Science & Society
- Uh Oh: Member Turnover And Diversity Essential For Online Communities
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If you want to have staying power on the Internet, you need to have turnover, says a new analysis published in the Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work. Not only do you need to be 'heterogeneous', you need ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 8 2010 - 10:55pm
- Can you sabotage your career by blogging?
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Do scientists hate scientists who talk to the public? From an old piece by Jared Diamond: ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Mar 8 2010 - 4:01pm
- Laboratory Evidence That Cooperative Behavior Is Contagious?
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In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the University of California, San Diego and Harvard say they have provided the first laboratory evidence that cooperative behavior is contagious. Researchers sho ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 8 2010 - 7:29pm
- A Classic Waste Of Breath
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A Classic Waste Of Breath An argument that a thing is natural, therefore not a cause of concern, is used greatly in modern times, most especially in connection with the arguments over whether or not we puny humans can interfere with natural environmental ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 9 2010 - 9:43am
- A Woeful Lack Of Candour
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A Woeful Lack Of Candour In a recent article I wrote: Godfrey Bloom MEP bemoans the fact that: "There appears to be a woeful lack of candour and commonsense in modern day politicians." Godfrey Bloom is an MEP- a politician. His party is called ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 9 2010 - 1:10pm
- The Oak of Science
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As a new kid on the block, I'd like to introduce myself via this inaugural piece. It follows a few posts I've made in Rycharde Manne's and Eric Diaz's columns recently The title of my piece is The Oak of Science, and its intention is to ...
Blog Post - Henry Cox - Mar 16 2010 - 9:45am
- Beer Belly of America
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We have the Rust Belt and Bible Belt and Sun Belt and Dairy Belt and Corn Belt and all sorts of other belts in the US, but this is the first I've heard of the Beer Belt. Or, more appropriately, the Beer Belly. The geniuses behind my most recent obsess ...
Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Mar 9 2010 - 3:14pm
- PowerPoint Doomed the Space Shuttle
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Ars Technica notes that famed anti-PowerPoint communications guru Edward Tufte is getting some sort of job consulting for the Obama Administration. In passing, they point to one of Tufte's online essays, PowerPoint Does Rocket Science. ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Mar 9 2010 - 3:24pm
- How Do We Fix Science Journalism? Simple- We Don't.
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How do we fix science journalism? Simple: we don't. We let it sink, and be reborn in a different form. It is rather utopic to insist that in a world of changing means of communications, a world where printed matter is losing ground to the advantage of ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 10 2010 - 8:21pm
- Oryx And Crake
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End of the World Sci-Fi Oryx and Crake (2003) The Year of the Flood (2009) by Margaret Atwood In Atwood's world of Oryx and Crake, biotechnology has ruined the world, in more ways than one. As the result of a near-omnipotent ability to manipulate bio ...
Article - Michael White - Mar 10 2010 - 4:09pm
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