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The splendid World Happiness Database has released a new analysis of their 2009 data. Basically what they've done is to multiply happiness scores in each nation with the life expectancy. The idea is that what most people want is a life that's both long...
You might have seen the recent study which found that the subtle smell of Windex (a brand of window cleaner) makes people more charitable. Time magazine, for one, carried a report - which got up the nose of a writer on the GetReligion blog. Here's the...
An earlier post looked at the connection in the USA between religion and a high teen pregnancy rate. High fertility and religion often goes together, and whenever this topic comes up the immediate question is: will the religious inexorably 'out-breed'...
This Fridays' Guardian reports on a new survey which found that a third of doctors in the UK have taken treatment decisions they thought would hasten a patient's death.
The sorts of patients we're talking about here are those who are already near...
Here's a study that Razib over at Gene Expression picked up on last month. Basically, it's a very simple regression of religiosity versus teen births in US states.
Importantly, it's an ecological study. That means it's not looking necessarily at...
Covers quite a wide range of topics related to humanism (atheism) and science. Subjects include psychology, morality, education, evolution etc. Style can be patchy, but it's mostly readable. On the whole, somewhat highbrow but would be of interest to anyone with an interest in science.
