Science & Society

Apocalypse 1953: Homicidal Alien Blobs

Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End was my main pick for 1953 in our survey of post-apocalyptic sci-fi, but John Wyndham's Kraken Wakes is another great apocalypse novel from the same year. (It was published as Out of the Deeps in the US. Appare ...

Article - Michael White - Oct 18 2010 - 12:02pm

What is happiness and how to achieve it

Happiness is defined in east and west in different manner. Amassing huge amount of wealth by rulers in east was considered to make them happy while saints of eastern philosophy derived their happiness in renunciation of world. One boy was sitting on a buff ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 18 2010 - 1:25am

AGU Meetup? (San Fran, Dec 13-17)

Hi all, I'm giving an invited talk at the AGU this year and would looooove to hook up with other Science2.0-ers.  Anyone else going to be there, or in San Fran, Dec 13-17?  I'll be there on the 16th and probably stay the weekend.  Would love to m ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Oct 18 2010 - 11:50am

Does Open Access Lead To More Quality Citations? The Data Says...

If you like to read science studies you are most likely to get them through one of two avenues; the long-standing business model has been that a print journal gets the study and does the work formatting it and lends their 'goodwill' to it with ma ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 18 2010 - 6:03pm

Sweet Lemons: During Recession, Some People Value Work Less

During the recession, a number of people have begun to value work less (unless finances force them to value work much, much more)-  time away from family, less leisure time and fewer self-improvement activities have begun to get noticed. In other words, t ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 18 2010 - 6:37pm

Germaine Greer: Feminism Fun

Think feminists are angry?   Many zealots in any movement come across as bitter to outsiders but Professor Germaine Greer is giving a talk at the Literary Leicester Festival at the University of Leicester and intends to discuss what enormous fun she has ha ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2010 - 5:00am

It's Open Access Week!

I don't know who decides this "week" stuff- generally, I assume people who do the marketing make the rules so if I decide I want a Science 2.0 Week I get a few people to promote it and that's that, I have a Science 2.0 Week. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 19 2010 - 2:36pm

Apocalypse 1958: The Tide Went Out

A Nuclear Eco-Catastrophe ...

Article - Michael White - Oct 20 2010 - 12:03pm

“A man is what he thinks about all day long…….”

Emerson said “A man is what he thinks about all day long…….”. What controls our thought process? We can have 9 types of thoughts as are the “ rasa”. Some of the thoughts could be of Love, hate, fear anger, devotion, renunciation, happiness, pleasure and p ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 20 2010 - 2:27am

Appeal To Evidence: The Vaccine Controversy

CNN covers the vaccine issue in a news article on its website, highlighting a family who nearly lost their child to Hib because they had bought into the doubts, fears, and misinformation out there regarding vaccines. It's an effective story, highlight ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Oct 22 2010 - 9:04pm