Science Education & Policy
- Virtual Water- 20 Years Of An Invalid Method To Track Unseen Water In Goods
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In 1993, Professor John Anthony Allan of King’s College London coined the term "Virtual water" because the term 'embedded water' "did not capture the attention of the water managing community" and he wanted to create a metaph ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2014 - 11:00am
- 7 Things You Need To Know About The Climate Summit
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Climate March, New York City By Alessandro R Demaio, Harvard University ...
Article - The Conversation - Sep 23 2014 - 3:39pm
- One Statistic Can Strengthen Support For Traffic Safety Laws
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The public supports most traffic safety laws. They routinely defy cell phone laws, believing that they should be pulled over for driving recklessly, not for having a cell phone, and they defy speed limits- but nothing like when the onerous national 55 MPH ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2014 - 1:51pm
- Science 2.0: Codifying Collegiality And An Increase In Data-Sharing
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The public is not aware of this, but academic science is more like a small business than being part of a vast university structure. An investigator is the business owner and the researchers are independent contractors, augmented by graduate students who g ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 26 2014 - 3:30pm
- Will The True Voice On Climate Change Please Stand Up?
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Just don't forget to listen scientists too. Credit: EPA By Toby Miller, Cardiff University Who should political leaders follow when it comes to climate change: environmental scientists, powerful corporations, or a million marchers? Sometimes the thre ...
Article - The Conversation - Sep 29 2014 - 4:30pm
- Should Norway Be Paying Liberia To Stop Cutting Down Forests?
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Norway to the rescue? Credit: Travis Lupick, CC BY-NC-SA By Steffen Böhm, University of Essex and Katharine Rockett, University of Essex ...
Article - The Conversation - Sep 29 2014 - 5:30pm
- Free Birth Control Reduces Both Teen Pregnancies And Abortions
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Abortion and teen pregnancy dropped among teens who received free contraception and were educated about the pros and cons of various birth control methods, according to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine. ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2014 - 6:30pm
- Publish, Blog, Tweet: Furthering One's Career In Science Today
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Today and tomorrow I am attending a workshop in Padova titled as per the title above (but it is in Italian). If you know the language and are interested in the topic, there is available live streaming at the workshop's site, here: http://www.scicomm.i ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 2 2014 - 5:57am
- FIER (part 4) The Child as the Central Focus.
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Like a plant that needs the right environment for it to grow healthy and bear fruits, FIER is believed to be more of use in a world that shares its supporting principles and theories. That is referring to a supportive educational system. What educationa ...
Blog Post - Camilo Tabinas - May 1 2015 - 10:38pm
- Governor Jerry Brown and the NRDC get it right on antibiotics
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California Governor Jerry Brown has sided with the usually-anti-science National Resources Defense Council and vetoed a bill that would have forced factory farms to adhere to US Food and Drug Administration standards. Yes, the governor of California and ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 23 2019 - 12:03pm
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