Science & Society

For Environmentalists, The Summer Before Elections Is The Battle Of The Bulge

Environmental groups in major cities all across America have sent their armies marching, a last, desperate attempt to ideologically plunder everything they can before the November election. They have good reason to gain as much ground as possible now. Whi ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 22 2016 - 9:11am

US Could Feed Twice As Many People- If Only Elites Eat Meat

Since the early 1900s, a subset of wealthy elites with a Malthusian mindset have been convinced that the world is overpopulated. Rather than let poor people starve, as British policy in the home of Malthus advocated, later generations sought to breed out ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2016 - 11:52pm

Additions to Chad Orzel’s article on physicists and philosophers

Chad Orzel wrote a column on his blog last week about James Blachowicz’s opinion piece in the New York Times  titled “There is no scientific methods”. The Times article talks about how methods in science and those in, say, the humanities, are similar and t ...

Blog Post - Venkatram Harish ... - Jul 23 2016 - 11:13am

Africa Could Do With A Dose Of Punctuality And Cleanliness

There are two features of life on the African continent that are fundamentally deadly to socioeconomic development. These are lack of cleanliness and punctuality. There is plenty of discussion on macro and micro economics and the big theories of economic d ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 1 2016 - 8:32am

Fact Or Hype: Brexit Will Hurt Science Funding

Though Britain has consistently been part of formal European trading, it was with some hesitation that they entered the European Union (EU) in 1993, and they famously balked at adopting the Euro currency in 1999. During that time, fears about giving a lot ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 10 2016 - 4:05pm

Spornosexual: Not Paying Enough Taxes Linked To Men Wanting To Become Famous

There is no question that in recent decades academics have veered sharply left, and none more so than the humanities fields- but linking government spending to male body image may have set a new standard. Whereas the academic left used to attack the right ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2016 - 5:58am

Swing Voters Win Elections, So Why Do Presidential Candidates Ignore Them?

In 2012, Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney was criticized for speaking an uncomfortable truth; 47 percent of voters are voting for the same party regardless of the actual policies. In academic science, the turnout will be huge for Democratic n ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2016 - 10:41am

Why 9/11 Terrorism Efforts Focused On Illegal Immigration

America had an illegal alien problem long before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, but with the border to Mexico so porous, homeland security quickly focused on heightening surveillance- and this racialized Latino immigrants, according to a soc ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 21 2016 - 8:28am

The Seasonal Spike In Divorce Filings

Associate sociology professor Julie Brines and doctoral candidate Brian Serafini claims there is quantitative evidence of a seasonal, biannual pattern of filings for divorce- determined by analyzing filings in Washington state between 2001 and 2015. Stati ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2016 - 6:03am

State Of Academic Freedom 2016

This is the reply after asking a scientist to endorse putting a draft of an article into a more fitting category on the arXiv, which is a mere preprint archive (not a journal or anything like that) where I already put almost 20 articles, and the endorsemen ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Aug 29 2016 - 11:32pm