While the new DSM-5 has attracted plenty of criticism - and the National Institute of Mental Health has given up on it, saying "patients with mental disorders deserve better" - not everyone is critical.
read moreIf you live in California, you can never get too amazed by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. If there is a progressive position that an activist court can take, they usually take it.If you can't go to a national chain store and get your eyes checked and buy glasses, the 9th is why - they ruled that is medical care and health care is not interstate in America. Sure, we can mandate health care and...
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Politics leads to sometimes dizzying decisions, on battlefields and in boardrooms. The Maloof family, majority owners of the NBA Sacramento Kings, are in final negotiations to sell the team to California investors after being denied permission to sell the team to Seattle investors, who would move it. The same Seattle that lost its team the exact same way. Meanwhile, plans for a...
read moreStudents of sociology professor Dr. Leszek Sibilski at University of Maryland made a video asking for action on climate change. They regard climate change as a social problem - most in science would regard it as a physics one but certainly taking action is a political, and therefore social, issue.
read moreIf you are a particle physicist, and not French, your career at Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire - CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research and the world's largest physics laboratory - may be rather limited, it seems. read...
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