Science & Society

Living Together Before Marriage Linked To More Unhappiness

University of Denver researchers say that couples who live together before they are engaged have a higher chance of getting divorced than those who wait until they are married to cohabitate. In addition, couples who lived together before engagement and the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2009 - 1:38pm

Life of a Blogging Researcher

I can relate to what Isis is saying When I first told a more senior colleague what I was up to, he told me, "Isis, I don't care if you are building model trains in your spare time and then blowing them up. Just keep the data coming." That is ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jul 13 2009 - 3:10pm

Visual Thinking By Scientists

A page of interesting thoughts and great quotes on visual thinking in science: [Feynman]: The next great era of awakening of human intellect may well produce a method of understanding the qualitative content of equations. Today we cannot. Today we cannot s ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jul 14 2009 - 9:36pm

Missing Links: Barriers to Academic Blogging

In the past several months I have been intellectually consumed with the idea of academic blogging and its potential to one day change the face of academic communication.  I say "one day" because although there are increasing numbers of academic b ...

Blog Post - Christopher Lysy - Jul 14 2009 - 12:56pm

Bill Gates Does Another Service For Humanity

This almost makes up for cursing the world with Windows Vista: "Gates Puts Feynman Lectures Online Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates believes that if he had been able to watch physicist Richard Feynman lecture on physics in 1964 his life might have played ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jul 15 2009 - 12:38pm

Chris Mooney Versus P.Z. Myers And The State Of "Unscientific America- Continued

I'm assuming most of you here have not followed the ongoing board war between ex-Scienceblogs and current Discover bloggers Chris Mooney/Sheril Kirshenbaum and current Sciencblogs tour de force PZ Myers. To save you all that time it would take to read ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 15 2009 - 3:52pm

Science invited to the Emmys!

Yes! Science is finally wiggling its way in to that sweet spot of American culture, television. Exhibit A: the Emmy nominations, announced today. I've never paid attention to this before but was suckered in by a headline about Family Guy (the first an ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 16 2009 - 9:48am

Sufi Mystics And Science Understanding

Today's tale looks at whether ancient Sufi mystics predicted the current climate for science in the Western World.  Some see science as an ivory tower pursuit, others as a way of achieving technological advancement, still others as a path to personal ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jul 17 2009 - 9:07pm

Apollo 11 Hoax- Sometimes Roswell That Ends Well

In case you've been living under a rock, you probably know that Monday is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.   I don't remember seeing it on TV when I was a lad, though I am told I did (I do remember watching the live liftoff of ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 18 2019 - 10:38am

Scientific Misconduct And The Nature Of Science

I just finished reading an interesting book review by physicist Martin Blume in a recent issue of Nature. Blume was reviewing Eugenie Samuel Reich’s provocative book “Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World,” and the ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jul 18 2009 - 1:15pm