Science Education & Policy
- Science 2020: Motherhood, Clean & Sustainable
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
- Darwin invented the phone, Newton discovered fire
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It's that time again for a look at how dumb the public is about science. One in ten children thought the telephone was invented by the Queen, with Darwin coming in second place. One in twenty thought the first man on the moon was Luke Skywalker, or po ...
Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 14 2010 - 4:03am
- A Brief Guide to Ignoring Bad Science Teachers
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Much has been written about how inspirational teachers can turn students on to a subject they perhaps would otherwise have let drift away. But what do you do if you're really into a subject but have a poor teacher who is doing their best to turn you o ...
Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 18 2010 - 1:30am
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