Science & Society

Open Science- When Will Its Nobel Laureate Arrive?

Darwin took decades to publish while Newton practically wrote his Principia so as not to have to bother answering questions from other physicists. Throughout science history the attitudes and methods of scientists have varied as dramatically as the persona ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 9 2011 - 11:26am

Should We Trust Scientists?

I am a Science 2.0 newbie: I have written my first article   only a few days ago, and a second one shortly afterwards.  But I have soon realized that there is a sort of underground debate going on, about whether non-scientists should trust scientists about ...

Article - Paolo Ciafaloni - Nov 9 2011 - 4:31pm

"Trend" of the Stock Market

Eco-friendly water bottles, hybrid vehicles, eco-clothes, wearable computing are only a few examples of how science and fashion have been going hand-in-hand over the past decade. A new item was added to the long list in October, when an Austrian designer ...

Blog Post - Zeynep Altinay - Nov 11 2011 - 1:24am

Don't Get Fooled: Fighting The Assault On Science In America

"Fool Me Twice" is the title of a new book on science and politics by Shawn Lawrence Otto. Subtitled "Fighting the Assault on Science in America", it addresses a topic which is often presented as a kind of problem to be solved to gain s ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Nov 13 2011 - 3:54pm

Roger Pielke, Jr. Probably Isn't Buying This Book

Roger Pielke, Jr. is one of the most authentic science communicators around.  When the science is solid, he supports it, regardless of the political or cultural implications, and when it is crap, he ridicules it.   Really, that is what everyone in science ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 16 2011 - 8:17pm

Brian Cox's comments on Science Blogging: One bloggers reply.

Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw commented to the effect that it's wrong in some professional or moral way to blog about science.  (How odd coming from a man who presents science on TV, and another man who authors books.)  Others have posted thoughtful meas ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Nov 19 2011 - 6:20am

OPERATIC CONCERN

OPERA TIC CON CERN-- James Ph.Kotsybar   Oh, little neutral one of tiny mass, anomalous traveller from the sun, you fly through matter that photons can’t pass: Could this explain the races that you’ve won?   ...

Blog Post - James Ph. Kotsybar - Nov 22 2011 - 1:15pm

To share or not to share… before peer review

I attended a science online event a few weeks ago about research articles in the news but not reviewed. Most of the discussions were focused on how we perceive peer-reviewed articles, and those that are not reviewed. Both scientists and science writers at ...

Blog Post - Lori Bystrom - Nov 23 2011 - 3:33am

Of Trees, Fighter Jets, And The Mysteries Of Science Funding

By the time Dr. Maciej Zwieniecki returned to the blackboard, I’d gotten sufficiently lost in the intricacies of fluid dynamics that I wasn’t sure how much more I could absorb from his lecture on vertical water transport in trees.  Still, I could objective ...

Article - Holly Moeller - Dec 3 2011 - 1:11pm

Where Am I?

I looked at my watch after the English gentleman walked away. The half hour discussion had begun with my question, “Excuse me sir, could you please tell me about places to see in this town?” I had to stop this person and ask him because unlike anyone else ...

Blog Post - Animesh Chatterjee - Dec 5 2011 - 10:09pm