The humanities are considered the least discriminatory academic discipline - known cases of discrimination do not reach statistical significance - but women and minorities are still collectively…

To modern cultural sensibilities, "Victorian" means 'repressed' because it seemed overly formal to people that want to wear flip-flops into the office, yet they clearly got some things right.(1) The…

Having once lived in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, on occasion I would drive to those old gigantic relics of steel mills. They were behemoths and so were the buildings that housed them. They…

The knock on ACSH comes primarily from partisan groups like Mother Jones. A disgruntled employee who thought he should run the company quit and took their donor list and Mother Jones crafted a…

In December 2011, when the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Texas Rangers signed away their local television rights for about $3 billion apiece, the sport media heralded a new record for local…

Rolling Stone’s retraction of an incendiary article about an alleged gang rape on the campus of the University of Virginia certainly deserves a place in the pantheon of legendary journalism screw-ups…

Science is considered a source of truth and the importance of its role in shaping modern society cannot be overstated. But in recent years science has entered a crisis of trust. The results of many…

Japan is famous for committing suicide - as many people kill themselves using rope as Americans, with a much larger population, do with guns - but they may have more accurate numbers than western…

A new study notes that many breastfeeding mothers in the Philippines want more sex right after giving birth than they did before they became pregnant. The Philippines culture has a low divorce rate…

Though girls at a young age enjoy Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), by the time they graduate from college their interests have changed. Women still prefer the life sciences and…