Science & Society
- Don't be fooled
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One of the fundamental assumptions underlying the human quest for knowledge is that we can somehow logically answer questions we have about anything. This is a very pragmatic assumption and has given rise to the amazing and often destructive spectacles th ...
Blog Post - Siju Mammen - Mar 22 2010 - 1:30am
- ATLAS LHC CERN Experiment Online Store
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ATLAS is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Starting in late 2009/2010, the ATLAS detector will search for new discoveries in the head-on collisions of protons of extraordinarily high energy. ATLAS will learn about the bas ...
Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 22 2010 - 4:20am
- BIL UK Conference Oxford 2010- Like TED But Cheaper
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BIL is a fringe unconference that grew out of people trying to gatecrash TED conferences. BIL UK 2010 is scheduled to be held at Oxford on the weekend after TED, thereby giving some people the opportunity to sneak into TED Global anyway. There are also BIL ...
Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 22 2010 - 10:30am
- The Best of Geek Pop 2010- Science vs Pseudoscience: Off That (The Rationalist Anthem)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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"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
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