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CDC: Autism Jumped 30 Percent Since 2012 - What It Really Means

CDC: Autism Jumped 30 Percent Since 2012 - What It Really Means

America has seen a 30 percent rise in autism since the last estimate in 2012, according to the Centers for Disease Control. That's a big jump, an epidemic even. Mainstream media is going to have a…
Video Gaming Doesn't Replace Player Social Lives, It Expands Them

Video Gaming Doesn't Replace Player Social Lives, It Expands Them

There is a belief that online social behavior related to video gaming replaces real life but scholars found that is not so; instead of making the social circle smaller, it expands the social lives of…
Generation X Versus Baby Boomers: Who's In Worse Health?

Generation X Versus Baby Boomers: Who's In Worse Health?

Generations are generally useless, aside from marketing plans. The Baby Boom happened in 1946, after soldiers returned home from war (the occupying soldiers came from a different, supplemental draft…
Thoughts About Norm Borlaug On : The 100th Birthday Of "The Man Who Fed The World"

Thoughts About Norm Borlaug On : The 100th Birthday Of "The Man Who Fed The World"

Norman Borlaug would have been 100 years old today. He has been called "The Man Who Fed The World," and "The Father of The Green Revolution." Norm Borlaug was the first plant pathologist to be…
Good Or Bad For Obamacare? 42 Percent Of Americans Are Clueless About Health Insurance

Good Or Bad For Obamacare? 42 Percent Of Americans Are Clueless About Health Insurance

Can you explain what a deductible is? If you can, you are in the majority - but not by much. Instead, survey results have found that the people most likely to benefit from the Affordable Care Act,…
Massachusetts Health Care Reform Led To Increased ER Use

Massachusetts Health Care Reform Led To Increased ER Use

As the expansion of health care coverage becomes mandatory nationwide, people are looking to Massachusetts, which had already expanded health insurance coverage to nearly everyone in the state,…
Doctors Are Too Quick To Prescribe Antidepressants

Doctors Are Too Quick To Prescribe Antidepressants

A study of 235 bereaved parents participating in an online support community revealed that startling 37.4 percent of them were prescribed a psychiatric medication to help them cope with the loss…
Where Women Don't Belong: 2 Strategies You And I Both Use To Keep Women Out Of Science

Where Women Don't Belong: 2 Strategies You And I Both Use To Keep Women Out Of Science

If you'd stop believing the myth that women are too slow out of the gate when they are supposed to add numbers, and if you start believing the fact that men are too fast, we might…
Study: Media Can Foster, Reduce Conspiracy Beliefs

Study: Media Can Foster, Reduce Conspiracy Beliefs

Exposure to media that promotes conspiracy theories may increase belief in them, but exposure to debunking information can decrease that belief, a new study has found. The report, published in the…
Is "Cosmos" Suffering From Unrealistic Expectations?

Is "Cosmos" Suffering From Unrealistic Expectations?

In Five Things Neil deGrasseTyson’s “Cosmos” Gets Wrong at The Federalist and Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey -The Review on Science 2.0, I gave the creators a bit of a pass…

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