Dying for Dollars

Trading Dollars for Dollars: The Price of Attention Online and Offline

Recent years have witnessed a crisis in journalism. Newspaper staffs have been cut by a third since 2000 (Pew Research Center 2013). Stock prices of major newspaper companies have fallen by more than half over the same period. The costly work of gathering, interpreting, and disseminating news—activities widely believed to have large positive political and social externalities (Downs 1957; Becke...

Drumming up Dollars for Stem Cell Research

With stringent U.S. federal restrictions on funding for human embryonic stem cell research still in place, states grapple with the issue of whether to fund such research themselves.

Dying for science?

MOST SCIENTISTS ARE DEVOTED TO THEIR WORK AND ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT THE POTENTIAL benefits their research brings to society. But are they and their families prepared to die for their work? Should this even be a consideration when these individuals are working under carefully legislated and legal research conditions? For 13 University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), researchers, some of whom wo...

Money, Credit, and Euro-Dollars

Toxicology: judge data or dollars?

activity of DDT analogs and polychlorinated biphenyls. levels of organochlorine residues and risk of breast cancer. Environmental hormone disruptors: evidence that vinclozolin developmental toxicity is mediated by antian-drogenic metabolites. Dietary estrogens act through estrogen receptor-mediated processes and show no antiestrogenicity in cultured breast cancer cells. The knowledge gained by ...