Science & Society

Why scientists should blog is not a new topic to Science 2.0. In a way, I think we pioneered science blogging (1) because, prior to us, the only science bloggers with any real audience mostly wrote about politics and religion and last year I chaired a p ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 24 2010 - 8:06pm

NSF Funding Citizen Science From Gulf Oil Spill

Recently, we featured an article on how new federal money-- funneled through the NOAA -- is being directed to citizen science efforts (read more). ...

Article - Matthew T. Dearing - Nov 30 2010 - 8:11am

Much Ado About Nothing: Science Communication FAIL?

Anyone who woke up yesterday morning hoping that December 2 nd 2010 might be a historic day in the search for extraterrestrial life is likely to be sorely disappointed. All week the hype has been building since the NASA PR machine announced that they were ...

Article - Jane de Lartigue - Dec 3 2010 - 3:21pm

Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes

Not sure how all this works yet, but anyway, I found this nice presentation of world life expectancy and wealth over the last 200 years. The data is interesting in itself, but the presentation is particularly interesting/entertaining. ...

Blog Post - Steve Donaldson - Dec 3 2010 - 5:37pm

Death- Humanity's Number One Problem

The three problems of humanity were outlined in a talk by Nick Bostrom (of Oxford University, UK) at TED in April 2009. While I'm sure there are some that will consider these points to be quite reasonable in setting goals, I'm continuously amaz ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Dec 4 2010 - 7:26pm

New York Times: The Lost Puzzles

Did you get visit here after quickly vanquishing my puzzles in this morning's New York Times Science section? If so, you're likely ready for a new challenge. Below are the puzzles the Times cut — because they're too darn tricky or perhaps be ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Dec 8 2010 - 2:51pm

Economics- The Cheerful Science?

Economics is always called the dismal science, because it has science pretensions yet never makes accurate predictions. The outlook, according to economists, is always rather bleak. But given the current state of the economy, economists are downright ecs ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 8 2010 - 1:13pm

Poor Nations: Medieval England Had It Better Than You

Economics is called the dismal science for a reason- things are never very good to economists. Heck, economists have been over the moon about the economic downturn because it gives them something to talk about ("Economy booming, inflation low without ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 8 2010 - 1:48pm

The 2010s Will Be To The 2060s What The 1960s Are To Us Today

The title, “ The 2010s will be to the 2060s what the 1960s are to us today ” is in a sense the most uplifting quote I have heard in a long while (yeah, I know about all the bad things, too, whatever). Since the 60s also stand for quite some influence of p ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 18 2011 - 12:28am

Skepticism About Skepticism

Anyone can be skeptical about a scientific result. It's good to state your skepticism, to make your view known. But are you done once you speak your view? Is that all it takes, a quick skeptical wrench and we shut off the flow of science? Guest writer ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Dec 13 2010 - 1:27pm