Negative Space: research
- Annotations and Information
- Comics, Annotations and Information
- Comic Book Net Sites
- Information about comics, creators, and characters throughout the net.
- Comics Scholarship
- Writings, studies, and surveys about comics, the comics community, and comics history.
- Drug Abuse in Industry
- What does it cost and what can be done? Robert E. Hosty and Francis J. Elliott, Security Management, Vol. 29, No. 10, October 1985, pp. 53, 55-58.
- Marihuana and the Problem of Marihuana
- The commission asks a very good question: Why marijuana? Why now? It isn’t as if there aren’t other vice, illegal for even longer than marijuana, that could be exciting public interest. The difference is, who takes part in these vices? Gambling and prostitution is for older people; marijuana is for the younger counter-culture.
- Public Health, Public Morals, and Public Order: Social Science and Liquor Control in Massachusetts, 1880-1916
- Thomas F. Babor and Barbara G. Rosenkrantz note some of the battling studies in the nineteenth century; as usual there was a concentration on what I call the life preserver phenomenon: studies that focus on drownings will show that there is a much higher percentage of life preservers either nearby or in possession of the deceased.
- Religious upbringing study uses odd definition of altruism
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The religious upbringing altruism study is a failure because the researchers failed to define their moral terms. You can’t study altruism and judgmentalism unless you come up with a definition of the terms. Their definition appears to have been “willing to give money to social science researchers”.
- Role-Playing Defense text archive
- Elder role-playing game research, legal information, and rants.
- Second Amendment Scholarship
- Web pages and books on the history and legal meaning of the second amendment, as well as history and current studies of firearms in society.
- Why government-funded cancer research is dangerously unlike the Manhattan Project
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A “Manhattan Project” for cancer is likely to delay cancer cures, and make what cancer cures we find more expensive—like the Epipen. And kill people, like the original Manhattan Project.
More Information
- Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? (PDF)
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International evidence and comparisons have long been offered as proof that more guns mean more deaths and that fewer guns, therefore, mean fewer deaths. Unfortunately, such discussions are all too often been afflicted by misconceptions and factual error and focus on comparisons that are unrepresentative. (Don B. Kates and Gary Mauser)
- Comics Scholarship Annotated Bibliographies
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Annotated bibliographies of “book-length works about comic books and comic strips, from fannish histories to academic monographs”. One of the most useful comics scholarship pages on the net.
- Comics: A Tool of Subversion?
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From the Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture. Includes a summary of (up to the time of the writing) some acts of comics censorship.
- The History of Comic Books
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The History of Superhero Comics has been updated to comic books in general. Great resource for comics history buffs. Nice cover shots.
