Science & Society

Cataclysmic cuts in European science.

The Washington Post reports on massive cuts across the world of European science.  The impact on young scientist will be devastating as their research is placed on hold.  All 12 accelerators at CERN will be mothballed for at least a year.  The European Spa ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 7 2010 - 12:36pm

Judicial Activism Is The Problem In The Embryonic Stem Cell Injunction

I have long told my more progressive brethren who have been happy about overarching judicial decisions they happened to like that activism is a double-edged sword.   Certainly it's reasonable to 'cross that bridge' when society gets to it, b ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 8 2010 - 1:30pm

Blogs and Traditional Press- 10% science content versus 1%

Are blogs valuable?   They must be to science readers.  A Pew Research Center study shows that Old Media doesn't cover science very well, leaving a gap to be filled by bloggers, with 10X the science content.  And leadership. They cite the "Climat ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 8 2010 - 1:56pm

How Hard Science Saves Lives

The debate on hard and soft science seems to still be on – also here on Science2.0. As a representative of several hard sciences (mathematics, physics, theoretical astrophysics, geodesy...) I have always been annoyed by variations over the statement ' ...

Article - Bente Lilja Bye - Sep 9 2010 - 4:26pm

Traditional medicines are important but why they lack appeal.

Traditional medicines are facing problems in the global market and sometime they are not up to the mark though the formulae are correct, ingredients some times are not botanically correctly identified, contents are not monitored, expiry dates are not menti ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 9 2010 - 1:40pm

9/11: Science predicted the Castration of a Phallus Symbol

9/11 implies some sort of terror for everybody, mostly in form of boundless hypocrisy. Was it unimaginable, unthinkable? I knew 9/11 would happen since I first saw the twin towers in 1995. ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 6 2011 - 10:01pm

So You Think Scientists And Engineers Can't Dance?

Thought I'd weigh in on the is "Is Science a Form of Dance" discussion by turning it on its head. Dance may well be a form of art as well as science- but what about the scientists themselves? Can they express their work through the art form ...

Article - Aimee Stern - Sep 12 2010 - 10:27am

More on the Usual Cheating in Science

My series on cheating is about very disturbing trends in science. These posts will draw a gloomy picture about modern science. And I am not talking from the outside like philosophers in so called 'science studies', who mostly would not look at a ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Mar 11 2012 - 8:12am

Citizen Science Panels Proposed For The United States

The scientific elite have been moving forward with their advancements in science at an accelerated pace over the past one hundred years. It is this exponentially speedy development that is providing modest hope to even the  Gen-X  babies at reaching the m ...

Article - Matthew T. Dearing - Sep 13 2010 - 9:24pm

Women Take Lead In US PhDs Awarded

It's been a mantra that more money has to be spent on outreach for women in academia, or even quotas implemented.  Why?   Women PhDs are now the majority, at least in the US.   This was an obvious trend since there were more underclass and graduate pr ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 14 2010 - 12:06pm