Science & Society

Science by 8-year-olds

I thought I was going into Christmas recess, but then I saw this: Graduate students the world over have got to be feeling like slackers right now: A group of 8- to 10-year-old British schoolchildren have published a scientific paper in the peer-reviewed (R ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 23 2010 - 12:34pm

WCSJ 2011

Some shameful self-propaganda is in order today... Such posts have usually borne good fruits in the past, so why not! ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 27 2010 - 10:19am

Clusters, Technopolis, And A New Industrial Policy

Sorry I've been absent for a while. (I hope you missed me!) Here's one thing that's been keeping me busy: ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Dec 29 2010 - 11:43am

Scientific Method In Decline?

Jonah Lehrer in The New Yorker about the slipperiness of the scientific method: "The Truth Wears Off: Is There Something Wrong With The Scientific Method?" The test of replicability, as it’s known, is the foundation of modern research. Replicabil ...

Article - Michael White - Dec 30 2010 - 3:46pm

ADHD Yoghurt For Winning The Drug War

What is the most popular form of Citizen Science? Some want to make us believe it is SETI@home, 8 year olds being pressured by overenthusiastic teachers, or people in their backyards looking for comets. ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 24 2012 - 1:09am

"An Award-Winning Year for Science"-ScienceInsider

" 2010 was a banner year for science news and also a good one for Science 's news department. This year, our reporting team garnered six awards for stories published in the magazine or online. You can read more about these honors below, and if y ...

Blog Post - Vikki Cvichiee - Jan 1 2011 - 4:40pm

Sexing Up Global Warming For A New Decade

Environmental groups are concerned they have lost the trust of the public regarding global warming so they have taken to new marketing approaches.    They started the last decade with runaway public interest and goodwill and ended it with scandals and blac ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 3 2011 - 9:38pm

The Political Football Projection

When I were a lad (ay!) my father suggested that map projections was something I ought to interest myself in.  So I got hold of paper, ruler and pencil, drew a square grid, and then started filling in the outlines of the continents.  What emerged was somet ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jan 4 2011 - 5:44pm

Kraken Review: Chapter 1

The Shell and Mantle (a lovely pan-mollusca blog which regularly reminds me that cephalopods have some very cool cousins) kindly sent me a copy of China Miéville's Kraken after I whined about wanting to read it. I'm only one chapter in, so this ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Jan 6 2011 - 2:19am

HS/College Prep For Science

Are you thinking about majoring in science or engineering?  Want to get into a good college and leap out into a job?  Here's some advice for science-curious students in high school. As a HS junior, take HS Physics, Biology, or Chemistry-- whichever ma ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jan 7 2011 - 3:11pm