Urton: Climate and Baby Names

Urton: Climate and Baby Names

James Urton (@jamesurton) of UW News writes about new research showing a surprising effect of climate: baby name popularity in the U.S. The prevalence of first names that are months or seasons is strongly correlated with the latitude of the state in which they were...

Boyle: It’s All Politics

Conservatives are increasingly skeptical about science, reports Alan Boyle. (Paradoxically, he says, they are not likely to believe the results of the American Sociological Review study.) Boyle is the msnbc.com science editor and an official NSWA “friend of the...