Science & Society

The periodic table goes well with many things, including, apparently, wine. This month's issue of Wired (with plenty of fodder for blogging and articles, so more to come) includes a nugget of glorious information- Washington state vintner Substance ha ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jan 2 2009 - 2:11pm

I, For One, Welcome Our New Republican Overlords

What? Republicans getting a mention on the eve of a scientific Golden Age due to the presence of Democrats in both Congress and the Oval Office, a time when the heavens themselves shall burst forth with funding to drive out the stench of stem cell restric ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 6 2009 - 1:59pm

Stop Global Warming With Bigger Government And Price Controls, Say Economists

A new way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and tackle climate change had been unveiled by a group of economists. Or an old way, depending on how long you have been around. Under their proposals, companies would buy what are in effect permits to poll ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2009 - 11:07pm

Crazy Ideas And Solid Science: Evolutionary Genetics And Eugenics In The 1920s And 30s

Roystonea, the royal palms, are the most striking palms in the Caribbean, and arguably, in the world (though, granted, a talipot palm in flower comes a close second). The name of the genus was coined by Orator F. Cook, an American botanist, in 1900, in ho ...

Article - Ian Ramjohn - Jan 8 2009 - 11:45am

CNN: 24 hour news channel or pimp for HHS?

Was anyone else as dismayed about the supposed choice for surgeon general as I was? ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jan 6 2009 - 10:33pm

Evolgen explains what research professors really do

Evolgen clears up a misconception that drives me nuts: ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 6 2009 - 10:44pm

The Science Bubble

What is a bubble? As is often the case with language, one word can embody multiple meanings. I am referring to the type of bubble emergent from large-scale social phenomena. It is generally a self-reinforcing process, where participants come to believe t ...

Article - Morgan Giddings - Jul 25 2011 - 5:18pm

The creator, or the content?

In my last article, I ended with the observation that: While we cannot reject Cook's scientific contribution simply on the basis of his embrace of racist pseudoscience, we also can't simply ignore it either. Sloppy thinking, after all, is sloppy ...

Blog Post - Ian Ramjohn - Jan 9 2009 - 3:30am

Now Obesity Is Caused By The Recession Too?

Adam Drewnowski, director of the Nutrition Sciences Program at the University of Washington in Seattle, says that an ongoing recession will lead to even more obesity. Drewnowski has a PhD in Psychology but is also Professor of Epidemiology and Adjunct ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 9 2009 - 1:57pm

Book Swapping: Reuse, Recycle, and Rediscover

Once upon a time, I worked in an office that had a beat-up, steel bookcase in the break room. This was our unofficial lending library, where anyone could drop off a book they had read and were willing to part with, and swap it for another selection on the ...

Blog Post - Kimberly Crandell - Jan 9 2009 - 8:44pm