Science & Society

Self-Plagiariasm Is The New Prius

Self-plagiariasm is big news these days.  A short while ago, former ACS president Ron Breslow had an article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society pulled- not because he claimed dinosaurs might be ruling other planets, but because he re-used work ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 28 2012 - 4:30am

Curious George Will Give You Lung Cancer

Sigmund Freud wrote in   The Interpretation of Dreams that "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"- he meant not everything was about sex, which must really frustrate evolutionary psychology grad students (1), being as he is the most famous psychiatr ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 17 2012 - 4:59pm

Organic matter in the soil and organic farming

Biodiversity loss and deforestation in tropical climatic conditions is sustained by the natural regeneration process during monsoon rains but what I observed this Saturday is not permissible or sustainable.  I participated in the sad demise and funeral of ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 1 2012 - 1:27pm

Carbon Markets, Taxes or Revolution

Under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiated at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, nations committed to developing and implementing climate protection measures "appropriate for the specific conditions of each Party." In a ...

Blog Post - Omar Chedda - Jul 6 2012 - 11:22am

Welcome Back To 1978: Nuclear Winter Rebranded As War-Related Climate Change

Greenpeace activists stuck in the 1970s, you need to take a lesson from Madonna; always be reinventing yourself. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 2 2012 - 9:51pm

So this is what it's come to...

So, currently, the US is hosting the world's largest naval excercises from Hawaii (RIMPAC 2012). The New Zealand navy, amongst the other 22 nations participating, has been refused entry to Pearl Harbour, instead being made to moor its two participatin ...

Blog Post - Quentin Rowe - Jul 3 2012 - 5:05am

Global Warming Is Back, Baby

You remember when temperatures became really moderate and every heat wave could no longer be called global warming because we were not warning.  We were enduring climate change instead. That makes some sense, instability is going to occur when things get w ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 4 2012 - 11:20am

Creationism at Giant's Causeway, courtesy of the National Trust

Are you bored of the Higgsteria yet? Well, here's another issue that needs your attention. The Giant’s causeway is one of the most beautiful examples of columnar jointing in the world, formed during the Tertiary igneous activity in the UK. It was form ...

Blog Post - Oliver Knevitt - Jul 5 2012 - 10:28am

Science Journalism: Not Buying The Higgs Hype

I stayed up late (California) to watch the Higgs announcement and posted various thoughts of my own, and comments from the presentations, on my Twitter feed.  ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 7 2013 - 1:29am

Craziest Higgs Stories

When I wrote about watching the Higgs discovery, I chided scientists on Twitter for over-reaching regarding what was being said and lauded science journalists for showing some moderation, but that does not mean all journalists could resist being silly.  An ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 17 2012 - 9:53am