The American Diabetes Association has just published a peer-reviewed article?stating that in the first six months of 2013 and 2014, an additional 400,000 patients were diagnosed with diabetes within the states where Medicaid was expanded...
Security concerns over drones is at an all-time high, especially after the Secret Service discovered a crashed drone on the White House front lawn last month. Not only do drones pose a potential threat to...
The Creationists say that the Earth is only 6,000-years-old because the Bible tells them so. But, does it really say that? Dating the Earth isn't even in the Bible at all. So, where do they get...
A new series of bills passing in various states around the country are calling for "academic freedom," which sounds good and all. However, these bills are being used to teach that creationism and evolution are...
Ruth Jim, a member of the Yakama Nation's tribal council.
There has been controversy surrounding an 8,500 year old ancient skeleton that some?Native American tribes have been calling their own. The skeleton was found in Kennewick, Washington at Columbia Park by?Will Thomas and David Deacy?in...
Danny Healy-Rae
A politician in Ireland is making global news for being spectacularly stupid. According to the Irish newspaper the Independent, a legislator named Danny Healy-Rae has been publicly pronouncing his decidedly unscientific claim that climate change isn’t...
Did you know that a Black woman named Katherine Johnson calculated the paths of NASA's rocket ships using a slide rule and a pencil? We all need to know about Katherine Johnson. Fortunately, a book...
Bill Nye the Science Guy is usually right. In my reading of various news sources,this article popped up. Bill Nye is usually right when it comes to science issues, and he is spot on when it...
Liberal Redneck
We have had a monument to ignorance pop up in, "The South." Young-Earth Creationist and nutjob Ken Ham erected a $100 million "replica" of Noah's Ark from the Bible story. There were groups of atheists protesting...
The death penalty has always been a source of great debate in America, and that debate is about get more intense. According to CNN, Arkansas plans to execute eight men over the course of 10...
A foolish statement in 2005 by former Treasury Security and Harvard University President Lawrence Summers garnered much attention. Lawrence actually suggested that genetic differences may explain why there are fewer girls pursuing careers in science. At...
In a ruling that is a victory for everyone who suffers from a genetic predisposition to disease, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled today that human genes cannot be patented. The case that...
I don't consider myself a particularly squeamish person. I'm a mom, after all. Not much I haven't seen! But as a teenage nurse's aide another lifetime ago, I passed out while watching a breast tumor...
laziness
We’ve all heard that old saying, “the early bird gets the worm.” But is this still true with so many studies showing otherwise? In fact, science continues to prove that humans are more productive later...
Norma McCorvey died of heart failure today in Katy, Texas. She was 69. Her grave will undoubtedly be marked with that humble, unassuming name – Norma. Generations from now, women will walk past her without...
Sunday was Charles Darwin's 208th birthday, also known as Darwin Day. Here are some facts about the evolution debate, about evolution, and about Darwin himself: 1. He Waited 20 Years To Publish His Theory Charles Darwin waited around...
Here is something you will not hear in the American mainstream media: "The chance of 'catastrophic' climate change completely wiping out humanity by 2100 is now 1-in-20." That is a headline from the British Daily Mail, reporting a recent...
On December 13, 2016, the Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down a state law that set stringent requirements for the places where abortions are performed. In addition to following the United States Supreme Court's ruling that invalidated a...
A recent study from Washington University St. Louis has found a surprising connection between children's tax bracket and their brain development. The researchers analyzed over 100 MRI brain scans of children aged 7-12 of various income levels....
A new study has shown a novel idea: Religion is an instinct, and people who rise above those instincts are more intelligent. Study lead author Edward Dutton, a research fellow at the Ulster Institute for...