Science & Society

Scandinavians Rule, Russians Low In English Language Skills

LUCERNE, Switzerland, March 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/---- EF Education First's English Proficiency Index reveals wide gaps in English skills across the world-- EF Education First, the world leader in international education, today unveiled the first comp ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 30 2011 - 4:34pm

Resource Nationalism In Africa

LONDON, April 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- At The Times' Africa CEO Summit on Tuesday 22 March 2011, Brian Menell, Chairman of Kemet Global Ltd., presented to the Natural Resources Session his views on the challenges posed by the increase in "resource ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 5 2011 - 12:09pm

Squid Jiggin' Music

I've just come across a fabulous tune from Newfoundland that captures perfectly the chaos of jigging (fishing with special lures) for squid: Holy smoke! What a scuffle! All hands are excited. 'Tis a wonder to me that there's nobody drowned. ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Apr 5 2011 - 6:23pm

How Citizen Science Might Flourish in Virtual Worlds

Last weekend, Dynamic Patterns Research attended a virtual presentation in  Second Life. It wasn't an imaginary talk, but actually a very real discussion that included  George Djorgovski, a top astrophysics from Caltech and the popular science writer ...

Blog Post - Matthew T. Dearing - Apr 5 2011 - 9:42pm

News Coverage On Japan Nuclear Disaster Setting Records

A solid month of almost daily “there is no problem but today we have big progress on it” is near, and a post on this record was planned to come in a few days time, but today my irony meter exploded, a lowly height has clearly been already reached. Greg La ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Apr 7 2011 - 7:28am

The Cost Of No Science

How much does science cost-- and how much does it cost to turn science off?  I know science can be done cheaply.  After all, you're listening to a guy who is building a satellite in his basement, for fun.  Yet while the satellite is paid for, even I&# ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Apr 11 2011 - 5:54pm

The Wandering Code: The CDC Explains

On March 14, I became aware of the CDC’s consideration of adding a wandering code to the ICD-9-CM in relation to autism and other developmental disabilities. ASAN, an organization created and headed by Ari Ne’eman, created a petition calling for people to ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Apr 9 2011 - 7:28pm

Absolutely No Justification: The Use Of Restraints In A Florida School

Written with Kathleen Leopold and originally posted at Autism Blogs Directory (and edited for a wider audience) ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Apr 15 2011 - 12:52pm

Through A Glass Darkly: PBS's Autism Now And Simon Baron-Cohen's The Science Of Evil

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known.   It is, without a doubt, a truism, that we see the world through our own eyes, and that we cannot but help doing so. We try t ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Apr 17 2011 - 6:31pm

Burn the heretic witches at the stake?

In a recent email, my mother commented how I should help dissuade my younger sister from debating religious ethics on Facebook with our cousin.  I didn't seek out the conversation, but we can vividly imagine the sorts of debates between an atheist and ...

Blog Post - Daid Kahl - Apr 19 2011 - 11:34am