Science & Society

Analogy Watch

Yesterday, JR Minkel tweeted this: @jrminkel The most striking science analogy I've ever heard: http://bit.ly/auGvp4 The link leads to a brief excerpt from an NPR story in which Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David Linden says, ...

Blog Post - Lauren Rugani - Aug 24 2010 - 11:35am

Open science and the march of history

Jason Hoyt, Ph.D., is Chief Scientist and VP of R&D at Mendeley, and asks researchers which side they want to be on in the march of history- legacy toll access to results or open access of both science and publication. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 24 2010 - 2:51pm

Music on a Planetary Scale (podcast)

Listen to Mars, now listen to me, now listen to Mars. This is what Mars could sound like, if it sounded like me. Today, we listen to sonification of data, artistic interpretation, and discuss which is ‘better’ and which is ‘more real’. Can we hear a point ...

Blog Post - Project Calliope - Aug 24 2010 - 2:57pm

Phil Plait Creates A Bad Universe

Dr. Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy fame has been a Science 2.0 favorite since the moment we came online and for almost a decade prior to that.  He combines wit and no-nonsense skepticism with the kind of creative reflex that makes fundamental science concepts ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 26 2010 - 9:17am

Flying Or Driving: Which Is Safer?

In reading one of the other posts a casual point was made regarding the relative safety of flying versus driving.  It is generally assumed that flying is, by far, the safest of the two modes of travel, but is this really true?  In looking at the data, it a ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Aug 25 2010 - 1:47pm

Should bloggers have control over ads?

It's been a strange summer for online content and Simon Owens at The Next Web asks an obvious question- should bloggers have control over ads or not? It's a non-issue here, of course- every writer on Science 2.0 can simply choose not to carry ads ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 25 2010 - 8:46pm

The New Dark Ages In Blinding Light

When selling popular science, relativity theory is presented as weird, the quantum as unfathomable, inflation is ghostly, faster than light. Prominent scientists justify this self important glamorization. They claim it arouses the interest in science. I b ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Aug 16 2011 - 10:01pm

Fad Science Is Bad Science

The Wall Street Journal took the Marc Hauser controversy (barely noticed here, because it's evolutionary psychology, which is sort of apodictically evident as bad science so we didn't react to it) and used his suspect data on monkey cognition to ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 27 2010 - 6:20pm

Investigating Ghosts- For Real?

Hank recently wrote a piece that dealt with the problem of a " ghost train " and a "ghost hunter" that was killed by a real train while waiting for the apparition. Since these were amateur ghost hunters, it would be a bit much to presum ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Aug 28 2010 - 11:21am

Judicial Activism Is Always Bad For Science

Politics is funny business because there will always be a conflict between freedom, democracy and the Constitution and political winds blow decisions in various directions- that's the way it was written and part of why it works.   Given the power of t ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2010 - 1:50am