Science & Society

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

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