4 Conferences Worth Attending in September and October
From Self-Sacrifice and Martyrdom to Sixteenth Century Society, academic gatherings you should be aware of.
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What Feeds Racism: The Problem With Paula Deen and Good Southern Ladies
Research clearly shows that even “nice" people can be racist.
News Outlets Show Significant Bias in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage
The public is in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage, but not by a margin of five to one, which is how a new Pew study weighs coverage during Supreme Court hearings for two landmark cases.
Violent Crime Is Dropping: Why Are We So Scared?
A majority of Americans continue to overestimate crime rates, even as crime levels drop across the country.
The Melting-Pot Gazette
Can a sociologist and a journalist get an ethnically fractured city engaged?
Will DNA Be the Hard Drive of the Future?
If you can say it in words, you can store it in nucleotides, experimenters have confirmed. And is the new storage medium durable? You bet your Jurassic Park it is.
The Touchy-Feely Future
Haptic technology is letting us get fresh with our devices. (But no, it's not ready for porn yet.)
Smokin’ Election Campaign Quote of the Week
No doubt assuming Americans are more concerned about high gasoline prices than long-term threats to the environment, neither…
For Teens Online, Hundreds of ‘Friends’ and No One to Turn To
A tragic suicide underscores just how easy it is for teenagers to find trouble on the Web—and how hard it can be to escape the past.
Journalists: Why Do We Even Bother?
Why am I even writing this? Odds are that you, dear reader, don’t believe a word journalists like…