Science & Society

Should Greenpeace Be Writing IPCC Reports?

For climate scientists to make positive inroads in policy regarding a problem we know is only going to get worse- pollution and climate change- they need to police the actions of a few in their circle, most notably the very loud. The Intergovernmental Pane ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 26 2012 - 6:43pm

Many Futures For Science Writing

I see a lot of talk on 'the future of science journalism'-- or science writing, or science funding, or science careers.  I'm guilty of contributing to it myself, but the 'future of' debates miss one point.  There isn't a singl ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jun 17 2011 - 8:07am

Singularity Nothing Unusual Except

This is the extended abstract of an article you cannot read anywhere, which ensures that one can later claim “nobody could have possibly foreseen as the relevant literature clearly shows …” (here more on why).  The article clarifies the singularity concep ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Nov 10 2013 - 3:53pm

Sexting- Why Do Women Do It More?

Sexting, where people send photographs and sexually explicit text messages to titillate them  and perhaps increase the likelihood of a sexual relationship,  is a fairly new phenomenon. The Internet has made the act of infidelity much easier and though sex ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2011 - 11:11am

Marketing for Scientists

Marc Kuchner built the Facebook group ' Marketing for Scientists ' to help drag the usually reticent science population into this century's culture of social media and the rise of the individual.  Now out for pre-order is his book, "Mar ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jun 24 2011 - 8:56pm

Respectfully drawing your attention to...

How could I miss it- and you did too. A very comprehensive article on standardization as a way to reduce environmental pollution has appeared here, and has almost gone unnoticed. I think it is worth reading, if only to acknowledge the existence of this iss ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 26 2011 - 4:16pm

How Not To Get Your Book Deal

The good news-- I am writing a four eBook series with O'Reilly (publishers of MAKE) on four Do-It-Yourself Space topics!  Woo hoo! Now the advice portion.  I occasionally have a habit of taking a more difficult path.  Here is that difficult path.  For ...

Article - Project Calliope - Jun 28 2011 - 4:40pm

Skepticism Of Stories To Good To Be True

On a recent post, I was asked how facilitated communication supporters explain the tests that show FC doesn't work. On something so easily shown to be false, why does this persist? Why are major organizations like the Autism Society (and apparently Au ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Jun 29 2011 - 9:20am

Anti-Science Positions That Threaten American Food Security

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s federal regulatory process is stifling commercial investment in the development of genetically engineered animals for food, warns a task force led by a U.C. Davis animal scientist, and that could have serious implic ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2011 - 5:06pm

Health Care Reform Will Be Worse For Illegal Immigrants

Here's a way to make the bloated costs of health care reform seem more palatable to opponents- it will knock 220,000 illegal immigrants out of the health care system just in California alone. A new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy R ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2011 - 9:15am