Science & Society

Clusters, Technopolis, And A New Industrial Policy

Sorry I've been absent for a while. (I hope you missed me!) Here's one thing that's been keeping me busy: ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Dec 29 2010 - 11:43am

Scientific Method In Decline?

Jonah Lehrer in The New Yorker about the slipperiness of the scientific method: "The Truth Wears Off: Is There Something Wrong With The Scientific Method?" The test of replicability, as it’s known, is the foundation of modern research. Replicabil ...

Article - Michael White - Dec 30 2010 - 3:46pm

Is A Ph.D. A Waste Of Time?

The Economist argues, as they would be expected to argue, given their free market leaning, that due to the glut of Ph.D.s and therefore the poor job market (in academia), it is a waste of time.   A Ph.D. who enters the job corporate world for anything exc ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 29 2010 - 8:23pm

ADHD Yoghurt For Winning The Drug War

What is the most popular form of Citizen Science? Some want to make us believe it is SETI@home, 8 year olds being pressured by overenthusiastic teachers, or people in their backyards looking for comets. ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 24 2012 - 1:09am

"An Award-Winning Year for Science"-ScienceInsider

" 2010 was a banner year for science news and also a good one for Science 's news department. This year, our reporting team garnered six awards for stories published in the magazine or online. You can read more about these honors below, and if y ...

Blog Post - Vikki Cvichiee - Jan 1 2011 - 4:40pm

Sexing Up Global Warming For A New Decade

Environmental groups are concerned they have lost the trust of the public regarding global warming so they have taken to new marketing approaches.    They started the last decade with runaway public interest and goodwill and ended it with scandals and blac ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 3 2011 - 9:38pm

The Political Football Projection

When I were a lad (ay!) my father suggested that map projections was something I ought to interest myself in.  So I got hold of paper, ruler and pencil, drew a square grid, and then started filling in the outlines of the continents.  What emerged was somet ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jan 4 2011 - 5:44pm

Kraken Review: Chapter 1

The Shell and Mantle (a lovely pan-mollusca blog which regularly reminds me that cephalopods have some very cool cousins) kindly sent me a copy of China Miéville's Kraken after I whined about wanting to read it. I'm only one chapter in, so this ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Jan 6 2011 - 2:19am

HS/College Prep For Science

Are you thinking about majoring in science or engineering?  Want to get into a good college and leap out into a job?  Here's some advice for science-curious students in high school. As a HS junior, take HS Physics, Biology, or Chemistry-- whichever ma ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jan 7 2011 - 3:11pm

How To Become The Second Editor Of A 42-year-old Journal

I said there were two things keeping me busy and away from Science 2.0 for the last couple of months. The second thing was my transition to Editor-in-Chief of Technological Forecasting&Social Change, as of January 1. TFSC is the world’s premier scholar ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Jan 9 2011 - 5:39pm