Science & Society

'Hollywoood's job is not to educate but to entertain and inspire', but it turns out they find science inspirational. In the Going Hollywood podcast, you can listen (or read) about just how scientists get to, well, Go Hollywood. There are 3 ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - May 21 2010 - 9:34pm

Applying Scientific Methodology in Everyday life

Just a little insight on the final project I'm working on to complete this term. The class is called: Big Ideas in Science:From Methods to Mutation "Applying Scientific Methodology in Everyday life" By John Warga Sc ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - May 23 2010 - 11:29pm

Wakefield Will Follow it Through to Its Natural Conclusion

Wakefield, on the morning he was struck from the register in the UK, appeared on the Today show for an interview with Matt Lauer.Interestingly, in the background before the interview, Lauer notes that the GMC found Wakefield acted "dishonestly and ir ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - May 26 2010 - 9:25am

Poll: Americans Divided Over Oil Drilling And Climate Change, Still Not Into Darwin

A new survey conducted by Virginia Commonwealth University shows that Americans are divided over whether to increase offshore oil drilling, and a majority believes the risks outweigh the benefits. 51 percent of those surveyed said the environmental risks o ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2010 - 12:07pm

Optimism The Best Weapon Against Climate Change Denial

In order to get the public more involved in the climate change issue, scientists and activists have to move away from fear-laden imagery of drowning polar bears and flooded cities, according to new research published in Meteorological Applications. The pap ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2010 - 12:31pm

Anti-Science Debunking Conservatives And Progressives Agree On (And Some They Don't)

Conservatives have long lamented the politicization of science. And why wouldn't they? Scientists as a bloc haven't voted Republican in decades and when Republicans limit science, there is an outcry (and even whole books!) but when a Democrat l ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 27 2010 - 3:16pm

60 Years Of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction: A Chronological Curriculum Of The Ultimate Catastrophe

What does the Neanderthal genome have to with post-apocalyptic science fiction? It may seem like odd inspiration, but Neanderthals have aroused my interest in one of the most venerable genres of science fiction. Last summer I was awaiting the release of Th ...

Article - Michael White - Nov 12 2010 - 3:39pm

Love Thine Enemy

Love Thine Enemy It is exceedingly rare that the scientist and the believer can stand on the same platform and present the same message to the world in the form of a law of universal application. What is scientific, you may ask, about an injunction to lo ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 30 2010 - 2:39pm

Science Quotes

"No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer." Thomas Browne (1605-1682) "There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contr ...

Article - Camillo Di Cicco - Aug 19 2017 - 10:41am

Scientific Blogging: Official Blog Of The "Rise Of The Citizen-Scientist" H+ Summit

"The Year Of (insert your favorite cause here)" is usually driven by marketing departments and often to correspond to some sort of milestone. 2009 was "The Year of..." both Galileo and Darwin, for example, though no one seemed to find ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 1 2010 - 7:12pm