Science & Society

A pleasure it is, when Chemistry World drops through my letterbox each month, to read the Historical Profile therein. This month (June 2011) featured the discovery of nitrous oxide, aka laughing gas, in No Laughing Matter, by John Mann, emeritus professor ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jun 8 2011 - 11:16am

Machines of Tender Loving Grace (3)

Here, for completeness, is the last in this group about the BBC series All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace A series of films exploring the idea that we have been colonised by the machines that we have built, seeing everything in the world today ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jun 7 2011 - 11:46am

(Un)Biased?: Gould Vs. Morton

Samuel George Morton (1799 – 1851) was an American physician and scientist, perhaps best known for his Crania Americana, in which he described the results of the measurements, with a focus on cranial capacity, he performed on his ‘American Golgotha’, a co ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Jun 10 2011 - 11:11am

Washington Or Alabama- Who Is More Pro Science?

If I ask a science audience to guess, off the tops of our collective heads, which state would hold an irrational science position that was not only boneheaded but downright dangerous to each other and all of America, would you guess Alabama or Washington? ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 9 2011 - 9:45pm

A Review Of Offit And Moser's Vaccines And Your Child & Thoughts On Reducing Parental Fears

Before getting to the review, I thought I'd share some of the lighter side of what comes from actively engaging people who think vaccines are responsible for all of today's ills. You know you've spent too much time on the internet when you ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Jun 10 2011 - 9:20am

NSF Stopping Death Of Science Content?

Did science in newspapers die? By 2009, USA Today, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal ended their Science sections, leaving just the New York Times as a major paper with a dedicated science section. CNN cut their entire science and tech tea ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jun 10 2011 - 11:05am

Monkey Menstruation On Meth Or The "Biblical Power To Cure" Of The NIH?

Science can't catch a break this week. A site devoted to ridiculing Democrats is faux outraged that the NIH funded $3.6 million to study the menstruation cycles of rhesus monkeys on any number of addictive drugs. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 10 2011 - 8:18pm

Germany Abolishes Itself

Germany shortens school ("turbo abi") and abolishes mandatory military training at the same time! This year, those that otherwise would have marched to the shooting range instead squeeze in between the seats taken by immigrants and the standing ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jan 17 2016 - 9:51pm

Is It Still Sexism If No One Notices?

If you're in an older generation and a female calls another female "dude", it may seem strange to you. It happens all of the time and should be a sign that sexism is less today but a recent study from Psychology of Women Quarterly says s ub ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2011 - 12:04pm

Squid Sneaks Into Newsletter

A while back I mentioned a project that was keeping me away from the blog... well, it's done now! I was hired by the director of Hopkins Marine Station, where I did my PhD, to write their annual newsletter. It took my relationship with Illustrator to ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Jun 15 2011 - 11:26am