Science & Society

A Fake Smithsonian Exhibit The integrity of the Smithsonian Institution hinges on disseminating knowledge in an objective, thorough and fair manner. Like the freedoms that our forefathers included in the First Amendment, the freedom to present information ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Oct 9 2010 - 8:34pm

Maurice Allais is no longer with us.

Maurice Allais won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1988. So why is he of interest here? His Telegraph Obituary is headed: Maurice Allais, who died on October 9 aged 99, was a Nobel Prize winner who warned against "casino" stockmarket practices ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Oct 12 2010 - 11:33am

Population growth is inversely proportional to prosperity

Population growth has been uneven in a country in a society and in the world. Global earth has to support 8 billion people in coming years starting from 1 billion only not so long ago. The world population is growing in geometric proportion. As far as I kn ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 13 2010 - 12:52pm

National Academies Announce 2010 Communication Awards Winners

The National Academies (the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine) announced the recipients of their 2010 Communication Awards today. Part of the Keck Futures Initiative, these awards recognize exc ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2010 - 10:56am

What Incest And Folk-Dancing Have In Common

Lunch Hour Lectures have been running at University College London since 1942. It's terrific to know that even at the height of World War II, British citizens wanted to learn about the latest science in an informal setting. Scheduled for today, the f ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2010 - 2:55pm

Caveat Emptor When It Comes To Science Blogs?

The American Chemical Society i s not new to disliking New Media- like all businesses, they would like to be self-perpetuating and that means people have to give them money for memberships and get a magazine for free which means getting quality without pay ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 14 2010 - 5:40pm

“Literary” $10,000 science writing award to be backed by Edward O. Wilson

Actor Harrison Ford, and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner (and Science 2.0 favorite) Dr. Edward O. Wilson are holding a press conference today at 3:30 in Palo Alto, California, to announce the newly created PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 16 2010 - 10:41am

Jury Style Banking: Bottom Up Banking And An Innovative Solution To The Financial Crisis

In New York State, under the Public Corporations law, so called "Authorities" or "Public Corporations" can be created that have the ability to raise capital, make autonomous decisions, and act independently fro the state government. No ...

Article - Ed Chen - Nov 19 2010 - 8:02pm

The novel as the scientific method of literature

There are some interesting parallels here between the development of scientific thinking and the development of literature: The novel broke from those narrative predecessors that used timeless stories to mirror unchanging moral truths. It was a product of ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 17 2010 - 10:29am

Here's an idea...

New vending machines are popping up in Germany. No, they aren't selling used underwear like in Japan. They're selling disposable shoes, called Ballerina To Go, for women whose feet are aching after dancing all night in the disco in towering high ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Oct 17 2010 - 12:37pm