Psychiatric Diagnoses Not Valid For African-Americans, Says Sociologist
Depression is different for African-Americans than Caucasian-Americans or Latin-Americans, and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V), the primary source of diagnostic...
View Article9,000 Years: Origin Of Farmed Rice Gets Pushed Back
Rice farming is a far older practice than we knew. The oldest evidence of domesticated rice in China has now been pushed back to 9,000 years ago, thanks to a team of archaeologists.read more
View ArticleHow Republicans And Democrats View Foreigners Since Bin Laden's Death
At the 2012 Democratic convention, when President Obama mentioned that his administration had killed the terrorist Osama Bin Laden, the building erupted in cheers. This was positively un-Democratic, to...
View ArticleEco-Theology Makes A Comeback
In the modern schism between religion and science promoted by militants, it may not seem like theology is a friend to ecology. But, like in all other areas of science, that is just modern spin created...
View ArticleReligion Steers Adolescents Away From Porn
A new paper in the Journal of Adolescence finds that adolescents attending religious services has a positive affect on reducing pornography viewing.read more
View ArticleReconstruction Of 12,000 Year Old Funeral Feast Brings Ancient Burial Rituals...
The woman was laid on a bed of specially selected materials, including gazelle horn cores, fragments of chalk, fresh clay, limestone blocks and sediment. Tortoise shells were placed under and around...
View ArticleHow To Get Moral Free-Riders To Cooperate: Make Everyone Pre-Pay
Moral judgments, ideas about good or bad, remain the building block of cooperation in a large group. A rule of thumb for promoting cooperation is to help those who have a good reputation and not those...
View ArticleGoogle, FB AI... How Many Good Guys with Guns to Stop A Bad Guy with AR-15?
A single man armed with an assault rifle felled eleven well-armed, well-trained police officers in Dallas this past Thursday, 7 July 2016, five of them fatally. Dozens of policemen and policewomen were...
View ArticleWhy Republicans And Democrats Are Self-Segregating
San Francisco people won't be happy until Dallas is just like them - but they insist they need to force that change in the name of tolerance and diversity. Of course, there is nothing about tolerance...
View ArticlePsychologist Uses Surveys About Social Media And Safety Nets To Declare...
Academic social psychologists, who are over 99 percent liberal, can be reliably counted on to create surveys to affirm that liberals are more intelligent, less fearful of change, likely to have...
View ArticleTo Stop E-cigarette Use In Teens, You Need To Stop Rebellion In Teens
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recently become concerned about e-cigarette use yet scarcely mention that cigarette uptake has plummeted. Cigarettes are the killer, not...
View ArticleGay Youth In Massachusetts Have Higher Rates Of Eating Disorders
Gay youths are more likely to purge or take laxatives, use diet pills, or fast to lose weight than their straight peers, according to new research from the University of British Columbia which analyzed...
View ArticleAre Think Tanks More Credible To Government Employees? Not Really
Think tanks are designed to help policy makers shape decisions by giving them evidence-based information in an apolitical format. Who doesn't claim to be doing that? Though Sierra Club and...
View Article60 Minutes: No Broadcasting Standards, No Investigation
Last week, a small group of people held a protest outside Channel Nine in Sydney. They were objecting to the network’s treatment of Adam Whittington, the Australian man whose company “recovered” Sally...
View ArticleOsteopathic Manipulation: A Possible Treatment For A Subjective Condition
Osteopaths have made their way into various aspects of medicine, primarily because they are still willing to be GPs at a time when MDs are running from government bureaucracy and paperwork, but their...
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Top Scientists Chastise Greenpeace
The Nobel Prize was established upon the death of scientist and inventor, Alfred Nobelread more
View ArticleThe Editors Music Makes Beer Taste Better
Music can influence how much you like the taste of beer, according to a study published in Frontiers in Psychology.Their findings suggest that a range of multisensory information, such as sound,...
View ArticleIn France, There Is STEM Bias Too - Against Men
French men love French women. So much so that given two equal candidates for a job, one male and one female, they are likely to score a female higher when it comes to being a science educator. Claims...
View ArticleJust The Availability Of Meat Causes Obesity, Say Anthropologists
Should we be warning consumers about over-consumption of meat as well as sugar?That's the question being raised by a team of researchers from the University of Adelaide, who say meat in the modern diet...
View ArticleWho Was The First Chef?
Archaeological sites speak about the everyday lives of people in other times. Yet knowing how to interpret this reality does not tend to be straightforward. We know that Palaeolithic societies lived on...
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