Science & Society

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

Christie Brinkley To Receive HBA Positively Beautiful Award For Support Of Smile Train

NEW YORK, August 27, 2010 /PRNewswire/-- Iconic supermodel, entrepreneur and philanthropist Christie Brinkley, will receive the 2nd Annual HBA Positively Beautiful Award from HBA Global Expo (http://www.hbaexpo.com) for her active support of Smile Train a ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 3 2010 - 6:50pm

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

InterAcademy Council Report Urges 'Fundamental Reform' Of IPCC

The InterAcademy Council Board, composed of presidents of 15 academies of science and equivalent organizations(1) representing Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 31 2010 - 2:28pm

How To Make Open Access Better: Make Publishing Free Too

Recent estimates are that 7-11% of published research is 'open access', a term used to distinguish content that is open to other researchers and the public (free of charge to read) from research available only to subscribers of journals (called & ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 4 2010 - 4:03am

Source Credibility Versus Content Hypothesis- Scientists Lose When It Comes To Environmental Issues

While the public has a great respect for scientists, they don't trust scientists, at least when it comes to issues that also overlap with politics, like the environment. When it comes to policy-related topics, scientists have a limited effect on the p ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2010 - 11:55am

It’s Citizen Science Month at Make: Magazine

The publishers of Make: Magazine have announced that September 2010 is officially "Citizen Science" month. They are looking for citizen scientists to submit their projects, research, and activities to be featured in the magazine. It also seems ...

Blog Post - Matthew T. Dearing - Sep 5 2010 - 7:31am

Ride the Divide for Wounded Warriors

I just learned about this today so I am passing the info along. Why mention it? One of the riders is Pete Schleider, who is the lead outside investor in Science 2.0. He's a modest, compassionate guy who obviously cares about society and only menti ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 6 2010 - 2:10pm