Science & Society
- Citizen Science and the Age of Knowledge Generosity
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On the eve of Thanksgiving, we tend to start our annual pondering about how we might give more to our friends and family, and maybe even to the world. Citizen scientists--whether they consciously realize it or not--are behaving in a uniquely giving mood w ...
Blog Post - Matthew T. Dearing - Nov 24 2010 - 12:47am
- A cohort by any other name, how scientists can inadvertently help the bigots
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Blog Post - Ken Myron - Nov 27 2010 - 2:05pm
- Why Scientists Should Blog (Redux)
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Why scientists should blog is not a new topic to Science 2.0. In a way, I think we pioneered science blogging (1) because, prior to us, the only science bloggers with any real audience mostly wrote about politics and religion and last year I chaired a p ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 24 2010 - 8:06pm
- NSF Funding Citizen Science From Gulf Oil Spill
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Recently, we featured an article on how new federal money-- funneled through the NOAA -- is being directed to citizen science efforts (read more). ...
Article - Matthew T. Dearing - Nov 30 2010 - 8:11am
- Much Ado About Nothing: Science Communication FAIL?
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Anyone who woke up yesterday morning hoping that December 2 nd 2010 might be a historic day in the search for extraterrestrial life is likely to be sorely disappointed. All week the hype has been building since the NASA PR machine announced that they were ...
Article - Jane de Lartigue - Dec 3 2010 - 3:21pm
- Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes
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Not sure how all this works yet, but anyway, I found this nice presentation of world life expectancy and wealth over the last 200 years. The data is interesting in itself, but the presentation is particularly interesting/entertaining. ...
Blog Post - Steve Donaldson - Dec 3 2010 - 5:37pm
- Death- Humanity's Number One Problem
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The three problems of humanity were outlined in a talk by Nick Bostrom (of Oxford University, UK) at TED in April 2009. While I'm sure there are some that will consider these points to be quite reasonable in setting goals, I'm continuously amaz ...
Article - Gerhard Adam - Dec 4 2010 - 7:26pm
- New York Times: The Lost Puzzles
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Did you get visit here after quickly vanquishing my puzzles in this morning's New York Times Science section? If so, you're likely ready for a new challenge. Below are the puzzles the Times cut — because they're too darn tricky or perhaps be ...
Article - Garth Sundem - Dec 8 2010 - 2:51pm
- Economics- The Cheerful Science?
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Economics is always called the dismal science, because it has science pretensions yet never makes accurate predictions. The outlook, according to economists, is always rather bleak. But given the current state of the economy, economists are downright ecs ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 8 2010 - 1:13pm
- Poor Nations: Medieval England Had It Better Than You
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Economics is called the dismal science for a reason- things are never very good to economists. Heck, economists have been over the moon about the economic downturn because it gives them something to talk about ("Economy booming, inflation low without ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 8 2010 - 1:48pm
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