Science & Society

A Mobile Lab for the Amateur Scientist

Many of you who involve yourself in citizen science projects, or personal amateur research might dream of designing dedicated laboratory spaces in ones' own home or garage. Sort of like the " man cave " (or, "woman cave"!) for the ...

Blog Post - Matthew T. Dearing - Aug 18 2010 - 9:58pm

Digital Advertising Being Clobbered By Traditional Media

LONDON, August 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/-- Against all odds, traditional advertising is perceived by consumers as more informative, entertaining and necessary than online advertising. Of more than 1,200 people surveyed for digital marketing show ad:tech Londo ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 20 2010 - 3:02am

Five Ways To Get Your Wife To Have More Sex (With You)

I needed a good laugh this morning, so a tip of the hat to Fox News for the welcome relief. On the Google News homepage, I saw this humdinger of a headline: "Fox on Sex: 5 Ways to Get Your Wife to Have More Sex With You" I don't know about y ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Aug 20 2010 - 7:33pm

Secrets Of 'Fixing' Science Journalism

Fix can mean to repair or to gimmick, as in 'the fix is in'.  I'm not going to tell you how to repair science journalism.  A few wingnuts stalwarts here at Science 2.0 beat that to death.  Their suggestions include sack the journalists, and ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Aug 20 2010 - 3:39pm

TV Drives Giant Squid Research

A couple months shy of a year ago, I was raving about the news that a new giant squid documentary was in the works. Guess what? It's still in the works! If this weren't so deadly serious (joke) I'd be laughing my head off about the meta-meta ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Aug 21 2010 - 12:00pm

Tylophora Indica for asthama

Tylophora Indica (  Asclepiadaceae)   Root or leaf powder is used in diarrhoea, dysentery and intermittent fever. Dried leaves are emetic diaphoretic and expectorant. It is regarded as one of the best indigenous substitute for ipecacuanha. The roots are s ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 21 2010 - 6:33am

M.A.D. 2.0

M.A.D. 2.0 The greatest fear of mankind after World War 2 was the real possibility of a World War 3. It was a rational fear of a very real threat: the global destruction of civilization. Nations, most especially the USA and the former USSR, found themselv ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Aug 10 2011 - 6:14pm

Analogy Watch

Yesterday, JR Minkel tweeted this: @jrminkel The most striking science analogy I've ever heard: http://bit.ly/auGvp4 The link leads to a brief excerpt from an NPR story in which Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David Linden says, ...

Blog Post - Lauren Rugani - Aug 24 2010 - 11:35am

Open science and the march of history

Jason Hoyt, Ph.D., is Chief Scientist and VP of R&D at Mendeley, and asks researchers which side they want to be on in the march of history- legacy toll access to results or open access of both science and publication. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 24 2010 - 2:51pm

Music on a Planetary Scale (podcast)

Listen to Mars, now listen to me, now listen to Mars. This is what Mars could sound like, if it sounded like me. Today, we listen to sonification of data, artistic interpretation, and discuss which is ‘better’ and which is ‘more real’. Can we hear a point ...

Blog Post - Project Calliope - Aug 24 2010 - 2:57pm