Science & Society

New Shakespeare Portrait Controversy Misses The Big Picture

Historian Mark Griffiths claims to have cracked a code in an Elizabethan book on botany to discover a true portrait of Shakespeare made within the bard’s own lifetime. The find has been hailed as “the literary discovery of the century” by the editor of Co ...

Article - The Conversation - May 21 2015 - 3:30pm

The 3 Biggest Obstacles To Higher Company Productivity

239 representatives from Finnish small and medium-sized businesses responded to new survey  by the Lappeenranta University of Technology about external and internal obstacles for productivity improvement experienced by companies. The results of the survey ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2015 - 11:12am

Many Women Buy Products Because Models Are Thin, But There's A Market For Normal

Fashion is a huge industry and they use thin models because creating an ideal- the belief that women will look like that if they buy the clothes- is a time-honored strategy. Yet as more American women become overweight and obese, and it becomes more diffi ...

Article - News Staff - May 22 2015 - 1:11pm

Illegal Immigration To The U.S. Caused By Globalization?

Many illegal aliens from Latin America risk migrating to the United States because they are fleeing from desperate situations and see opportunities to help their families, even though they will be stuck low-paying, labor-intensive jobs. ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2015 - 8:49am

Canada Lags Far Behind Other Countries In New Medicines

If you want cheap medicine, Canadian taxpayers make it possible to get a great deal, but when it comes to new medicines, Canada is behind similar countries, according to a new report which ranks it 16th out of 18 comparable OECD countries.  Only 23% of 141 ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2015 - 3:27pm

Risk Management Turned Upside Down

A true story. To protect the innocent – and the writer – I’ll use no names. The president of a large, multi-national engineering and construction firm decided to attract more contracts by reducing customers’ risks. A sound decision, yes?  It was what he d ...

Article - Fred Phillips - May 23 2015 - 12:42pm

Predicting Congressional Voting- Social Identification Trumps Party

In America, where there is a two-party system, there are numerous opportunities to compromise or cross party lines politically, so looking at where someone falls on a conservative-liberal graph lines doesn't tell us much about how they will vote. Demo ...

Article - News Staff - May 26 2015 - 9:36am

Wealthy Elites Will Soon Get GMO-Free Similac

Abbott Laboratories, the $40 billion conglomerate involved in pharmaceuticals, medical devices and supplements such as Similac and Ensure, has stated they will create a GMO-free version of Similac for parents who worry about GMOs inside their kids. They ci ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 26 2015 - 4:48pm

Young Female Journalists Twice As Likely To Be Bullied As Men

Female journalists in Norway between the ages of 25 and 35 are twice as likely to be bullied and threatened as male colleagues of the same age, and nearly half of all Norwegian journalists and editors have experienced bullying during the past five years. 2 ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2015 - 10:34am

"Boys With Toys"- Was It Sexist?

I was initially rather excited to see that one of my friends and collaborators, Professor Shri Kulkarni from Caltech, had his picture littering my Facebook feed recently. Unfortunately for Shri, it was because in an interview with National Public Radio he ...

Article - The Conversation - May 27 2015 - 10:04pm