Media and Entertainment
A leading child expert is warning parents to limit the amount of television children watch before the age of two, after an extensive review published in the January issue of Acta Paediatrica showed that it can do more harm than good to their ongoing development.
Automated text processing gone bad.
Hallmark has announced a recall of its jumbo snowman snow globes due to the possibility of fire.
If only the designer had read the same newspaper article as a young lady who was working on a report for the laser teaching center at SUNY Stony Brook.
Were those of us who believed an Obama administration would be more friendly to science right?
An independent review investigating the effectiveness of a publicly funded graphic anti-methamphetamine advertising campaign has found that the campaign has been associated with many negative outcomes.
New research shows why direct exposure to repeated ads initially increases a consumer’s preference for promoted products, and why the most effective advertisements are the ones consumers don’t even realize they have seen.
I'm coming up for air during my hiatus with a request to Science Blog readers.
I want to use the quote below from Jacques Yves Cousteau as a featured quotation in a chapter on undersea exploration in a children's book I'm writing. It's all over the Internet, but no one cites the place it first appeared.
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Can anyone here help? If so, you can post it here or find an e-mail link at my website.
Thanks all,
Fred Bortz
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A ban on fast food advertisements in the United States could reduce the number of overweight children by as much as 18 percent, according to a new study being published this month in the Journal of Law and Economics. The study also reports that eliminating the tax deductibility associated with television advertising would result in a reduction of childhood obesity, though in smaller numbers.
Palin takes on basic science research as an example of government waste.
Join the Science Blog crew this Friday, October 24 at noon in Los Angeles to discuss Obama, McCain and the sciences, courtesy of Farmlab.
A team of researchers at Michigan Technological University is harnessing the computing muscle behind the leading video games to understand the most intricate of real-life systems.
When a baseball team loses, the manager is often fired. But does the manager have any real impact on whether the team wins or loses?
In this post, I present some new data to determine whether and when the manager's choices about the lineup affect the team's chances of winning.
This is the full 800-word version of a comparative book review that appeared in shorter form on the Sunday Pittsburgh Post-Gazette books page. The two books, Anticancer: A New Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D. and Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst, M.D., may literally save lives.
