Science & Society

Alterted by a British blog, I read the following in the New York Post. A New Frontier for Title IX: Science Is this for real? ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Apr 17 2009 - 1:43pm

Sue Your Parents For Your Genes

It is said that people go into psychology to understand themselves...well, one of my main reasons why I went into genetics was to prove that I was not related to my family. That, of course, didn't happen- The Addams Family is a more functional collect ...

Article - Michael Windelspecht - Apr 19 2009 - 8:23pm

The European Geophysical Union General Assembly in Vienna 2009

Bringing together more than 9.000 geoscientists from all over Europe and the rest of the world into one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, the European Geophysical Union (EGU) annual General Assembly takes place in ...

Blog Post - Bente Lilja Bye - Apr 19 2009 - 4:33pm

Personalized Medicine Gets An Early Christmas Correlation/Causation Miracle

Cancer patients can survive longer under treatments based on their individual genetic profiles, according to a nationwide study released jointly today by Phoenix-area healthcare organizations. The study says that molecular profiling of patients can identi ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2009 - 8:55pm

Garth Sundem on CBS News' "The Early Show" tomorrow morning

Just in case you didn't know, Scientific Blogging geek fave Garth Sundem will make a guest appearance on The Early Show (your local CBS channel) tomorrow AM, in promotion of his new book. How will he wow the world this time? I don't want to ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 21 2009 - 1:24pm

Sloppy Terms Inspired by Physics Envy

There are a lot of biologists out there with physics and engineering envy, and it shows in the occasional awkward and sometimes downright ridiculous borrowing of terminology. Take the term 'integrated circuit' for example. The term refers to putt ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Apr 21 2009 - 4:07pm

European Geophysical Union EGU- Earthquakes and Tsunamis

At the European Geophysical Union EGU, Jochen Zschau from GeoForschungZentrum GFZ in Germany presented his Sergey Soloviev medal lecture, Meeting the Challenge of Earthquake Risk Globalisation: Towards the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) on the first day of ...

Blog Post - Bente Lilja Bye - Mar 24 2011 - 3:20pm

Rita Levi-Montalcini: 100 Years Old and Still Going Strong

Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1986, turns 100 years old today: she was born on April 22nd, 1909-before World War I had begun! " Ok, " you might say, " she's p robably bedridden and demented by now." Not in the ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 24 2009 - 3:51pm

Rita Levi-Montalcini: At 100 Years Old This Nobel Laureate Is Still Prodding Nerves

On the occasion of her centennial, Rita Levi-Montalcini addressed the crowd with the gentle tone of a grandmother and the confident cadence of a statesman. At 100 years, she has an energy that many younger people might envy. She divides her workdays betw ...

Article - Stephanie Pulford - Apr 24 2009 - 3:50pm

When Republicans Don’t Know Squat About Science And Are Proud Of It

If you are even a teensy little bit into reason and rationality, then you are likely to wince every time you open a newspaper, surf the web or watch television. The wince of the week definitely came from an interview that ABC’s George Stephanopoulos conduc ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - May 1 2009 - 6:11pm