American popular science magazine
Andrew Follett writes for National Review Online about some academics’ fears about the presidential election’s outcome. Woke academics funneling scientific funding toward political activism are terrified President-elect Donald Trump is…
Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon details a disturbing study into the links between divorce and children’s educational attainment. The children of divorced parents acquire fewer undergraduate and…
Former CJ associate editor Paul Chesser notes the trend in coverage of the debate over rising sea levels at the N.C. coast: At the top of nearly every news report…
Recent John Locke Foundation Headliner Timothy P. Carney wonders why liberal defenders of federal light-bulb restrictions refuse to engage in honest debate. He tackles the topic in a Washington Examiner…
Maybe it never existed at all. Pat Michaels writes here about a Scientific American poll finding that there is a great deal of skepticism over the “crisis” claims and that…
Lord Monckton answers the charges against climate skeptics in Scientific American magazine here. In December 2009, Scientific American, once a respected popular-science journal and now a pulp science-fiction picture comic,…
I found this Scientific American article fascinating. Perhaps you will, too. It deals with one of the vexing problems of modern science: why do certain personality traits that manifest themselves…
The progressive press continues to blame the US’ inferiority to third world economies on liberty; and many blame the economic downturn on deregulation. Scientific American blames what they are calling…
Professor Jeffrey Sachs. And in the other corner, counseling us against the welfare state, Professor F.A. Hayek. Today’s Wall Street Journal has a marvelous article by William Easterly (who has…
Scientific American did a great job in June summarizing the debate on obesity and health (via Paul Campos). Some worthwhile quotes: “By the same criteria we are blaming obesity for…
Naturally, I don’t care, but it’s a good way of introducing a splendid article from Scientific American entitled “Exploding the Self-Esteem Myth” available here. The authors’ conclusion: “We have found…
On December 17, Roy Cordato alerted us to a lecture presented by noted science fiction writer Michael Crichton on the fantasy world the environmental movement lives in. That speech was…