Science & Society

"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

How To Become The Second Editor Of A 42-year-old Journal

I said there were two things keeping me busy and away from Science 2.0 for the last couple of months. The second thing was my transition to Editor-in-Chief of Technological Forecasting&Social Change, as of January 1. TFSC is the world’s premier scholar ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Jan 9 2011 - 5:39pm

Politics Matters...

... as depressing as that may be to hear. Some friends recently described their December trip to India, the first time they've visited in years. India's economy is on fire, unleashing some tremendous pent-up economic demand. What was striking, my ...

Article - Michael White - Jan 11 2011 - 3:18pm

Is There Still Gender Discrimination In Science?

Is there still gender discrimination in science?    We hear about it even today but is it a real problem or is it primarily a problem in that 'if there is even one instance it is too many' way that zealots insist on zero tolerance, even when appl ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 12 2011 - 3:00pm

Discrimination Against Men In Science

I am acutely aware of my advantages as a tall, white, semi-able-bodied Westerner with middle class background in a northern European culture. I had and still have it much easier than most people especially here in China. Believe me, I am 100% fully aware ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Aug 6 2011 - 11:00pm

Crazy Is What Crazy Does

It is well known among those who study schizophrenia that speech which does not reflect the true underlying reality produces the kinds of violent and crazy reactions displayed by the assassin of Tucsan. When we can no longer trust that the words our electe ...

Article - Ed Chen - Jan 31 2011 - 9:15am