Science & Society

Science Bloggers as Undercover Journalists

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

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

The not-so-silent return of Chauvinism

From the front page of an operational circular of the CERN laboratories: In the interest of readability, this circular has been drafted using the masculine gender only. However, use of the masculine gender should be understood to refer to both sexes. The p ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 8 2009 - 2:32pm

Technology Plus Caffeine Linked To Less Sleep And More Obesity In Teens (And Boys More Than Girls)

According to a research abstract presented  at SLEEP 2009, adolescent obesity is associated with having less sleep and eduction in sleep could be related to a higher caffeine intake, more hours of technology use and increased symptoms of sleep disorders su ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2009 - 7:51am

World Science Festival And Edward O. Wilson's Special Birthday Surprise

The second World Science Festival kicked off at Lincoln Center in New York City last evening with a birthday tribute to Edward O. Wilson, everyone's favorite ant man, and science fans fron the culture world along with, presumably, science fans from th ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 11 2010 - 2:43pm

World Science Festival And James Watson: "Biology Doesn't Need String Theory"

I wrote about the opening of the World Science Festival 2009 and Edward O. Wilson's 80th birthday at the Lincoln Center in New York City but he was not the only august personage in attendance.  Present to give tribute to him was also molecular biologi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 5 2009 - 12:35pm

Copyright Laws And Fair Use Doctrine- Are The Courts Against Bloggers?

Is Internet expression a fundamental right?   Certainly a subset of the modern generation has  demonstrated an irrational sense of entitlement about free content, to the detriment of media companies that have tried to provide it like the New York Times, bu ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2009 - 9:28am

The Last Coiner- Yorkshire's Answer To The 18th Century 'Credit Crunch'

When a steep decline in the wool trade prompted an 18th century credit crunch, folks in Yorkshire took up a new (and dangerous) business venture- counterfeiting. In the 18th century, coining was a treasonable offense and therefore punishable by death but i ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2009 - 5:29pm

Girls Remake Anime Films And Reinforce Stereotypes

Girls are gathering online to remake action-oriented Japanese animation videos geared toward males- you know, because males are genetically engineered to like action cartoons with bounty hunter vampires who need to kill their half-brothers that run an evil ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2009 - 9:30am

Should There Be More Religious Control Of Banking? Asks University Of Leicester

The University of Leicester’s School of Management wonders if more religious control of banks might have lessened the impact of the global financial crisis.   Buying into the notion that a 'sub-prime' housing market led to the latest global finan ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2009 - 10:37am