Science & Society

Scholars have additional evidence that among U.S. adults some recent cigarette quitters may have done so with the assistance of electronic cigarettes. The research informs the ongoing debate as to…

A recent paper examined the changing nature of family living situations. University of Melbourne Associate Professor Cassandra Szoeke and Katherine Burn, from the University's Faculty of Medicine,…

Sixty percent of Australians have been the target of online harassment and abuse, with women and young adults most likely to report being sexually harassed online. One in 10 adults said someone had…

On Twitter #BlackOnCampus is a collection anecdotes of racial aggression and microaggression.  What does science say? What is the context for these tweets?  I am only one person and can…

If you remodel your kitchen or put in a custom library, chances are that money is lost; when buyers look at the comparable sales for homes in the area, they want to pay based on similar square…

Though 97 percent of climate experts believe in climate change, the public remains less convinced, including teens, who are most likely to believe what they are told and so are heavily marketed…

“Here’s my bet: the kids are going to win and when they do, it’s going to matter,” prophesized environmentalist Bill McKibben about fossil fuel divestment in 2013. If so, they are going to be led by…

Cultural pressures to avoid anything controversial and the need to show a positive result to get the next grant have led scientists to avoid risk-taking and choose inefficient research strategies,…

Do you believe that biology is a hoax perpetuated by greedy scientists who are catering to a world view in order to keep their funding rolling in? Statistically you are not a Young Earth Creationist…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/michael-gerson-the-strange-tensio... Obviously this is a chance for militant atheists - invariably progressive in all ways but tolerance of people outside their…