Science & Society
- Discrimination Will Never Not Happen But 'Gender Fatigue' Leads To Diminishing Returns
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No country is immune from gender discrimination, says the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Report, and most companies feel like they are gender neutral and perhaps are- but because people and perceptions are different it's dificult to say what i ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2009 - 12:19pm
- New Giant Squid Show Airing in 2010
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Mark your calendars! A Japanese broadcaster is joining forces with the Science Channel and renowned giant squid biologist Tsunemi Kubodera (the guy who went fishing with a long string and a bag of shrimp) on an "international quest to find and film a ...
Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 12 2009 - 7:10pm
- Philosophies of Evaluation (and the New OMB Directive)
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It often falls to the management scientist to evaluate how well a program (in the private, non-profit, or government sector) is performing. There is a great number of ways to go about this task. This article discusses some of the ways to evaluate a prog ...
Blog Post - Fred Phillips - Oct 13 2009 - 12:50am
- seaQuest and the Giant Not-Squid
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Have you ever known--I mean, been absolutely certain--that you were going to die? That's how seaQuest 's Lt. Krieg felt, when a sea monster grabbed his submersible and gave it a good shaking. He survived, and made it back to the main ship, where ...
Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 13 2009 - 11:57pm
- Public Risk: The Trust Factor
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It seems simple enough to answer the question whether something poses a risk or not. The answers can only be "yes", "no", or "we don't know". A "yes" response would then be qualified by the probability or like ...
Article - Gerhard Adam - Oct 14 2009 - 6:50pm
- Sean Carroll is National Book Award Finalist
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One of the best books on evolution to come out in this year of Darwin celebrations, Sean Carroll's Remarkable Creatures, is a National Book Award finalist. ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 15 2009 - 1:38pm
- The Framing Impact On The National Health Care Debate
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When Republicans were told, as part of a recent study, that diabetes results from social factors that mitigate personal responsibility, like a lack of neighborhood grocery stores or government-funded places to exercise, they were not inclined to want to en ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 15 2009 - 7:54pm
- Nobels Prizes and Corporate Labs
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I'm inclined to agree with this: The problem the country faces is that the conditions in which Charles Kao, Willard Boyle, and George Smith made their breakthroughs are harder to come by today. Kao, for example, made his breakthroughs in fiber optics ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 16 2009 - 1:37pm
- Balloon Boy: Just how does one raise children to be interested in science?
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The "unusual", "eccentric", extraordinary Heene family. It seems clear to me that these people have been through 24 hours of hell thanks to the cynical media. Watching them on TV I ask myself, how would one raise children who you woul ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jul 25 2011 - 5:27pm
- Mouse n Monkey Vet---- Intro
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Fact: virtually no new medicine or surgery will come to the American public any time soon unless it has first made the rounds of animal laboratories. Every piece of medical news you read is but a few steps removed from animal studies. And yet, despite t ...
Blog Post - Larry Carbone - Oct 16 2009 - 7:18pm
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