Science & Society

Survey: More Than Half Of U.K., France And Germany Adults Are Gamers

United Kingdom has the Highest Ratio of Gamers in Europe, With 68% of men and 59% of Women Playing Games.   PopCap Games today announced the results of the National Gamers Surveys which found more than half of all adults in the United Kingdom, France and ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 8 2011 - 6:08pm

Scientists And Family Life- The Price They Pay

Almost 50% of female scientists and 25% of male scientists at the nation's top research universities say career kept them from having as many children as they wanted, something they might do over given the chance. As the saying goes, no one on their d ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2011 - 11:05am

The Education Effect On Religious Belief

Our more militant brethren in the science and science media community paint all religious people as intellectually immature but AAAS surveys show nearly 40 percent of AAAS members are religious and a new University of Nebraska-Lincoln study challenges the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2011 - 11:57am

Scientists And Politics- Objectivity Or Reverse Snobbery?

A recent NY Times article echoes what I said last week in a meeting about a Science 2.0 television pilot- incredibly literate people who know a lot about science can't name a scientist. It's certainly true.  Adult science literacy has tripled sin ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 9 2011 - 3:02pm

Academics About God

Science and religion. Often mutual suspicion, sometimes plain hostility, seldom a workable combination. When the active inquiry in science meets the passive belief in religion, worldviews…ideologies clash, usually leaving no progress in understanding in t ...

Blog Post - Gunnar De Winter - Aug 10 2011 - 6:27am

Scientists Versus Journalists- Again

Science 2.0 was founded because, contrary to the beliefs of some scientists and some journalists, the public is really, really smart.  And they know a lot of science, they just frame it through politics more than they used to because scientists and journal ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 10 2011 - 6:13pm

Ambiguous Science and Politics

As some of you may be aware, this year the U.S. Congress finally passed the Zadroga Act which will compensate the first responders to the 9/11 attack as well as those that worked at the site for the following months for medical problems arising as a result ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Aug 10 2011 - 9:41pm

Lure of the Professor

As I wrote on facebook (for the sign of a professional writer is 'reuse words often'): It's official! As of today I am Professor Antunes, an aerospace engineering assistant professor at Capitol College (capitol-college.edu), newest member of ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Aug 13 2011 - 10:16am

Did The Franco-Scottish Alliance Against England Ever End?

Here's a trivia question; what's the longest alliance in history? Unless you went by the title, you were probably stumped.  Maybe you believe it is England and Portugal at 638 years.   You were unlikely to guess Scotland and France but a Universi ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2011 - 9:31pm

The State Of Science Outreach: Is It Bad?

I have said many times I think people are terrifically smart; they know a lot of science, though they tend to frame it through their politics.     The numbers bear me out- science literacy in adults has tripled since I went to college but even that was fra ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 17 2011 - 7:13pm