Science & Society

AirAsia 8501- News, Rumours, Facts And FACs

AirAsia 8501- News, Rumours, Facts And FACs Until such time as an official report is issued it will be difficult for both professionals and ordinary members of the public to determine what most probably happened during the last flight of AirAsia 8501.  Th ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 3 2015 - 7:30pm

TransAsia ATR 72 Crashes Into Keelung River

TransAsia ATR 72 Crashes Into Keelung River A twin engined ATR 72-600 turboprop suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff from Taipei Songshan Airport, destination the Kinmen islands.  The plane, which was less than one year old according to Flight ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 4 2015 - 10:43am

2014 European Astronomy Journalism Prize Winner Announced

The 2014 European Astronomy Journalism Prize has been announced.   Now in its third year, the prize looks to reward excellence displayed in the field by professional journalists as well as students of both astronomy and journalism. It is awarded by Science ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2015 - 10:00am

AAAS Officially Makes Itself An Arm Of The Democratic Party

The worst kept secret in science media, what one honest liberal blogger called The White Elephant In The Room, is its overwhelming partisanship. It's easy to rationalize that. If Republicans are anti-science then naturally the biggest defenders and ch ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 23 2019 - 11:04am

TransAsia GE235 crash- Plane Missed Power Cables

TransAsia GE235 crash- Plane Missed Power Cables The Transasia ATR 72-600 which crashed into the Keelung river narrowly missed flying into high voltage power cables strung across the Keelung river.  Flight into those high voltage power distribution cables ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 7 2015 - 11:06pm

Citations: The Intellectual Premier League

Bronks/Wikimedia Commons By Mark Beeson, Professor of International Politics at University of Western Australia Of the many things academics obsess about, few rank more highly than citation counts. We all like to think our work is at least read by our pee ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 8 2015 - 9:00am

Lift The Ban On Oil And Gas Exports And Strengthen The US

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Article - The Conversation - Feb 10 2015 - 3:32pm

TransAsia GE235 Accident- Taxi, Transmission Lines and FDR details

The TransAsia GE235 Accident- The Taxi, the Transmission Lines and the FDR- some details The skills of the pilots of GE235 have been questioned.  The mere fact that Transasia is requiring its pilots to undergo tests is not proof of pilot error.  It is mos ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 11 2015 - 6:25pm

Men Do Want Commitment...If Women Are Scarce

The gender stereotype is that women want commitment and men want sex- but a study of the Makushi people in Guyana upends that, finding that men more likely to seek long-term relationships. Why? Because women are in short supply so a lack of commitment is ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2015 - 2:18pm

Porn Or Not? Fifty Shades Of Grey Anxiety Was A 17th Century Worry Too

Is Fifty Shades Of Grey porn, or not? © Universal Pictures The imminent release of Fifty Shades of Grey has already provoked widespread protest, although the protesters have not actually seen it. The Guardian recently proclaimed: “This is not a porn film. ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 12 2015 - 9:30pm