Science & Society

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

Vote For Scientific Blogging At 3 Quarks Daily For The 2010 3QD Prize In Science

3 Quarks Daily is a 'filter blog' that compiles stuff from around the web on a daily basis, in science, design, literature, current affairs, art, and anything else they deem inherently fascinating. They say the name derives from that moment in 1 ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 2 2010 - 3:46pm

Moncktonian Climatology

Moncktonian Climatology Christopher Monckton presents himself as an expert on climate. Since he is an expert on climate, it follows that we should all trust and believe him when he says that there is no problem with the Arctic sea ice. "Arctic ice ex ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 3 2010 - 9:39am

Democracy is not a way to resolve technical questions

In the latest issue of Science, one of the outstanding contemporary philosophers of science, Philip Kitcher, in a review of books on global warming, offers this excellent bit of wisdom on science and democracy: ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jun 3 2010 - 2:54pm

Science 2.0- Darwinian Selection Of The Best Paper

Science 2.0 is Openness and transparency. Those buzz words mean open* access to both reading and publishing and sharing ones opinion on what is published. Transparency means a process where any editorial decisions that are made are based on known written ...

Article - Hontas Farmer - Jun 5 2010 - 8:39pm

The Science Of Fiction

The Science Of Fiction Tip of the hat to Eric Diaz for reminding me of the muse. Long before writing was invented, amazing stories were told through the medium of the ballad and the saga. Those old tall tales and modern science fiction often have a few c ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 4 2010 - 3:01pm

The Idea-Monger: No Genius Required

You are an idea-monger. Science, art, technology – it doesn’t matter which. What matters is that you’re all about the idea. You live for it. You’re the one who wakes your spouse at 3 AM to describe your new inspiration. You’re the person who suddenly veer ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Jun 7 2010 - 6:50am

Another win for citizen science

If you haven't heard- and you will, because I will keep talking about it- citizen science is getting its own summit this weekend, when H+ sponsors " Rise of the Citizen-Scientist "(1)... but that is not all that's been going on. Citiz ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 7 2010 - 8:07am