Science & Society

The Science Of Fiction Tip of the hat to Eric Diaz for reminding me of the muse. Long before writing was invented, amazing stories were told through the medium of the ballad and the saga. Those old tall tales and modern science fiction often have a few c ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 4 2010 - 3:01pm

The Idea-Monger: No Genius Required

You are an idea-monger. Science, art, technology – it doesn’t matter which. What matters is that you’re all about the idea. You live for it. You’re the one who wakes your spouse at 3 AM to describe your new inspiration. You’re the person who suddenly veer ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Jun 7 2010 - 6:50am

Another win for citizen science

If you haven't heard- and you will, because I will keep talking about it- citizen science is getting its own summit this weekend, when H+ sponsors " Rise of the Citizen-Scientist "(1)... but that is not all that's been going on. Citiz ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 7 2010 - 8:07am

Wikipedia's Science 2.0 Article- I Call Poe

Wikipedia's Science 2.0 Article- I Call Poe This article was inspired by Hontas Farmer 's recent article and the subsequent comments: Science 2.0- Darwinian Selection Of The Best Paper. ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 8 2010 - 8:03am

What to expect at the H+ Summit

The last couple of months of organizing the H+ Summit at Harvard University, together with Alex Lightman, Kevin Jain, and all the other collaborators of the conference team, have been very intense. Now that we only have a few days before the event, the smo ...

Blog Post - David Orban - Jun 8 2010 - 7:37am

Citizen Science Isn't Enough Science For Citizens

Via GenomeWeb's Daily Scan, some comments on the prospects for citizen science in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Only one of the three appears to be an actual research scientist, but they make good points about the role of citizen science in resea ...

Article - Michael White - Jun 8 2010 - 3:40pm

Cigarettes Don't Kill As Much As Counterfeit Cigarettes Do

Large amounts of money are being siphoned from the multi-billion dollar cigarette smuggling trade and going right into the pockets of terrorist networks and international organized crime. A United Nations Security Council investigative body, the Group of ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2010 - 5:14pm

Mindblindness And The Role Of Culture In Seeing The Other

I think that there is an innate (somewhat mindblind) tendency to assume that other people think, feel, react the same way we do. Americans are often egocentric. We think that our way is the best way and assume that everyone wants to be like us. While it c ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Jun 13 2010 - 12:19am

Manifesto For The Simple Scribe- Rules Of Prose

Little nuggets of (k)nowledge can often be the most simple and common sense ideas, but it takes someone else to put them into a coherent sentence. Tim Radford is a freelance journalist who has written for the Guardian, The Lancet, New Scientist and others, ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Jun 13 2010 - 6:08pm

Media Barometer- Science 2.0 Is Taking Over

It's no secret social media is big- every marketing group latches on to the latest fad (even us- we gots the Tweetypages, we gots the Faceyspaceys) and people are using it more and more. But in the recent past, for many the Internet was just another ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 15 2010 - 12:09pm