Science & Society

The Best of Geek Pop 2010- Science vs Pseudoscience: Off That (The Rationalist Anthem)

It's that time of year again... Geek Pop 2010! What is Geek Pop, you may ask? From the website: "Geek Pop is a free online music festival featuring artists inspired by science. Every year, we bring together musicians from around the globe in a gl ...

Blog Post - Andrea Kuszewski - Mar 23 2010 - 10:21am

Grigoriy Perelman- A Serious Lesson For All Of Us

Like about four years ago, the name of Grigoriy Yakovlevich (Grisha) Perelman is again in the mass-media headlines all around the world. Grisha is a prominent mathematician, who was able to solve one of the most perplexed mathematical problems of the last ...

Article - Evgeni Starikov - Apr 25 2010 - 3:18am

When Sir James Black passed away this week he left a vacancy in the Order of Merit

The Order of Merit- the so-called "most exclusive club in the world". But what is it and what makes it so special? Sir James Black invented beta-blocker drugs, won a Nobel Prize and is widely hailed as one of the great Scottish scientists of the ...

Blog Post - Henry Cox - Mar 24 2010 - 11:01pm

Atomic Bomb Memoirs

At the New York Review of Books, physicist and science writer Jeremy Bernstein tells what it's like to witness an atomic explosion: ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Mar 26 2010 - 1:50pm

On Blogging And Soothsaying

On Blogging And Soothsaying The internet is a wonderful means of spreading information, but there is a danger of spreading misinformation.  It probably takes far fewer years of education to read a science article than to fully understand it.  The danger i ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 27 2010 - 1:56pm

Biologist And Former Dominican Wins £1 Million Templeton Prize For Science And Religion

"Francisco J. Ayala, an evolutionary geneticist and molecular biologist who has vigorously opposed the entanglement of science and religion while also calling for mutual respect between the two, has won the 2010 Templeton Prize." Yet again the pr ...

Article - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 28 2010 - 2:12am

Life Before Life" A Case For Life After Life

"When I was your age, I used to change your diapers," said eighteen month old Sam Taylor to his father. Two years later, Sam correctly picked out his grandfather from a photo of his grammar school class of 27 children, shouting "That's ...

Blog Post - Diana Deregnier - Mar 30 2010 - 9:16pm

Skeptical Weathercasters To Report On Climate Change

A survey of television weathercasters conducted by George Mason University researchers shows that two-thirds are interested in reporting on climate change, and more than half are skeptics of the phenomenon. The survey comes at a time when only a handful of ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 29 2010 - 10:32am

Media rights and wrongs

If you want to believe news reports Prf. James Lovelock think we are too stupid to stop climate change. What he actually said was "I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle as complex a situation ...

Blog Post - Mo Ackermann - Mar 30 2010 - 3:59pm

Blogging As Personal RAM

I forget how I ran across this link, but this blogger reflects on how six years of blogging has helped his work as a political analyst: ...

Article - Michael White - Oct 1 2010 - 1:08pm