offense? Not labeling the bars according to FDA rules-- primarily ...

Article - Inside Science - May 6 2015 - 11:12am

Expanded Hospice Improved Care But Raised Medicare Costs

A large study examined the impact of growth in Medicare's hospice benefit among nursing home residents between 2004 and 2009 and found improvement in indicators of care quality, such as less reliance on intensive care and feeding tubes, but that came ...

Article - News Staff - May 11 2015 - 10:30am

Gender Wage Gap In Academic Medical Education Hasn't Narrowed

The existence of wage gaps between genders in some occupations, from environmentalism to the White House to science academia, continues to be a hot-button topic. Medium- and lower-wage positions get the most attention but a new paper in The American Journa ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2015 - 9:14am

Popular Media Influences Childbirth Methods

Women's magazines influence decisions to have a more 'natural' childbirth or not, with most stories in favor of epidural or potentially a Cesarean section. Scholars writing in  Women&Health decided to assess the effect of communicating ...

Article - News Staff - May 11 2015 - 2:30pm

Millennials Like Sexual Freedom, But Cheating On Your Spouse Is Still A No-No

American Millennials may be even more sexually permissive than the 1970s generation, noted for its bisexuality and drugs and unprotected sex in a consequence-free environment. Teen sex, premarital sex, gay sex, it's all a lot more commonly accepted th ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2015 - 11:01am

Militant Animal Rights Activists Have Won A Battle Against Science

Militant animal rights activists have forced Tübingen neuroscientist Professor Nikos Logothetis’ to announce that he will no longer do primate research. The death threats and hostility he has received are not worth it, he said. But scientists are showing s ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2015 - 11:47am

Does Science Belong On Your Dinner Plate?

I was recently asked to give a talk in Toronto addressing this question: “Does science belong on my plate?” The quick answer is: “No, because Science isn’t a “thing” you can serve or eat.  Science is really a verb  - a process, a method, a conversation.” ...

Article - Steve Savage - May 8 2015 - 1:56pm

Photoshopped Photos On Dating Sites Have Mixed Results

Dating apps like Tinder offer a quick look at a potential connection, with a simple swipe to either decline or accept a potential match, so it follows that some people will try to game the system by using an old picture or one that is enhanced using a too ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2015 - 10:57pm

What Would Optimus Prime Do? 3 Important Leadership Lessons Transformers Taught 1980s Kids

According to a new paper, there is more than meets the eye when it comes to the impact of Saturday morning cartoons, in particular the popular 1980s cartoon series "The Transformers", and what it did to shape children's perceptions of what ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2015 - 11:27am

DINKs Share Housework Equally – And Then A Baby Arrives

As a tenured professor and mother of four young sons, I am constantly asked, “How do you do it?” What people mean is: “How can you have a full-time job and still manage child care and housework?” I usually respond, “High-quality husband and high-quality c ...

Article - The Conversation - May 10 2015 - 11:00am