Science & Society

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

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