Science Education & Policy

A Perfect Storm Of Buzzwords- Report Says Global Warming Will Increase Terrorism

A classified assessment by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) says climate change could threaten U.S. security in the next 20 years by causing political instability, mass movements of refugees, terrorism, or wars over water. The House Intelligence Com ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2008 - 9:53am

Creationists Push For Critical Thinking (no Joke)

Creationists and intelligent design proponents have scored an important victory in Louisiana this week, at least for now. In its appalling lack of wisdom, that State’s legislature overwhelmingly approved a bill that requires teachers to introduce to their ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jun 25 2008 - 5:29pm

Oridion Wins 2008 Manufacturers Partnership Award From Independent Medical Distributor's Association

JERUSALEM and NEEDHAM, Massachusetts, June 26 /PRNewswire/-- Oridion Systems Ltd.- (SWX: ORIDN) Oridion Medical, the leading developer and manufacturer of innovative capnography monitoring solutions, announced that it won the 2008 Manufacturers Partnershi ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 26 2008 - 12:32am

Globally-Developed MAAWG Best Practices For Dynamic Address Sharing, Email Forwarding Now Available; Aimed At Botnets, Improving

SAN FRANCISCO, June 26 /PRNewswire/-- Network operators and ISPs from around the world have cooperated on two new best practice papers addressing technical issues that will help block botnet-induced spam and improve the deliverability of consumers' p ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 26 2008 - 2:32am

Elsevier Announces Agreement With Portico

AMSTERDAM, June 26 /PRNewswire/--- Ensures Continued Access to eBooks on ScienceDirect Elsevier, a leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical (STM) information, today announced an agreement with Portico, a not-for-profit digital preservation s ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 26 2008 - 8:32am

Agendia's MammaPrint(R) Receives Prestigious Award From Dutch Innovation Platform

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, June 26 /PRNewswire/--- Test Declared One of the Most Pioneering Healthcare Innovations in 21st Century Agendia BV, a world leader in gene expression analysis-based diagnostics, is pleased to announce that the company recently rece ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 26 2008 - 9:30am

Gordon Brown Under Pressure From Influential Britons To Scrap Fuel Tax Hike

LONDON, June 26 /PRNewswire/-- YouGovStone, an opinion research agency, reports new findings which state that 83% of top Britons believe the Government should change its plans concerning the two pence fuel duty rise scheduled for October. These findings i ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 26 2008 - 11:30am

Gender Bias- Can Men Get A Fair Chance From Women In Research?

We read (and write here) a lot about gender issues in the scientific arena but usually topics are related to science education and promoting greater equality of numbers at the higher levels. There are a number of studies detailing the issues women face in ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2008 - 11:49am

Analyzing The Homocide Trend In Young Men

It has been commonly regarded as a good sign that the nation's homocide rate has remained flat but the big picture obscures a disturbing fact, say researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Namely that between 1999 and 2005, h ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2008 - 12:25pm

Edmonton To Be Site Of World's First Industrial Scale Municipal Waste-to-Ethanol Facility

EDMONTON, Canada, June 26 /PRNewswire/-- Edmonton will be home to the world's first industrial scale facility to produce biofuels from municipal solid waste. The City has signed a 25-year agreement with GreenField Ethanol, Canada's largest ethan ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 26 2008 - 4:32pm