Science Education & Policy
- Chew Gum, Get Better Math Grades?
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WHAT: New research from Baylor College of Medicine indicates a positive effect of chewing gum on academic performance in teenagers. The study examined whether chewing Wrigley sugar-free gum can lead to better academic performance in a "real life" ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2009 - 11:53am
- It can't be that simple (*$%?!*)
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I have recently been contacted by a friend who is worried at the decline in numeracy in the West. He asked me what I thought of the following: In 2005, Newt Gingrich (who had been on the Hart-Rudman Commission) stated: The collapse of math and science edu ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Apr 22 2009 - 2:00pm
- The Humanities Are In Crisis- Science Is Not
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Graduate education in the humanities may have its problems, but don't try to tar science with the same brush. In a NY Times Op-Ed, by Dr. Mark Taylor, the chairman of Columbia's religion department, we're told that graduate education in gene ...
Article - Michael White - Apr 28 2009 - 12:13pm
- Getting Rid of Tenure
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Is tenure good for America? Mark Taylor, a professor of religion, has observed (in the New York Times) that: ...
Blog Post - Nicholas Horton - Apr 27 2009 - 5:18pm
- Is Richard Dawkins Really That Naive?
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Richard Dawkins doesn’t usually strike me as being naïve, but one has to wonder when Dawkins abandons himself to the following sort of writing about his favorite topic these days, the incompatibility between science and religion, on his web site: ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Apr 28 2009 - 12:01pm
- Big Science Puts Black Swans in Danger of Extinction
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This topic isn't new, but it's worth revisiting (h/t to Bioephemera)- over at Physicsworld read about science's need for "black swan" scientists: If the path to discovery is full of surprises, and if most of the gains come in just ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Apr 29 2009 - 9:24pm
- Adolf Hitler- World's Best-Selling Children's Author.
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Who are your all time favourite childrens' authors? Dr. Seuss, Enid Blyton, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Adolf Hitler? Warning: satire alert! Adolf Hitler- World's Best-Selling Children's Author. Adolf Hitler, famous author of t ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - May 1 2009 - 10:09am
- High School Biology Teachers Influence Student Views On Creationism/Intelligent Design Versus Science
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High school biology teachers may be even more important than the curriculm, according to a University of Minnesota study published in the May issue of BioScience. Co-authors Randy Moore and Sehoya Cotner, professors in the College of Biological Sciences, s ...
Article - News Staff - May 1 2009 - 11:47am
- Social/Behavioral Science And Global Security
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Throughout the post-industrial era, science and technology have been central to understanding both global security threats and possible solutions. Within the US and across the globe, major scientific organizations have developed Committees and working gr ...
Article - Randy Borum - May 9 2009 - 8:51am
- Fighting Dirty in Science
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John Tierney wants to know- how widespread is the problem of unethical competition in science? Here's the problem explained by Dr Sean Cutler on Tierney's blog: Sadly, there is a lot of unethical competition that goes on in science. This year alo ...
Blog Post - Michael White - May 12 2009 - 2:55pm
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