Science & Society

Incremental Cost: More Than An Increment Of Trouble

Last week I posted a column on cost accounting. But I didn’t say it was about cost accounting, and nearly eight hundred people read it.   Let’s try a (ahem) “scientific” experiment, starting with this announcement: This column is about cost accounting too ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Aug 10 2009 - 10:06am

World Of Warcraft Is Antisocial? I Think Not

I recently read an article regarding a specific therapist's idea for a movement to treat World of Warcraft players with video game addiction.  These types of articles are not uncommon, World of Warcraft (WoW) currently has millions of subscribers wor ...

Article - Christopher Lysy - Aug 11 2009 - 5:12pm

Good Points, Carl Sagan!

I finally got around to reading Carl Sagan’s  The Variety of Scientific Experience, a volume edited by his wife, Ann Druyan, and based on a series of Gifford Lectures on Natural Theology that Carl delivered in 1985 at the University of Glasgow. ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Aug 11 2009 - 5:08pm

Science Communication To Take The Stage At Annual AAAS Meeting In San Francisco

Folsom, CA – August 11, 2009 – On Monday, August 17th at 1:30PM in Hensill Hall 113, attendees of the 90th Annual Pacific Division Meeting of the AAAS in San Francisco will get to learn about the latest efforts in science communication from some of the bri ...

Article - Community Connect... - Aug 13 2009 - 11:53am

Americans Are Divided On Government Health Care But It Skews On Party Lines

A group of researchers from Indiana University's Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research (CHPPR) say they have found that support for government health insurance for individuals under age 65 remains virtually the same regardless of how t ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2009 - 11:17am

Blogs That Eat Newspapers For Lunch

Michael Massing at The NY Review of Books weighs in on the future of news organizations in the era of blogs: ...

Article - Michael White - Aug 13 2009 - 9:30pm

Interlude: 2 Webtoons on What Is Science

I'm in the midst of 2 proposals right now (one satellite, one book), so I decided to take a break to share two web cartoons about science.  One is from Cowbirds in Love, the other from Abstruse Goose.  At one point I had a clever essay to go with the ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Aug 14 2009 - 2:33pm

Illegal Wireless Access Legislation Hurting Legal Broadband Too

The UK Government, in its Digital Britain report in June, made a commitment that every home in the UK should have broadband access by 2012. A range of technologies, including wireless, will be used to deliver the basic broadband. But the same government an ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2009 - 10:15am

University Science Writing Competition

Last week we revealed the Top 10 Schools for Science based on the results of a 3-year study performed by US News&World Report. The study ranked the nation’s best science graduate programs, based upon the results of surveys sent to academics in Biologic ...

Article - Community Connect... - Feb 24 2010 - 6:53pm

My Evening With Paranormalists

A few days ago a local skeptic group here in Brooklyn organized a roundtable discussion on the concept of the paranormal. We thought this was going to be a chat about what people mean by that term, how one goes about investigating alleged cases of paranorm ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Aug 18 2009 - 12:58pm