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Halloween Horror Science: Are Chickens That Learn A Bigger Threat To Us Than AI?

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) vegetarian advocacy group ...

Ignore Critics, Gen Z, We Weren't Smarter In 1984

It's commonplace for older generations to criticize the young. In my early career, an older fellow...

Taking The Book Of The Dead To Heart

In ancient Egypt, the heart was the key to a happy afterlife. It lived on after death, they believed...

American CO2 Is Below War War II Levels But We Keep Emissions High In Poor Countries

In politics, one way to make your belief in alternative energy seem feasible is to make its competitors...

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A new book argues that scientists are motivated by sex and s

Feb 07 2008 | comment(s)

A new book argues that scientists are motivated by sex and status ... and, also, scientists don't need public funding. The money quote: And they want it for the same reasons as those white-coated chemists who work so hard to make the next breakthrough scientific discovery. To advertise their sexual fitness. I knew all of you wrote here for a reason beyond altruism; you're making dates for the next conference.

Are Cartoons Less Male Chauvinistic Now? Were They Ever?

Feb 03 2008 | comment(s)

Honestly, did you even known there was a Department of Pedagogy anywhere? Well, there is. They teach about the science of teaching. And apparently cartoons.

Pilar Casares García is a teacher in the Department of Pedagogy at the University of Granada but instead of teaching about teaching, she researches male chauvinism. In cartoons.

This was apparently once a real problem once but she says it's better now; women are as intelligent, agile, attractive, strong, and heroic as their male counterparts ... or more.

President Bush asked Congress to double federal support for

Jan 30 2008 | comment(s)

President Bush asked Congress to double federal support for basic research in the physical sciences in the State of the Union address. I guess he reads my column.

We know that graduate school admissions in science went way

Jan 29 2008 | comment(s)

We know that graduate school admissions in science went way up in 2006 and that's a good thing.

Arizona's $250 Million Space Science Pay Day At Risk

Jan 25 2008 | comment(s)

A new report by the Arizona Arts, Sciences, and Technology Academy (AASTA) found that research in astronomy, planetary sciences, and space sciences (APSS) pumped over $250 million into Arizona’s economy in 2006 alone.

That's real money but it's not all balloons and ponies for Arizona. There are threats to that economic engine and it's what you can probably guess - the instability of federal funding and competition from other locations - but it's also things you might not guess, like light pollution from residential and commercial development and lingering memories of environmental and political activism.

I discovered The Guild of Scientific Troubadours because the

Jan 24 2008 | comment(s)

I discovered The Guild of Scientific Troubadours because they linked to one of our articles. The interesting hook? "Membership in the guild is restricted only to those musicians capable of keeping the Guild Pledge: To write, record and submit one (1) song per month based on a story in one of a number of scientific publications." Who would have thought it? We are not on their list of approved "scientific publications", though something odd like physorg.com that only reprints AP articles and university press releases is. So maybe they don't want to write songs about articles written by actual scientists?