Science & Society
- Skeptical Weathercasters To Report On Climate Change
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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
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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
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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
- Gene Patents Gone
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The big news in biotech this week is the court ruling against Myriad Genetics and gene patents. As Genomics Law Report discusses, this was an overwhelming win for the plaintiffs (which included the ACLU and various research and patients' organizations ...
Article - Michael White - Mar 31 2010 - 12:25pm
- Autism Awareness Month
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The month of April is National Autism Awareness month. Because this is a subject that touches many, and is frequently a topic of discussion not only on this site- but across the entire world of media and journalism – ScientificBlogging will be presenting a ...
Article - Kimberly Crandell - Apr 26 2010 - 12:50pm
- Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi: Dhalgren
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Apocalyptic Sci-Fi: Dhalgren Dhalgren is an unconventional but outstanding post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel, and New York Magazine has an excellent feature piece on the book this month: ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Apr 1 2010 - 8:52pm
- Simon Singh Wins- US Law To The Rescue!
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Simon Singh Wins- US Law To The Rescue! The British Courts do not indulge themselves in bogus judgements- not even on April 1st. This article is genuine. A note on common law: Both the US and the UK are common law jurisdictions. British courts will accor ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 3 2010 - 4:46am
- A Simple Statement About Complexity
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I was working on a paper recently, and my boss included a editing note that got me thinking. The topic dealt with certain circuits in the limbic network of the brain. The note included the line: "limbic connections are very complex". The poin ...
Article - David Sloan - Apr 4 2010 - 11:20am
- How the history of science is like a fantasy novel
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Not long ago, I read J.R.R. Tolkien's mythopoeia masterpiece, The Silmarillion (his creation myth for the world of The Lord of the Rings). Upon finishing it, I immediately picked up Sparks of Life, a history of the spontaneous generation debates. As I ...
Blog Post - Adam Retchless - Apr 4 2010 - 8:57am
- South Dakota Exempted From Laws Of Science
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South Dakota Exempted From Laws of Science The South Dakota Legislature thinks that scientific laws are made up by people to suit agendas. Accordingly, they have invented some agendist stuff to make a political declaration that climate change is a myth. ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 5 2010 - 1:05am
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