Science & Society

And Another One Throws The Towel And Leaves Science

“Yesterday night I was in my office in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge packing my stuff, resolved to not go back to research again …” This sad story is another warning to all those enthusiastic about getting into science. One mo ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 19 2011 - 6:17am

The Evolution Of A Vaccine Textbook And The Arrogant Ignorance Of The Anti-Vaccine Movement

One of the fairly common things out of the "pro-safe" vaccine crowd insists is that there's inadequate research on vaccines. What better way to look at how information has grown over time than to look at the evolution of a vaccine textbook a ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Feb 20 2011 - 1:25pm

When Our Worldview Is Our Own Backyard

We all do it: we define things from our own perspective. One example I see over and over again is the idea that autism is whatever it looks like in our own kids, or own experience of it, not someone else's. If autism is accompanied with other problems ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Feb 21 2011 - 7:56am

Sniffer Rats

CLICK HERE for some pictures showing how giant African pouched rats are being used to detect land mines and tuberculosis in Tanzania and Mozambique. Their noses are very sensitive to TNT, and they are proving to be much easier to train than dogs. ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Feb 24 2011 - 9:57am

It's Often Not The Word: It's The Attitude

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Article - Kim Wombles - Feb 24 2011 - 6:07pm

Mnookin's The Panic Virus, Offit's Deadly Choices And Vaccine Epidemic: One Of These Is Not Like The Others

Mnookin's  site Offit's  site      Vaccine Epidemic' s  site ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Feb 25 2011 - 7:33pm

The Merging Of Art And Science As A Communication Tool

People are sometimes surprised to hear that I am both a research scientist and an artist, but I see them as quite similar in purpose, only different medium. They both involve imagination, visualization, and communication of those ideas in a way that makes ...

Article - Andrea Kuszewski - Feb 26 2011 - 4:06am

Were Republicans Smart All Along? They Accept Climate Change But Not Global Warming

If we're being honest in retrospect, the first decade of the 2000s was bad for science journalism.    Too many journalists decided they wanted to be cheerleaders for science or, worse, had scientist envy and wanted to be included in cool discussions a ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 5 2011 - 10:04am

Senators, Please Do Not Cut Science Research

I just became aware of a letter that is being sent to a couple of US Senators by a large and illustrious collection of scientists, and I decided to put my signature below it. The letter is clear and I will not comment it here- suffices to just paste it her ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 6 2011 - 12:22pm

Germany Ranks First In Internationalism

This from the BBC: “Germany has been named as the most supportive country for overseas students, in an international league table.” If you are a student looking for international experience, you should go to Germany. Why the hell go to the US and pay huge ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Nov 8 2016 - 12:50am