I often joke that New York City residents seem to regard any place beyond the Hudson River as some sort of post-apocalyptic wasteland where dark-eyed cannibals rule a savage environment until you reach San Francisco.It's why they don't mind dumping all their sewage there. It makes a nice barrier.But the latest bout of sewage was not intentional. And it impacted the first annual...
read moreAmong misguided positions, radiation and pesticides are only slightly behind vaccinations and genetic optimization on the anti-science hippie scale. A 2011 analysis of the GSS showed that, along with harmless positions like that astrology is scientific, there was a big difference between the left and the right on knowledge of science issues like "Exposure to radioactivity doesn't...
read moreThe Olympics can never be green, given that countries spend $14 billion tearing down and building stuff and then people fly and drive in from all over the place to watch. But they can at least be relatively green. As Melissa C. Lott at Scientific American Blogs notes, the Brits did it right; the event was built with sustainability as part of the planning. From recycling to energy...
read moreLike many, science journalist Carl Zimmer has become concerned about the ability of science to correct itself; at least on a culturally acceptable timescale brought about by instant media publication of studies.Arsenic life is one example, though clearly the system worked. While the article got published it was criticized quite rapidly and bloggers have caught stealth Creationist papers...
read moreThis paper seeks to address hypermasculinity and the settled heteronormative value system embodied in public-policy actors, primarily the White-centered hegemonic masculinity that has created negative performative aspects of cultural identity constructions in this multicultural and globalized era. read...
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