Science & Society

“John is a man. All men are mortal. Therefore, John is mortal.” This argument from two premises to the conclusion is a deductive argument. The conclusion logically follows from the premises; equivalently, it is logically impossible for the conclusion not t ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Aug 3 2010 - 9:47am

The Ugly Side Of Beauty- Pretty Women Face Job Discrimination Too

Attractive women face discrimination when it comes to landing certain kinds of jobs, especially those with job titles like manager of research and development, director of finance, mechanical engineer and construction supervisor where appearance is conside ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2010 - 1:02pm

Hackerspaces Offer Unique Opportunity For The Citizen Scientist

A typical dream of an active citizen scientist might be to have one's own fully-equipment research laboratory and tinkering space conveniently established in one's own garage or basement. ...

Article - Matthew T. Dearing - Sep 6 2012 - 2:15am

Some tips for young science journalists

Colin Schultz, a video journalist in Ontario, has some tips for aspiring science journalists. Science readership is going up each year but science journalism jobs are decreasing. How so? Some of it is that science literacy is increasing (1) so more an ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 10 2010 - 1:12pm

Even if Science 2.0 is not your brand, science is

J.L. Vernon echoes many of the points I made in Are Science Blogging Networks Dead? but also focuses on a distinct aspect, writing Just like the NBA, “Science” is a brand. It's a message that may be lost on some, or they would self-police a little be ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 10 2010 - 6:10pm

Science3.0?

Over at the NASW.org archives, their cybrarian did a summary of science blog sites. And in case "Science2.0" isn't hot enough, we find science3point0.com (yes, that's their moniker): Another social networking site with appended blogs i ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Aug 13 2010 - 12:08pm

Why I Just Left Academia

This week a computer science researcher named Vinay Deolalikar claimed to have a proof that P is not equal to NP. Let’s set aside what this means for another day, lest I get distracted. The important thing now is that this is big. Huge, even! If, that is, ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Aug 13 2010 - 3:24pm

Zombies- A Public Policy Study

Zombies- A Public Policy Study Found last night during a Google search for latest news about something entirely unrelated to this search result: Night of the Living Wonks Toward an international relations theory of zombies. There are many sources of fear ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Aug 14 2010 - 1:24pm

The Singularity Stole My ATM Card

The difficult thing about popularizing movements is that, in the beginning, you want recognition but as time goes on the interests of the movement may be divergent from the people involved in it. So it goes with the singularity. In 1993, Vernor Vinge sa ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 15 2010 - 3:56pm

Low Income Kids More Likely To Admit Early Sex, Crime And Drugs- Study

A new article concludes that early intervention for young people with delinquency problems may help prevent the development of crime, alcoholism and risky sex behaviors, especially among those with low incomes. The study in the J ournal of Child Psycholog ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2010 - 10:55am