Science & Society

USA Science & Engineering Festival's Grand Finale Expo This Weekend

If you are in the Washington, D.C. and only have 48 hours to kill, I have bad news- the USA Science&Engineering Festival has likely packed an entire month of good stuff into this weekend, so you will need Solomon-like wisdom to choose what you want to ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 22 2010 - 9:55am

Kraken: The Book

Wait. Which one? Three, yes three, separate books with kraken in the title came out this year: China Mieville's Kraken, fiction of the New Weird literary movement. I understand it does legitimately contain a giant squid. Comes highly recommended by an ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 24 2010 - 10:17am

Be anti-evo and be miserable

I get unsolicited mail: ProEvo: Pro Evolution- Guideline for an Age of Joy Being on a variety of evolution vs creationism mailing lists, I wasn't initially surprised to receive an apparently evolution-related book in the mail. I'd never heard thi ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 24 2010 - 10:06pm

Scientology Ad????

Let it be clear on this publically, to show I am not kidding: there is a scientology ad on the right column today. If that is not gone by tomorrow from here, I will. ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 26 2010 - 2:39pm

Sid The Squid Bids Kids To... What Exactly?

On the day after Squid Day, I got mail from the publishing company Immedium*, letting me know they'd just come out with a new children's book:  Sid the Squid and the Search for the Perfect Job. It might be of interest to me and my readers. Would ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Oct 27 2010 - 11:14am

Science Makes a Huge Splash on the National Mall in DC

The USA Science&Engineering Festival ended on Sunday October 24th, after six months of working us all 24/7. But it was worth it. We had more than 500,000 people come through and on the lawn of the National Mall on Sunday I overheard a parent telling he ...

Blog Post - Aimee Stern - Oct 27 2010 - 1:53pm

Speak up for biodiesel?

«There are two main ways in which policymakers are insidiously interfering with the usual rules of supply and demand for raw materials, and myriad different smaller ones.... One is the policy of ultra-cheap money in advanced economies to fight the economi ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Oct 28 2010 - 12:42pm

Free Range Science And The Reverse Professor

This week I agree to give an invited talk at the AGU, soldered some more of my satellite, advised a student, gave several short lectures, and edited some papers.  All of these are things professors get paid for-- except the editing.  Yet, ironically, the e ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Oct 29 2010 - 4:33pm

The Climate Insiders- Their Goal Is Doubt

The Climate Insiders- Their Goal Is Doubt I BRING fraternal greetings from the Mother of Parliament s to the Congress of your “athletic democracy”. I pray that God’s blessing may rest upon your counsels. Viscount Christopher Monckton. Testimony to The Ene ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Nov 1 2010 - 7:55pm

Will China overtake the US in science leadership?

There are times when being a communist dictatorship has its advantages.  Without having to worry about jobs or elections, you can enact a plan and stick to it until it works and, if a million or so peasants get displaced to build a dam, they don't vot ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 1 2010 - 11:25am