Science Education & Policy

Ivory Tower Needs To Embrace Social Media

Universities, with a young  constituency and an employee base of academics interested in new discoveries and ways of communication, should have embraced social media early- but they have not and if they don't embrace new techniques in pedagogy they ri ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 11 2009 - 3:36pm

Your University Now Owns Your Blog

Bora has posted  an interesting draft policy on social media from an unidentified "Big Research Institution" (BRI). It's already stimulating some good discussion (follow the link for more links)- no surprise, since the policy guidelines cont ...

Article - Michael White - Apr 16 2009 - 10:26am

A Scientific Approach To Science Education- Technology And Institutional Change

Continued from A Scientific Approach to Science Education- Beliefs, Guided Thinking And Technology. ...

Article - Carl Wieman - Apr 21 2009 - 5:02pm

Chew Gum, Get Better Math Grades?

WHAT: New research from Baylor College of Medicine indicates a positive effect of chewing gum on academic performance in teenagers. The study examined whether chewing Wrigley sugar-free gum can lead to better academic performance in a "real life" ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2009 - 11:53am

It can't be that simple (*$%?!*)

I have recently been contacted by a friend who is worried at the decline in numeracy in the West.  He asked me what I thought of the following: In 2005, Newt Gingrich (who had been on the Hart-Rudman Commission) stated: The collapse of math and science edu ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Apr 22 2009 - 2:00pm

The Humanities Are In Crisis- Science Is Not

Graduate education in the humanities may have its problems, but don't try to tar science with the same brush. In a NY Times Op-Ed, by Dr. Mark Taylor, the chairman of Columbia's religion department, we're told that graduate education in gene ...

Article - Michael White - Apr 28 2009 - 12:13pm

Getting Rid of Tenure

Is tenure good for America? Mark Taylor, a professor of religion, has observed (in the New York Times) that: ...

Blog Post - Nicholas Horton - Apr 27 2009 - 5:18pm

Is Richard Dawkins Really That Naive?

Richard Dawkins doesn’t usually strike me as being naïve, but one has to wonder when Dawkins abandons himself to the following sort of writing about his favorite topic these days, the incompatibility between science and religion,  on his web site: ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Apr 28 2009 - 12:01pm

Big Science Puts Black Swans in Danger of Extinction

This topic isn't new, but it's worth revisiting (h/t to Bioephemera)- over at Physicsworld  read about science's need for "black swan" scientists: If the path to discovery is full of surprises, and if most of the gains come in just ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Apr 29 2009 - 9:24pm

Adolf Hitler- World's Best-Selling Children's Author.

Who are your all time favourite childrens' authors? Dr. Seuss, Enid Blyton, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Adolf Hitler? Warning: satire alert! Adolf Hitler- World's Best-Selling Children's Author. Adolf Hitler, famous author of t ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - May 1 2009 - 10:09am