Michael Grabell and ProPublica at Scientific American: U.S. Glossed Over...
Michael Grabell and ProPublica at Scientific American: U.S. Glossed Over Cancer Concerns Associated with Airport X-Ray Scanners: cabell: Because of a regulatory Catch-22, the airport X-ray scanners...
View Article"Bad teachers can really damage students and are very very difficult to fire....
“Bad teachers can really damage students and are very very difficult to fire. Bad CEOs could put a company under but are fairly easy to fire. Good teachers (working for maybe 20 years with 30 students...
View Article"Use of the BLS occupational wage data has a num- ber of drawbacks, however....
“Use of the BLS occupational wage data has a num- ber of drawbacks, however. First, the choice of occu- pations to compare with teaching is subjective. Even systematic methods of identifying comparable...
View Article"Shantell Curtis and her family were threatened with foreclosure months after...
“Shantell Curtis and her family were threatened with foreclosure months after they had sold their Vernal, Utah house. What’s more, the problem revolved around a single dollar, Connect2Utah.com reports...
View Article"A New England Journal of Medicine article from May 2009 reported geographic...
“A New England Journal of Medicine article from May 2009 reported geographic clusters of parents who choose not to vaccinate their children, including several areas where the rate of non-medical...
View Article"So, feminist bloggers don’t like being called names but then brand people...
“So, feminist bloggers don’t like being called names but then brand people they disagree with as rapists. Wow.” - Patrick Hayes, a journalist who writes for Huffington post, on his Twitter, regarding...
View ArticleFor almost a year now, one of the top hits if you search my name is a...
Someone posted my full name, contact information, where I live, along with graphic sexual comments about me on a forum where there are no moderators—and therefore, the post can’t be deleted—because I...
View Article"The crashing together of threats of violence with ridicule is striking,...
“The crashing together of threats of violence with ridicule is striking, because it exposes a fairly Orwellian streak to modern feminist campaigns to “stamp out” bad things. There is an attempt here to...
View ArticleMapping 'Poisoned Places' in Texas | StateImpact Texas
Mapping 'Poisoned Places' in Texas | StateImpact Texas
View Article"The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the...
“The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for young adults and saddled...
View Article"When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended a half-dozen...
“When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended a half-dozen years ago that preteen girls be vaccinated against human papillomavirus, two things happened. A lot of parents and some...
View Article"1. I’ve never seen one person of either sex threatened online. Ever. Try...
“1. I’ve never seen one person of either sex threatened online. Ever. Try choosing the forums you frequent more carefully. 2. Change your login name to a unisex one, or does that offend your right to...
View Article"Cervical cancer is why the vaccine originally got approved. But that’s not...
“Cervical cancer is why the vaccine originally got approved. But that’s not the whole story. HPV causes a half-dozen different kinds of cancer, and some are gender-neutral. Some of these malignancies...
View ArticleRick Perry Says U.S. Should Have Done More To Overthrow Iranian Government In...
Rick Perry Says U.S. Should Have Done More To Overthrow Iranian Government In 2009: “The Unites States needed to be actively involved in taking that oppressive regime out of control of Iran. We had an...
View Article"Perry also told Amanpour that he would overturn Obama’s decision to end the...
“Perry also told Amanpour that he would overturn Obama’s decision to end the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that allows gay men and women to be open about their sexuality, and he accused the...
View Article"In a new study released today by the American Association of University...
“In a new study released today by the American Association of University Women (AAUW), more than half of the nearly 2,000 middle and high school students surveyed reported being sexually harassed...
View ArticleHow Far Is Too Far When A Teacher Shares Personal Information With Their...
How Far Is Too Far When A Teacher Shares Personal Information With Their Students? | BlogHer: Outraged Mom is scandalized because her son’s teacher told her middle school students that she was a...
View Article"I don’t have student loans, because I never wanted to worry about paying...
“I don’t have student loans, because I never wanted to worry about paying them off. I was fortunate enough to pay for my undergrad with scholarships and a trust fund from my parents.” - Comment on...
View Article"Children with autism have many more brain cells than typically developing...
“Children with autism have many more brain cells than typically developing children, researchers have found, supporting previous research that suggests that autism may be caused by something going awry...
View Article"The survey of adolescents aged 12 to 17 years reveals that in total, 37...
“The survey of adolescents aged 12 to 17 years reveals that in total, 37 percent used alcohol or drugs in the past year, and 7.9 percent met criteria that would identify the teens as having a...
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