Science & Society

How Men Are Fixing The Workplace Equality Gap

It is still true that far more men than women have leading roles in many organizations. If you ask women to explain this, as many researchers have, they point to workplace culture as a prime culprit. ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 25 2016 - 7:00am

Debunking: A President Of The US Could Order A Nuclear Attack At A Moments Notice On A Whim

Summary: Legally the president makes the decision and everyone else then scurries around and follows his or her orders; in practice it's not going to be that simple in peace time especially. He or she doesn’t just have a button to press and the weapo ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 1 2017 - 10:39am

2016 Presidential Elections- Math Behind The Mess

In a world where individuals have ranked preferences, it is not possible to create a voting procedure that is guaranteed to yield a fair selection between more than two alternatives. This is a mathematical certainty: in 1951 Nobel laureate Kenneth Arrow ga ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Nov 6 2016 - 5:01pm

Why Big Business Couldn’t Stop Trump

If corporate money controls our politics, as Bernie Sanders and others have claimed, then how did the Republican Party – the reputed party of business – manage to nominate a candidate whom almost no one in Big Business supports? And why have so many been ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2016 - 9:44am

Environmentalists Have Gone To Their Bunkers Over Trump

Environmentalists almost certainly cost Secretary Hillary Clinton the election and now they want to act as a violent alternative to President-elect Trump. President Obama had consistently sided with environmentalists over jobs- an example was the Keystone ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 9 2016 - 4:08pm

Mark Bittman Can't Succeed In Food, So He'll Teach It

Mark Bittman, cookbook guru and former New York Times columnist for those who self-identify as being the latest nutritional trend followers, has had success telling other people how to run their business- but was a giant flop when he actually had to implem ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 16 2016 - 6:04am

HOPE Or Wishful Thinking When It Comes To Probation

In the criminal justice community, the community supervision approach known as Honest Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) has generated widespread enthusiasm when it comes to substance use, violations, new arrests, and revocations to prison, but ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 15 2016 - 9:52pm

Democrat Postmortem: They Had Merely Become What They Had Hated All Along Part 1

When a tree dies, or when we run across decaying wood in a forest, our first reaction is to think we should remove it. However, the ecology of the forest is such that saproxylic organisms, including fungi and insects, depend on the dead wood that naturall ...

Article - Alex Durig - Dec 20 2016 - 12:39pm

Thanksgiving Pie Report: One Pumpkin To Rule Them All

According to a Delta Dental survey out today, American adults overwhelmingly want a little pumpkin at Thanksgiving, it has 36 percent favorability, more than double that of American's next favorite Thanksgiving pie, pecan, which ekes out only 15 perce ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 23 2016 - 12:40pm

Great Scott! Climate Change Deniers Accept Models!

Great Scott! Climate Change Deniers Accept Models! A recent study of old log books, coupled with the use of computer modelling of ice estimates show that the summer sea ice edge then was further from the land in the Weddell sea but that ice conditions were ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Nov 23 2016 - 9:46pm