Science & Society

Most Gun Owners Will Buy Personalized 'Smart Guns'- Once They Actually Work

In a new survey, 80 percent of gun owners support the concept of personalized guns, referred to as "smart" guns because they include safety features like fingerprint locks to help prevent use by unauthorized individuals. But only 18 percent are ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2019 - 10:18am

Would You Pay 47% More To Eliminate Child Labor From Your Cocoa?

No one is for child labor but people are unfailingly for lower prices rather than higher. That is why the organic industry is a tiny fraction of the overall food market. With no benefit other than paeans to health halos or holistic beliefs about urban peop ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 11 2019 - 10:43am

Half Face Daddy Shaming But It Gets A Lot Less Attention Than Mommy Shaming: Happy Father's Day

Women will more often rush to the defense of mothers who give their kids formula, stick to the vaccine schedule, or who let their pre-schoolers play in the yard without a wall to protect them from predators they read about one time on the Internet. Women d ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 12 2019 - 11:34am

I Was On A Swiss Public Eye Panel Devoted To Hating Science: Here's Why You Should Be Also

Before heading to a work-vacation in Europe I got an email asking if I might be willing to be a last second replacement on a panel at a film festival called Festival du Film et Forum International sur les Droits Humains (International Film Festival and Fo ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 18 2019 - 9:43am

Understanding The Voynich Manuscript #1

Understanding the Voynich Manuscript #1 Tom, Dick and Harry explain a statistical method. The mysterious Voynich Manuscript. A simple analysis of a sufficiently large text can reveal much about the topic of that text, if the language is known. If the text ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 23 2019 - 2:25pm

Seniors Swipe: Baby Boomers Love Dating Apps And Cosmetic Surgery

New statistics released by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reveals that 50,000 more Americans age 55 and older got cosmetic procedures in 2018 than the previous year. Aging gracefully is not in the cards for senior citizens with the means to chang ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2019 - 7:57am

Aborted US Strike On Iran ZERO Personal Risk For Most People- Even For Sailors Working On Tankers- NOT A Risk Of World War 3

Another post to help people scared of the Iran- US situation. For most people the personal risk is zero. Short summary: Trump seems to have ordered a strike on selected Iranian facilities- and then backed down at the last minute after attempting a diploma ...

Article - Robert Walker - Aug 3 2019 - 2:25am

Understanding the Voynich Manuscript #2

Understanding the Voynich Manuscript #2 An i for an i? Not nymphs: women! There are strings of what look like letters i and c in the Voynich Manuscript. If they are in reality i and c then they do not make sense. If we take it as a given that the writer o ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 27 2019 - 8:22pm

We've Won The War On Smoking, Obesity Will Soon Be The Top Lifestyle Killer

Though Europe and Asia still smoke far more cigarettes than intelligent people should, and therefore cancer rates due to that will stay high for another 20 years or more, the clear trend in lifestyle diseases is obesity-related ones. That is actually a win ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 3 2019 - 12:56pm

Forget Finding A Pro-Science Documentary On Netflix

You'll be able to the agriculture documentary called "Food Evolution" on Hulu soon enough but for obvious reasons the filmmakers went to Netflix first. Though the streaming service has thrown $20 billion at everything, they had no interest ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 9 2019 - 11:15am