Science & Society

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

Can Science Be Justified?

“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