Science & Society

Let's send The Fossil Huntress to Antarctica!

Look what I found on Quark Expedition website! http://www.blogyourwaytoantarctica.com/blogs/view/257 In a nutshell, Quark is sponsoring a competition to send someone on an eco-cruise of Antarctica in order to blog for a week.  The Fossil Huntress apparentl ...

Blog Post - Stephanie Pulford - Jul 3 2009 - 8:22pm

How to Think, Say, or Do Precisely the Worst Thing for Any Occasion

Who hasn't thought about starting a food fight at a formal dinner function? Telling your interviewer about some embarrassing personal story? The worst thing to do at the wrong time? And then the internal fight starts: "The impulse increases to a ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 7 2009 - 2:00pm

Oops- What Happens If Your Government Sex Education Program Increases Teen Pregnancy?

The Young People's Development Programme (YPDP) in England, a government-backed youth development pilot program aimed at reducing teenage pregnancies, drunkenness and cannabis use not only didn't reduce teenage pregnancies or drunkenness or marij ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2009 - 11:04pm

Photo Shoots That Should Never Have Happened

Photo Shoots that Should Never Be Done I'm sure I'm not the first to blog about this, but while I was out of the loop for a few days, someone made another hopeless attempt to make nerds look cool: Rock Stars of Science. Here's what it's ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jul 8 2009 - 1:13pm

Ice-T: refreshing drink, rapper, and...PhRMA shill?

PhRMA is trying to up their street cred with the newest star pulled into its galaxy: rapper/actor Ice-T. Honestly, I like Ice-T. As one of the original hip-hoppers and pioneer of gangsta rap, he actuallly had some creativity and intelligence; he's spo ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 9 2009 - 9:19am

Is There A Nerd Gene?

Michael White recently blogged about Rock Stars of Science (July 8), which is an educational effort to attract kids to careers in science.  (Michael characterized this as “another hopeless attempt to make nerds look cool.”)  ...

Article - Dave Deamer - Jul 9 2009 - 10:55am

The Public Praises Scientists But Scientists Don't Think Much Of The Public- Or Science Journalism

The public looks up to scientists but scientists tend to look down on the public; and science journalism gets a lot of the blame.  So say the findings of a new report by the Pew Research Center for the People&the Press which finds that overwhelming maj ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2010 - 3:59pm

Is this how science journalism works?

I'd love to hear from readers who are science journalists. PZ Myers has posted this story from one of his readers who's trying to start a career as a freelance science journalist: ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jul 10 2009 - 12:17pm

Scientists rate higher than physicians, clergy, and lawyers

OK, the lawyer thing is no surprise.  Check out this table from the recent Pew survey on science and the public that's been generating buzz on the blogs: Savor the irony: in the US we fight bitter court battles over evolution, and yet scientists win o ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jul 10 2009 - 1:00pm

The Daytime Astronomer on Journal Editing

Here's a short tale about scientific journal editing, to complement my lament about the lack of Editors in Web2.0.  At the risk of being a scientific pariah, I believe some works can be overedited. After much polishing at my home institute, I submitte ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jul 11 2009 - 7:53am