Science & Society
- A Top 10 Science Stories Of 2011 List
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Los Alamos National Laboratory's top 10 science stories of 2011 include alternative energy research, world record magnetic fields, disease tracking, the study of Mars, climate change, fuel cells, solar wind, and magnetic reconnection. Mars Habitabil ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 23 2011 - 11:03am
- Partisanship, Simplicity-Seeking, And Maladaptation
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“Malicious,” “diatribe,” and “preposterous” are words recently thrown at me. (How remarkable that I lived nearly 60 years before drawing this kind of vitriol. Maybe I haven’t been assertive enough!) When a scientific question has political implications, pe ...
Article - Fred Phillips - Dec 27 2011 - 6:44pm
- 10 Key Science Events Of 2011
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The previous year has forced us to confront difficult science questions: Was processing patents Einstein’s real strength? Are there any other planets out there like Earth? Why is the universe composed of matter instead of antimatter? 2011 had a bumper cro ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2011 - 6:31pm
- What does one mean by equality?
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One nice features of Science 2.0 is the way it links to Science Codex and Real Clear Science. The latter of these sometimes directs me to a journal called The Atlantic, in which I read What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success The S ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 31 2011 - 12:20pm
- Chesterton and Evolution
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As some of you are aware, I am a fan of the writings of G.K.Chesterton. In 1903, in an essay The Return of the Angels, he came out with this surprising statement: ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jan 1 2012 - 1:41pm
- ABC Investigates Facilitated Communication And The Wendrow Case
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In the autism community, there are plenty of heated opinions, which lead to even more heated attacks against those who believe differently. Some of the fiercest attacks come from those who believe in debunked treatments like facilitated communication. No o ...
Article - Kim Wombles - Jan 7 2012 - 10:19am
- God Of The Grant Gaps
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A new study has used an interesting metric to highlight their concern about a disconnect between government funding of biomedical research and young investigators; Nobel Prizes. As has been noted here numerous times, and by me at various talks, the averag ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 10 2012 - 3:41pm
- Science's Parasitic Overlords?
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[Their] monopolistic practices make Walmart look like a corner shop and Rupert Murdoch a socialist- George Monbiot Want to know where a huge amount of taxpayers' money invested into science goes? Straight into the pockets of publishing companies ...
Article - Oliver Knevitt - Jan 13 2012 - 2:43pm
- Peter Bell's Appointment To The President's Council For People With Intellectual Disabilities
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On January 10, 2012, President Obama announced appointments to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. ...
Article - Kim Wombles - Jan 13 2012 - 2:34pm
- A Doctor Refuses to Okay Transplant for Child with Cognitive Disability (Updated)
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We're used to outrage in the disability community, of hearing or reading a story and running with it. Sometimes, it's to attack and condemn other parents or individuals, but sometimes, when the disability community works well, it's to gather ...
Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Mar 16 2012 - 2:25pm
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