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The Latest Effort to Smear Evolution By Natural Selection
As a biographical sketch, Darwin: Portrait of a Genius is brisk and sufficient. But as an exploration of Darwin’s...
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Social Media and Social Good
Social media was a major force behind last year’s Arab Spring, after communities organized and overthrew tyrannical dictators, as...
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Does Record Number of Religious ‘Nones’ Mean Decline of Religiosity?
“ ‘Nones’ On the Rise,” released by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in affiliation with PBS’...
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Megacities Pose Serious Health Challenge
Rapid urbanization will take a heavy toll on public health if city planning and development do not incorporate measures...
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Education Reform Is Impossible Without Addressing Racism
From Michaela Pommells at Huffington Post: Let’s face it, race inequity may not be a deliberate goal of education...
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Inspiring Eureka: Rethinking Math and Science Education
The United States ranks just 31st globally in student achievement in math. Annually, fewer than 60,000 American college graduates...
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How Science Explains America’s Great Moral Divide
Researcher Jonathan Haidt delves into the psychology of red-state, blue-state, and offers hope for reconciliation
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Scientists Not Immune From Gender Bias
Hypothesis: Scientists have a superior ability to root out gender bias in their labs because they are trained to...
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Climate Change, the New National Security Issue
Mitt Romney’s remarks on NBC’s Meet the Press in early September rankled environmental activists hoping for a bipartisan approach...
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‘Social Voting’ Really Does Rock the Vote
Brace yourself for a tidal wave of Facebook campaigning before November’s U.S. presidential election. A study of 61 million...