Science & Society
- Grassroots Science: An Article Wishlist For The Journal Of Scientific Communication
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I’m fascinated by the contributions of researchers outside of the mainstream— the monk whose bean garden seeded modern genetics, the bicycle mechanic brothers who built a flying machine in their garage, and all of those amateur stargazers who found superno ...
Article - Stephanie Pulford - May 28 2009 - 5:22pm
- Murder Capital of the World
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Which of the following Latin American countries has the highest murder rate? a. Nicaragua b. Mexico c. Venezuela d. Jamaica If you answered "Mexico", you made a very reasonable choice. In the past year, violence has been so rampant there that mur ...
Blog Post - Randy Borum - Jun 3 2009 - 1:17pm
- EU legislates (again!)
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An indignant letter in this month's Chemistry World has drawn my attention to a forthcoming ban on the use of dichloromethane, except by the most professional of professionals. EU sidesteps Reach to ban paint stripping solvent goes the relevant artic ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jun 1 2009 - 1:30pm
- Privatize Foster Care And Help Kids More, Says Study
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In these days of jaw-dropping trillion-dollar budgets and deficits along with current retirement obligations 7X the size of our economy, $6.3 billion may not sound like much. But, hey, a billion here and a billion there, and pretty soon you are talking ab ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2009 - 3:01pm
- Air France Flight 447 Crash Circumstances Point To Terrorism, Says International Relations Professor
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Speculation continues about the crash of Air France jetliner flight 447 on its transatlantic journey. A University of Indianapolis international relations expert says recent events point to the possibility of terrorism. Although there have been no claims ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2009 - 7:43pm
- Diversity Makes You Smarter
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The encouragement (or requirement) of diversity sometimes gets labeled reverse racism, under the assumption that encourgaing diversity is only about somehow making up for past injustices by discriminating against today's white men who may never have t ...
Article - Michael White - Jun 5 2009 - 1:20pm
- The Alliance to Rescue Civilization is REAL!
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I'm a bit of a movie buff. I especially like science fiction movies. I'm also a little paranoid and keen on conspiracy theories. It should therefore come to no surprise that I was sucked into the viral marketing of Roland Emerich's new 2012 ...
Blog Post - Brian Taylor - Jun 4 2009 - 11:31pm
- TV As Teacher
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The media is a powerful teacher of children and adolescents, an editorial in JAMA says. But what are they learning, and how can it be modified? "When children and adolescents spend more time with media than they do in school or in any leisure-time act ...
Article - Becky Jungbauer - Jun 5 2009 - 1:18pm
- Science Bloggers as Undercover Journalists
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At most biomedical research conferences, you hear talks filled with published or almost published materials, which is unfortunate, because it's a lost opportunity for colleagues to talk about the problems their confronting with work that's in its ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Jun 5 2009 - 2:43pm
- Snow's Two Cultures
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The 50th anniversary of C.P. Snow's famous Rede lecture on the "Two Cultures" has been marked this year, around the web and sometimes in real life too, with various symposia and blogfests. I've personally got nothing to contribute to t ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Jun 7 2009 - 11:50pm
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