Science Education & Policy

Perhaps it's resolution-making hangover inherent in the start of a new calendar year and simultaneous beginning of another semester, but I've felt particularly optimistic about my future in graduate school recently. But, I'm going to choose ...

Article - Me W - Jan 8 2010 - 2:57am

Filtering Information In The Information Age

Filtering Information In The Information Age The Fortean Times appears never to have been mentioned on scientific blogging.com, much less cited as a reference source. Now, when you have quite finished falling about laughing, I would like, in all seriousn ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 14 2010 - 7:17pm

Science 2020: Motherhood, Clean & Sustainable

THE QUESTION IS "What Will The Next Decade Bring In Science?" The answer is both obvious and dreamy at once. Well, 'motherhood' is a wonderful term for the expected and the unexpected. Take my piece on dimers as an illustration of this ...

Article - Hatice Cullingford - Jan 18 2010 - 6:01pm

Making the NIH less Risk-Averse

The current system for allocating grant money favors senior investigators with established labs over junior faculty with smaller labs and shorter track records, and conservative projects that are almost guaranteed to work over high risk-high payoff project ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Feb 3 2010 - 11:36am

Abstinence-only Interventions: If You're Gonna Do It, Do It Right

To get it on or not get it on, that is the question for adolescents and teens. The Bush administration pushed abstinence-only education as the way to go, and anyone daring to discuss safe sex and contraceptives was excoriated. As Bristol Palin can attest, ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Feb 5 2010 - 4:48pm

Women More Willing To Take Birth Control Advice From 'The OC' Than The Media

The authors of a new study published in Human Communication Research say that the media is losing some its ability to sway viewers on important social issues. Specifically, the study shows that the 'OC', a crummy drama series about teens and thei ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 9 2010 - 7:27pm

Pseudoscience And Sex-Segregated Education

Do boys and girls learn differently? Differently enough to justify sex-segregated classes and schools? The ACLU says no and is involved in a case in Louisiana: ...

Article - Michael White - Mar 5 2010 - 11:47am

Free Online Lectures from the Best US Universities- Academic Earth

There are times when online discussions get heated, times when people seem to have differing ideas of what certain concept actually mean. Sometimes Wikipedia helps in gaining at least the first foothold on a new subject, but sometimes you really want to fi ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 7 2010 - 12:56am

Students Who Know Earth's Age Accept Evolution, Survey Says

High school and college students who understand that the earth is 4.5 billion years old are much more likely to understand and accept human evolution, according to a survey published this month in Evolution. The finding could give educators a new strategy ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2010 - 12:19pm

What Is Science?

What Is Science? Some time ago I was visiting a college in Pakistan. I thought I was just there as an observer. My mistake. I was introduced to a physics class with final words that filled my soul with dread: "... from England who is going to give ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 13 2010 - 3:49pm