Science & Society

Big news, school lunch eaters- your rectangle-shaped pizza will soon be burned and served up cold 1 with less sodium! Schwan's Food Service, based in the lovely state of Minnesota, is ahead of schedule by a year on reducing the sodium content of its B ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 19 2010 - 4:39pm

Does the blogosphere drive out undesirable opinions?

In the continuing wake of the Pepsigate scandal at Scienceblogs (it made a splash, and then seemed to die away, but suddenly there have been 18 departures) a writer at the Guardian takes that community to task for being insular. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 20 2010 - 11:19am

New screening criteria proposed for Alzheimer's

I had a "driveway" moment today listening to NPR- you know, where the story is really interesting and you've arrived at your destination but want to hear the end and folks walking by your car stare at you like you're about to pull off a ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 21 2010 - 6:12pm

Genetic Testing Companies Busted By Undercover Patients- But Which?

It was bound to happen. Something which should be used for good can also be used for malice. Allison Aubrey, writing on NPR, discusses the results of an undercover investigation by the GAO which says patients are getting blatantly ridiculous advice. One ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 12 2010 - 12:16pm

Lessons from being Interviewed by NPR

I gave you my media secrets on how to get interviewed by NPR. Now that I've heard the final cut of the Project Calliope segment, I can look at 'was it worth it'? Short answer: absolutely yes! I deem the NPR Project Calliope segment succes ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Oct 29 2010 - 2:45pm

Newsweek agrees on Pepsigate at Scienceblogs- all institutional blogs were the problem

In Symbol Stacks And Science Communication In The Scienceblogs Pepsigate Scandal I mentioned something that was unpopular with the bloggerati in science but obvious to those of us outside the relatively small confines of the science blogging clique; Pepsi ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 26 2010 - 10:32pm

Critiquing The Role Of The Citizen Scientist

Early last month, Michael White’s Adaptive Complexity on Science 2.0 had a useful critique of the citizen scientist. ...

Article - Matthew T. Dearing - Jul 27 2010 - 7:51am

Archaeology vs Pseudoarchaeology Presented at Incom 2010 (1 of 6)

The first of six parts of my presentation at Inconjunction 2010. I presented on Archaeology and PseudoArchaeology. It was my first live talk, so I was really serious, but the audience was great and I had some great audience participation at the end. Also, ...

Blog Post - Serra Head - Jul 28 2010 - 10:17am

Artists In Residence: What Are They And When Are They Useful?

I've recently had two similar, yet very different, experiences in my day job as a science writer. A few months ago I was assigned to write a piece for symmetry Magazine (look for it in August!) about an artist in residence at Paul Alivisatos ' na ...

Article - Lauren Rugani - Aug 2 2010 - 9:45am

David Brin Talks about the Future of the Amateur Scientist

Back in the day, families in general seemed to do most of the work needed for themselves by themselves; since this was really required if a family was to simply survive the day. Over the past 100 years, the reliance on professionalism across the globe has ...

Blog Post - Matthew T. Dearing - Aug 2 2010 - 8:23pm