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"Given the heat," said Miller, "people smelled, of course, but some smelled a lot worse than others."

The author scopes the economic rise of the East.

The author talks about reframing how we see ourselves vis-à-vis the globe.

Google's "Year in Search 2020" results reveal a year when "why" was searched more than ever.

In this 1915 map, Lady Liberty shines her light in the West on women in the East, still in electoral darkness

Gun safety laws have a historical precedent in the 1939 court case U.S. v Miller.

America isn't immune to attempts to remove books from libraries and schools, here are ten frequent targets and why you ought to go check them out.

America's greatest international impact since World War 2 has been through its diplomacy, not its wars.

Is there a connection between mental health and gun violence? Here's what the experts think and the stats show.

What explains our propensity to blame the victim, even in cases of sexual assault and rape? A true story of sexual crime in America reveals some key misunderstandings we may all hold. 

The winner of the Royal Statistical Society’s first “International Statistic of the Year” award provides a shocking insight into the real threats Americans face.

Their thoughts were more complex than either side of the gun control / gun rights issue acknowledges.

The real barrier to getting more women into leadership roles is the issue of time commitment. Companies that embrace values diversity and accommodate various time commitments will open doors to leadership for previously shut-out members of the available talent pool.

America's most meritocratic institutions—schools, universities, and the workplace—are becoming places where inheritance thrives rather than individuals with talent.

Why aren't more women attaining senior leadership positions across corporate America? In this lesson excerpt, Jody Greenstone Miller explains why the time commitment traditionally required to attain top level positions prevents many women (and some men) from bringing their talents to the workforce. The full clip, available on Big Think+, teaches you how to create new paths to leadership by rethinking time so that the faces and values at the top of your organization more accurately reflect the diversity of the available talent pool.

This looks like a pretty standard map of a bit of Denmark. In fact, it is no such thing.   For there isn’t really a town called Köbstad in Denmark, […]

“We can’t afford it!” Insert the frothing face of the Republican congressperson of your choice above that phrase and you have a pretty comprehensive picture of the current debate in […]

In New York City, Susan Miller is an institution, a sage of the media and fashion worlds. As the astrologist for Elle magazine, best-selling author, and founder of AstrologyZone.com (est. […]

On December 17, 2009 the US carried out a missile strike against what it believed to be an al-Qaeda training camp in the south Yemeni governorate of Abyan.  Unfortunately, what […]

The polarized state of American politics has once again brought speculation and claims about a rising tide of anti-science in America and an attack on reason.  The prominence of such […]

My brother Erik Nisbet, a professor at The Ohio State University, has a study out that casts important new light on how Americans reacted to the news of the death […]

At Miller-McCune magazine, Emily Badger discusses  several key themes of the Climate Shift report, focusing on how the reaction from several bloggers connects to the findings of Chapter 4.  The full article is worth a […]

Much calamity has been made in popular books and by liberal commentators about the public’s scores on quiz like survey questions tapping basic knowledge of scientific facts or the public’s […]

Brown University has a news advisory out about Ken Miller’s presentation at the panel on “Communicating Science in a Religious America.” From the release: Kenneth Miller, a professor of biology […]

[Image from Salon.com feature on panelist Barbara J. King]Full details are now available for the previously announced panel on Communicating Science in a Religious America at February’s AAAS meetings in […]

For scienceblogs.com readers who have never been to an annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, you are missing out on the world’s greatest discussion of […]

This semester in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that Americans are using the Internet to alter the nature […]

n Despite the quip about American beer being like making love in a canoe, the US produces a multitude and a variety of brews that belie the homogenised tastes of […]

Books that were rarely taught in 1963, when baby boomers were students, became classics when those same boomers were teachers and parents.

One book will gather all topics on the search for life in the Cosmos.