Science & Society

Less Urbanization Linked To More More Social Cohesion, Less Crime

Though more urbanization has been linked by activists to better environment and various other social engineering desires, science has instead demonstrated the benefits of contact with nature for human well-being. Rather than criticizing rural life while l ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 3 2015 - 8:01am

Mobile Drift: Digital Deadwalking Is A Serious Issue For You, Not Me

When you see someone wandering all over the street because they are on the phone, it is irksome. When you have to reply to a text, not so much. At Science 2.0 we call this phenomenon "mobile drift" but the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeon ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2015 - 1:18pm

Dave Goulson’s Got Another Case Of The Butterflies

Dave Goulson’s latest anti-pesticide study is sure to thrill his activist backers. The University of Sussex biology professor has a new study concerning declining butterfly populations in the UK, which he claims “adds to the growing mountain of evidence th ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 3 2015 - 9:30am

Science Output: Putting The Public Back Into Publication

Earlier this year, I visited the library at the Australian National University with my son so he could borrow some books for an essay on Chinese history. Wandering past shelf after shelf, he asked me, “How does it feel to be writing another book that no-o ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 7 2015 - 8:50am

Only 29 Percent Of US Scientists See Science And Religion In Conflict

Though activists on the poles of science and religion see science and religion as being in conflict, most in science and most of the public do not. Instead, most recognize 'non-overlapping magisteria' and leave the philosophical subjects aside t ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2015 - 7:30am

Bagels And Smoked Meat: Jewish Cuisine Punching Above Its Paunch

The first mention of the bagel is in a 1610 text in a sumptuary law from the city of Krakow but in the late 19th century doughnut-shaped bread and smoked meat became popular in the New World thanks to successive waves of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Eur ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2015 - 12:43pm

R.I.P. Amir Aczel

As the son of a cruise ship captain, Dr. Amir Aczel spent his early life traveling, and that experienced informed how he spent all of his 65 years intellectually. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 9 2015 - 7:01am

Even After Thalidomide, Drug Scares Are Still Possible

The thalidomide tragedy, which resulted in thousands of deaths and disabilities in the late 1950s and early 1960s, changed medicine forever. One of its outcomes was the establishment of more robust mechanisms for the regulation of medicines and medical de ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 10 2015 - 12:01pm

Who's Hungry? Poor Children 3 Times As Likely To Be Obese

The developed world loves to put on food drives, places to donate canned goods to the needy. It is an easy feel-good thing to do. But it may be unnecessary, according to findings in  The European Journal of Public Health. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2015 - 8:33am

32% Of Americans Have STEM As A Top 3 Priority

37% percent of online adults say that health and medicine is among the topics they find most interesting,   while 32% identify science and technology in their top three, according to a   ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2015 - 11:38am