Science & Society

Secrets Of 'Fixing' Science Journalism

Fix can mean to repair or to gimmick, as in 'the fix is in'.  I'm not going to tell you how to repair science journalism.  A few wingnuts stalwarts here at Science 2.0 beat that to death.  Their suggestions include sack the journalists, and ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Aug 20 2010 - 3:39pm

TV Drives Giant Squid Research

A couple months shy of a year ago, I was raving about the news that a new giant squid documentary was in the works. Guess what? It's still in the works! If this weren't so deadly serious (joke) I'd be laughing my head off about the meta-meta ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Aug 21 2010 - 12:00pm

Tylophora Indica for asthama

Tylophora Indica (  Asclepiadaceae)   Root or leaf powder is used in diarrhoea, dysentery and intermittent fever. Dried leaves are emetic diaphoretic and expectorant. It is regarded as one of the best indigenous substitute for ipecacuanha. The roots are s ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 21 2010 - 6:33am

M.A.D. 2.0

M.A.D. 2.0 The greatest fear of mankind after World War 2 was the real possibility of a World War 3. It was a rational fear of a very real threat: the global destruction of civilization. Nations, most especially the USA and the former USSR, found themselv ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Aug 10 2011 - 6:14pm

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