Even With Unlimited Student Loans, College Is Unaffordable
In the 1980s, universities lobbied Congress to make student loans unlimited, so everyone could get a college education and have higher earnings. Now, college is more unaffordable than ever.
Athletes Do Take Drugs – But Not As Much As The Rest Of Us
An Australian study found certain elite athletes were more at risk of taking drugs than others. Credit: Lee Morley, CC BY-NC-NDThere’s a widespread public perception that substance use is rife among Australian athletes. Whenever I tell people I research substance use among athletes, the most common response is: “They’re all on it.”
War On Doping And The Hypocritical Treatment Of Lance Armstrong
No doubt Lance Armstrong is still digesting the news that he has to repay $10 million (£6.4m) to previous sponsors following a ruling by an arbitration panel a few weeks ago. This is on top of the lifetime ban from all sporting competitions that he was given several years back.
How Marijuana Use Affects People With Bipolar Disorder
Rates of substance use are higher in people with mental health problems compared to the general population and particularly in people with bipolar disorder, with cannabis the street drug most frequently used.
New Family Of Moth Is Enigmatic Evolutionary Wonder
Male enigma moth, a new species discovered on Kangaroo Island. George Gibbs, Author providedThe discovery of a new family of moth is one of the most exciting finds in entomology in the past 40 years. It was found not in some remote and unexplored region of Australia, but right in our backyard on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. The island that is only 100 kilometers from Adelaide and 13
kilometers
from the mainland, that has been settled since 1836 and is one of the loveliest destinations for a holiday.
Vain, Deluded, Indecisive, Biased: The "Average" Australian Consumer, According To Statistics
The "average" Australian according to statistics is a 37 year-old woman with two kids, a mortgage and three bedroom house. But how "typical" are her consumer choices? Image from ShutterstockWho is the “typical” or “average” consumer? Is there such a thing? What do they look like? How do they make decisions? Am I an average (or perhaps a below average) consumer?
The First Big Challenge For A New Scientist Is Finding A Job
The typical biography of a scientist might look something like this:At a young age, a boy or girl discovers a love for science. Their dream is to become perhaps a geologist, a chemist, or a marine biologist.
Stage, Not Age - Knowing Your Child's Reading Ability And How To Help Them
A child's reading progression isn't based on age, so you need to know what stage your child is up to in order to help them. Image credit: ShutterstockLearning to read is a complicated process and parents often wonder if their child is developing reading abilities at the rate they “should”. Research agrees, however, that reading (and writing) is very much a developmental process, which can look very different for different children, regardless of their age.
Why Are Earth And The Moon So Different? It May Be The Iron Rain
The Z machine generates electric currents of up to 20 million amps, to shoot aluminium projectiles at iron targets, replicating the impacts of early asteroids. CC BY
Women With Endometriosis Need More Support, Less Judgment
Known for years as the “career woman’s disease” based on the idea that women without children develop disease in their reproductive organs, endometriosis is a painful condition thought to affect one in ten women worldwide.
Fixing Outdated Guidelines For Human Vaccine Trials
A volunteer receives a trial Ebola vaccine at the Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine in Oxford, southern England January 16, 2015. Eddie Keogh/ReutersRecently, Phase II and III trials of two vaccines for Ebola started in West Africa. The development of possible vaccines is welcome news. Like most vaccine trials, the current Ebola trials are being conducted under ethical guidelines derived from US standards for clinical research in human beings.
The Diversity Challenge Facing Universities
Academia could take some lessons from Silicon Valley about diversity. Credit: WikimediaLast week, MIT released a report that closely examines the state of diversity within the university.The report considers MIT’s diversity not just in terms of students and faculty, but also looks at the Institute’s non-faculty research staff who represent approximately 28% of the institution as a whole.
