Science & Society

Cigarettes Don't Kill As Much As Counterfeit Cigarettes Do

Large amounts of money are being siphoned from the multi-billion dollar cigarette smuggling trade and going right into the pockets of terrorist networks and international organized crime.  A United Nations Security Council investigative body, the Group of ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2010 - 5:14pm

Mindblindness And The Role Of Culture In Seeing The Other

I think that there is an innate (somewhat mindblind) tendency to assume that other people think, feel, react the same way we do. Americans are often egocentric. We think that our way is the best way and assume that everyone wants to be like us. While it c ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Jun 13 2010 - 12:19am

Manifesto For The Simple Scribe- Rules Of Prose

Little nuggets of (k)nowledge can often be the most simple and common sense ideas, but it takes someone else to put them into a coherent sentence. Tim Radford is a freelance journalist who has written for the Guardian, The Lancet, New Scientist and others, ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Jun 13 2010 - 6:08pm

Media Barometer- Science 2.0 Is Taking Over

It's no secret social media is big- every marketing group latches on to the latest fad (even us- we gots the Tweetypages, we gots the Faceyspaceys) and people are using it more and more.   But in the recent past, for many the Internet was just another ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 15 2010 - 12:09pm

Science And Religion

"What is the meaning of our existence, what is the meaning of existence for all living beings in general? Knowing how to answer such a question means to have religious feelings. You will say, but then sense asking this question. I will respond: anyone ...

Article - Camillo Di Cicco - Jun 16 2010 - 10:25am

New 2009 Impact Factors Soar For Newest Cell Press Journals

In the year since their 2008 preliminary ranking, Cell Stem Cell and Cell Host and Microbe saw their Impact Factors surge, according to new data released in the 2009 Journal Citation Reports(c) published by ThomsonReuters.   The Impact Factor is a measure ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2010 - 3:59pm

The Ingredients Of A Good Popular Science Book

The hardback of The Vision Revolution has been out for one year, and I couldn’t be happier with the reaction it has received, including reviews in fantastic places like the Wall Street Journal and Sciam Mind and mentions in places like the New York Times. ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Jun 21 2010 - 10:57am

Should The BP Oil Spill Be A Weapon In The Culture War?

The BP oil spill in the Gulf is doing unmeasurable damage to the local economy and ecology of the region.   Are government efforts geared toward making undersea oil extraction safer or cleaning up the damage done? Not really.   Pres. Obama's BP Deepwa ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 21 2010 - 2:11pm

Open Access And Good Citations: The PLoS Factor

The big war in science during this decade has not been Republicans against human embryonic stem cell research or Democrats against agriculture, it has instead been open access publishing versus subscription peer-reviewed journals. Open access publishing of ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 25 2010 - 4:03pm

Why Does Consensus Matter In Climate Science?

A new  study published in the Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences has compared the qualifications and publication histories of climate change skeptics to those of Anthropogenic global warming proponents.  Unsurprisingly, those espousing skeptic ...

Blog Post - Cameron J English - Jun 23 2010 - 10:33pm