Science Education & Policy

Here are a few questions I would like to see answered in Science 2.0 during 2011. First I would like to see a major scientist explain why the laws of nature are almost the same nearly everywhere. Especially interesting would be an explanation of why distan ...

Blog Post - Jerry Decker - Dec 30 2010 - 7:40pm

Saturn (Chronos), Eating His Children

Western thought, from the sciences to the arts, have been based upon the rich mythology and history of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. One which seems to guide the subconscious thought of many of our political and financial leaders is the myth of Saturn (C ...

Article - Ed Chen - Jan 2 2011 - 4:21pm

Centralized Politics, Centralized Thought

“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.” “Will people ever be wise enough t ...

Article - Ed Chen - Jan 4 2011 - 9:19am

Do Meet The Scientist Programs Work?

A number of scientific organizations these days are creating Meet the Scientist programs and sending scientists and engineers out into public schools, science cafes, and other venues with the hope that they can drum up interest in pursuing careers in these ...

Article - Aimee Stern - Jan 6 2011 - 6:12pm

Ratzinger Against Sexual Education

That's too bad. Pope Benedict XVI just let go with a very unfortunate judgement, which betrays just how much the catholic church would like to force a control on our society. In a new-year speech he gave in front of diplomats, Benedict touched the sub ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 10 2011 - 7:43am

Pictures From An Exhibition

You may recognize the famous Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky, whose best known work is “Pictures at an Exhibition”. But the pictures that follow are from a totally different exhibition, that of the Association for Science Education Annual Conference ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jan 11 2011 - 6:52pm

Yep, This Should Get You Fired

An Ohio 8th-grade creationist science teacher with a habit of branding crosses on his students' arms has been fired, after a long and tedious process and a lawsuit that cost the school district some big bucks. The referee who evaluated the case for te ...

Article - Michael White - Jan 14 2011 - 4:04pm

Marijuana Laws And 14th Amendment

The Fourteenth Amendment of the United States constitution was passed after the civil war to provide equal protection to freed slaves under the law and to protect them from discriminatory behavior by the government. However, since then, the equal protectio ...

Article - Ed Chen - Oct 17 2011 - 10:14am

The Value Of Peer Review In Political Policy

For policy makers and politicians, there is confusion over what peer review is and how it should be used in policy decision making and, really, how improved technology and new science (including any ethics issues) make critical evaluation by the independ ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2011 - 5:39pm

A New Model For Citizen Science In The Classroom

The scientific literacy of the American student has been dropping for quite some time now, and we often hear about this serious problem (here and here and, oh, over here). ...

Article - Matthew T. Dearing - Jan 24 2011 - 12:08pm