Science & Society

New PhDs Have High Employment And Above Average Salaries- Study

A survey taken by the Science and Technology Facilities Council says their funded PhD students have high employment rates and above average salaries. Since 2007, STFC has funded over 250 new students each year and 200 new students each year prior to that. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2010 - 10:58am

Want To Win A Dream Vacation To Sweden And See Some Science?

As a younger, unmarried man I wanted to visit Sweden, but more for the volleyball team than for the science (1), but since I don't want to find out if there 'are other fish in the sea' these days I might instead like to go to Kosterhavet Mar ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 1 2010 - 1:50pm

Mercola: Truer Words Were Never Written?

Mercola, webster of woo, he of the get your vitamin D through our tanning bed fame, has a new post up at Huffington Post. ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Jul 6 2010 - 7:13pm

Symbol Stacks And Science Communication In The Scienceblogs Pepsigate Scandal

I happened to be reading Howard Bloom's book The Genius of the Beast when I saw something odd happening in social media- there was a minor blow up on a science blogging site called Scienceblogs.com over a new column that would be written by people fro ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 11 2011 - 10:45am

View from the South

On the 12th July 2010, I was watching  Rich Hall 's 'The Dirty South'.  The programme trailer says: Rich Hall sets his keen eye and acerbic wit on his homeland once again as he sifts truth from fiction in Hollywood's version of the sout ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jul 16 2010 - 2:28pm

A Tale Of Three Drugs

In February 1999, the giant German pharmaceutical company Bayer celebrated the centenary of the launch of ASPIRIN, the world’s most successful legal drug. One thing they did NOT celebrate is the launch of HEROIN one year earlier. Both drugs are synthesized ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jul 17 2010 - 5:17pm

Healthier Pizza in Lunch Lady Land

Big news, school lunch eaters- your rectangle-shaped pizza will soon be burned and served up cold 1 with less sodium! Schwan's Food Service, based in the lovely state of Minnesota, is ahead of schedule by a year on reducing the sodium content of its B ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 19 2010 - 4:39pm

Does the blogosphere drive out undesirable opinions?

In the continuing wake of the Pepsigate scandal at Scienceblogs (it made a splash, and then seemed to die away, but suddenly there have been 18 departures) a writer at the Guardian takes that community to task for being insular. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 20 2010 - 11:19am

New screening criteria proposed for Alzheimer's

I had a "driveway" moment today listening to NPR- you know, where the story is really interesting and you've arrived at your destination but want to hear the end and folks walking by your car stare at you like you're about to pull off a ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 21 2010 - 6:12pm

Genetic Testing Companies Busted By Undercover Patients- But Which?

It was bound to happen.  Something which should be used for good can also be used for malice.   Allison Aubrey, writing on NPR, discusses the results of an undercover investigation by the GAO which says patients are getting blatantly ridiculous advice. One ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 12 2010 - 12:16pm