Science & Society

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Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 14 2011 - 3:21pm

PIOs Versus Science Bloggers

I'll tell you flat out, I love Public Information Officers- PIOs in journalism parlance. Without them, I would never get anywhere near the good stuff I get to write about. I would much, much rather deal with PIOs directly than through paid clearing ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 19 2011 - 10:03pm

Kraken: Fact Or Fiction? Take Your Pick!

This a double whammy, a two-for-the-price-of-one, a joint review (for some value of the word review) of two books with the same title: Kraken. China Miéville's Kraken is a New Weird novel that tracks the adventures of London Natural History Museum cur ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Feb 16 2011 - 9:32pm

In Defense Of Blogging

Yesterday I wrote about journalist and science blogger Ed Yong's unfortunate run-in with the kind of anachronistic journalism dinosaur that will be extinct one day soon- a PIO who resents blogging. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 17 2011 - 12:02am

And Another One Throws The Towel And Leaves Science

“Yesterday night I was in my office in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge packing my stuff, resolved to not go back to research again …” This sad story is another warning to all those enthusiastic about getting into science. One mo ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 19 2011 - 6:17am

The Evolution Of A Vaccine Textbook And The Arrogant Ignorance Of The Anti-Vaccine Movement

One of the fairly common things out of the "pro-safe" vaccine crowd insists is that there's inadequate research on vaccines. What better way to look at how information has grown over time than to look at the evolution of a vaccine textbook a ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Feb 20 2011 - 1:25pm

When Our Worldview Is Our Own Backyard

We all do it: we define things from our own perspective. One example I see over and over again is the idea that autism is whatever it looks like in our own kids, or own experience of it, not someone else's. If autism is accompanied with other problems ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Feb 21 2011 - 7:56am

Sniffer Rats

CLICK HERE for some pictures showing how giant African pouched rats are being used to detect land mines and tuberculosis in Tanzania and Mozambique. Their noses are very sensitive to TNT, and they are proving to be much easier to train than dogs. ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Feb 24 2011 - 9:57am

It's Often Not The Word: It's The Attitude