Science & Society

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.

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

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

Climate Crook: Scam! Scam! Scam!

Climate Crook: Scam! Scam! Scam! Followers of my blog will no doubt guess that this article is about Godfrey Bloom- he of the famous quote: "There appears to be a woeful lack of candour and commonsense in modern day politicians." I have already ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 10 2010 - 8:09am

God Help Me, Say 82% Of Americans

Most Americans believe God is concerned with their personal well-being and is directly involved in their personal affairs, according to new research out of the University of Toronto. Overall, most people believe that God is highly influential in the events ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 10 2010 - 1:10pm

The Place Where Forever Ends

The Place Where Forever Ends The idea of living forever has held great fascination for many great minds, but just like the pursuit of a perpetual motion machine it is an impossible dream, and for the same reasons. Image source: Wikemedia, public domain. H ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 10 2010 - 12:57pm

Winning Science Fair Secrets From A SciFair Judge

After judging my fifth science fair (for this year), I've decided to share my secrets of a science-fair-judging scientist. Appropriately, I made this as a Science Fair 3-fold poster. At the risk of alienating Hank, the much put upon ScientificBloggi ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Mar 12 2010 - 1:00am

The Monckton Method

The Monckton Method Lord Monckton's UKIP party would like to ban Al Gore's movie: 'An Inconvenient Truth'. So much for freedom of speech. The UKIP party's Lord Monckton is so convinced that reports of global climate change are a h ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 11 2010 - 12:50pm

David Brin on being a Sci-Fi Writer

David Brin got his PhD and worked as a physicist before becoming a much-awarded sci-fi writer. He's got some great advice to would-be writers plus some interesting reflections on art vs science as a career: As a child, despite my talents and backgroun ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Mar 12 2010 - 3:28pm

The Oak of Science 2

The Oak of Science 2 The continuing analogy of Science as an Oak tree In case you missed it Part 1 here The Oak of Science Connections Some ways in which the different disciplines of science, just like the branches of the tree are intrinsically connected, ...

Blog Post - Henry Cox - Mar 13 2010 - 3:54am