Science & Society

Roger Pielke, Jr. Probably Isn't Buying This Book

Roger Pielke, Jr. is one of the most authentic science communicators around.  When the science is solid, he supports it, regardless of the political or cultural implications, and when it is crap, he ridicules it.   Really, that is what everyone in science ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 16 2011 - 8:17pm

Brian Cox's comments on Science Blogging: One bloggers reply.

Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw commented to the effect that it's wrong in some professional or moral way to blog about science.  (How odd coming from a man who presents science on TV, and another man who authors books.)  Others have posted thoughtful meas ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Nov 19 2011 - 6:20am

OPERATIC CONCERN

OPERA TIC CON CERN-- James Ph.Kotsybar   Oh, little neutral one of tiny mass, anomalous traveller from the sun, you fly through matter that photons can’t pass: Could this explain the races that you’ve won?   ...

Blog Post - James Ph. Kotsybar - Nov 22 2011 - 1:15pm

To share or not to share… before peer review

I attended a science online event a few weeks ago about research articles in the news but not reviewed. Most of the discussions were focused on how we perceive peer-reviewed articles, and those that are not reviewed. Both scientists and science writers at ...

Blog Post - Lori Bystrom - Nov 23 2011 - 3:33am

Of Trees, Fighter Jets, And The Mysteries Of Science Funding

By the time Dr. Maciej Zwieniecki returned to the blackboard, I’d gotten sufficiently lost in the intricacies of fluid dynamics that I wasn’t sure how much more I could absorb from his lecture on vertical water transport in trees.  Still, I could objective ...

Article - Holly Moeller - Dec 3 2011 - 1:11pm

Where Am I?

I looked at my watch after the English gentleman walked away. The half hour discussion had begun with my question, “Excuse me sir, could you please tell me about places to see in this town?” I had to stop this person and ask him because unlike anyone else ...

Blog Post - Animesh Chatterjee - Dec 5 2011 - 10:09pm

Blue, Green, And The Color Of Corporate Personhood

Let me begin by saying that I bleed blue. Not Yankee blue or horseshoe crab copper — IBM Blue. I was raised on a corporate paycheck and through all the years my mother worked for the computing giant (and the months I spent in sales internships with them) I ...

Article - Holly Moeller - Dec 9 2011 - 12:30am

Bloggers Are A Little Less Under The Constitution?

Bad news for bloggers; the courts love to protect journalists, even those shysters who use 'anonymous' sources that have directly led to the rash of modern journalists inventing even Pulitzer Prize-winning stories that were made from whole cloth- ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 8 2011 - 11:55am

Evolution Is Like Porn In Turkey? A Christmas Story

Think Christmas has gotten way too secular?  Turkey may be the place you want to move because they make sure kids stick with religion, though the 2.2% who are not Muslim will be tough to find so your Christmas dinner might be poorly attended.  Knowing how ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 16 2011 - 4:14pm

Benefits Of New EPA Rules Greatly Outweigh Costs, If You Use Pretend Money

What is a paltry $195 billion in real cost versus $1 trillion in potential savings? Fans of 'jobs created or saved' fuzzy economics will love a report by the Joint Center For Political and Economic Studies, which says that six new Environmental P ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 22 2011 - 1:16pm