Science & Society

I get unsolicited mail: ProEvo: Pro Evolution- Guideline for an Age of Joy Being on a variety of evolution vs creationism mailing lists, I wasn't initially surprised to receive an apparently evolution-related book in the mail. I'd never heard thi ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 24 2010 - 10:06pm

Scientology Ad????

Let it be clear on this publically, to show I am not kidding: there is a scientology ad on the right column today. If that is not gone by tomorrow from here, I will. ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 26 2010 - 2:39pm

Sid The Squid Bids Kids To... What Exactly?

On the day after Squid Day, I got mail from the publishing company Immedium*, letting me know they'd just come out with a new children's book: Sid the Squid and the Search for the Perfect Job. It might be of interest to me and my readers. Would ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Oct 27 2010 - 11:14am

Science Makes a Huge Splash on the National Mall in DC

The USA Science&Engineering Festival ended on Sunday October 24th, after six months of working us all 24/7. But it was worth it. We had more than 500,000 people come through and on the lawn of the National Mall on Sunday I overheard a parent telling he ...

Blog Post - Aimee Stern - Oct 27 2010 - 1:53pm

Speak up for biodiesel?

«There are two main ways in which policymakers are insidiously interfering with the usual rules of supply and demand for raw materials, and myriad different smaller ones.... One is the policy of ultra-cheap money in advanced economies to fight the economi ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Oct 28 2010 - 12:42pm

Free Range Science And The Reverse Professor

This week I agree to give an invited talk at the AGU, soldered some more of my satellite, advised a student, gave several short lectures, and edited some papers. All of these are things professors get paid for-- except the editing. Yet, ironically, the e ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Oct 29 2010 - 4:33pm

The Climate Insiders- Their Goal Is Doubt

The Climate Insiders- Their Goal Is Doubt I BRING fraternal greetings from the Mother of Parliament s to the Congress of your “athletic democracy”. I pray that God’s blessing may rest upon your counsels. Viscount Christopher Monckton. Testimony to The Ene ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Nov 1 2010 - 7:55pm

Will China overtake the US in science leadership?

There are times when being a communist dictatorship has its advantages. Without having to worry about jobs or elections, you can enact a plan and stick to it until it works and, if a million or so peasants get displaced to build a dam, they don't vot ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 1 2010 - 11:25am

Facebook- The One Place Race Does Not Matter

In what will be a puzzle for the segments of society that claim everything is about race and racism, a new study by Harvard and UCLA sociologists shows, that at least among the current generation in college, race is a non-issue in Facebook friendships. Of ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 1 2010 - 6:21pm

Science Blogs Campaigns Against Young Bloggers

College Scholarships gives away 10.000 dollars to support a young blogger still in college. You can surf to their site and vote for the one you think is most deserving, the one who should get supported and may be in need of further support. However, you mi ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 31 2011 - 3:25am