Science & Society

The Third Player Hypothesis

The Third Player Hypothesis Ever since our first ancestor had enough brain cells to ponder something more than the flavor of roast dinosaur, we have pondered over the why of our world: the real causes of observed effects. At one time it was thought that m ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 25 2010 - 10:36pm

Pitfalls Of Science Journalism

Pitfalls Of Science Journalism How do we fix it so that journalists can again be the 'trusted guides' they used to be? If you are going to write about science and want the public to trust what you are saying to them then you need to understand t ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 26 2010 - 12:22pm

10 Discoveries In 10 Minutes

Here are the top ten science headlines ripped, raw and bleeding, from this month's huge AAAS uber-science meeting. The National Association of Science Writers sponsored 10 undergraduate science journalists. Here is their coverage, arranged using my ow ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jul 27 2010 - 9:46am

The importance of proper controls (is homosexuality an illness?)

This American Life from Chicago Public Radio has an interesting story about the history of psychiatry with regards to homosexuality: why homosexuality used to be considered a mental illness, and why the psychiatrists changed their mind. ...

Blog Post - Adam Retchless - Feb 28 2010 - 1:39pm

Evidence, Or No Evidence; That Is The Question

Jack of Kent updated his blog at the weekend to highlight one aspect of the BCA v Singh case: what is evidence? Both science and law rely on evidence and yet they use the same word in subtly different ways. For a scientist to state that "there is no e ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 1 2010 - 8:36am

Class and Science Education

There has been much discussion lately about the ignorance of matters scientific among the public.  With this is mind, here are some thoughts from Blighty.   I have just been speaking to my friend O, who is quite a senior figure in science education.  He ha ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Mar 1 2010 - 2:05pm

Mathematical Formula Predicts Success On The Baseball Field

Iowa State University physicist Kerry Whisnant has developed a mathematical formula that he says predicts how well baseball teams will perform on the field. The new formula is based on work of Bill James, the baseball author and statistician who inspired s ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:03pm

The Richard Dawkins Forum: Evolution Or Extinction?

Richard Dawkins should write a paper entitled "How not to run a Web 2.0 website." Perhaps apt that he is now the former Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, as he has shown little understanding of his public, which has also ...

Article - Richard Mankiewicz - Feb 11 2011 - 10:56am

Rehire The Journalists! Audiences Want More Science

A new report released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project suggests that news has evolved from a consumable product to a participatory experience. Technology has not only changed how, where and when people get their news, but now allows the consum ...

Article - Lauren Rugani - Mar 2 2010 - 5:27pm

Global Bureaucracy, Global Warming- Or Why I Dislike The Nobel Prize

This is an English translation of a potpourri of a number of recent papers and reports by one of the most interesting modern Russian journalists, Julia Latynina. I have just added a number of related thoughts. ...

Article - Evgeni Starikov - Mar 14 2010 - 1:39pm