When I was a youngster, I typed on a 1950s portable typewriter.  I was not a hipster, I was poor. But I loved to write. When I got older our school had a computer lab but typing out…

America is producing more Ph.D.s than ever but federal funding for academic grants cannot keep pace with the expansion in university halls, bolstered by well-financed Science, Technology, Engineering…

The following table shows differences in responses to the science module of items deployed by the GSS during 2004 and 2006* by partisan identification. Some of the questions are inverted for viewer…

An influential psychological theory, borne out in hundreds of experiments, may have been debunked, writes Daniel Engber, and then "how can so many scientists have been so wrong?" It sounds like a…

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/11/lies-dirty-tricks-and-45-million-k... This past election, California voters shot down an initiative to put labels on GMO foods, which adds to a puzzle about…

A few years ago, a study by the British Cheese Board queried 200 volunteers on whether or not they had nightmares after eating cheese prior to bedtime. Nary a one did.  Why would they ask such a…

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http://www.sciencecodex.com/node/68900/edit?destination=admin%2Fcontent%... http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1767/20131193.short?r... It's election season and that means you will…

It's the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson's polemic, "Silent Spring", which means there will be no end to her 'impact'. Impact, of course, can be good or bad.  Carson is considered the…

Americans love tradition and there is no greater tradition than the idea that if you can't be fired, you will do better work. Okay, that is actually the antithesis of America, but in the late 1700s…