Science & Society

Concerns for an Early Mars Sample Return- background material

This is an article I wrote for wikipedia to cover the diversity of published views on Mars Sample Return. Sadly it was deleted from wikipedia. So I present it here as background material for:  Need For Caution For An Early Mars Sample Return- Opinion Piece ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - May 2 2019 - 6:08am

Blame "The Big Bang Theory"- Why Fewer Women Go Into Science

When it comes to disparities in gender among various, there are no limits to the hypotheses laid out to explain differences, usually in sync with the cultural agenda of the proponent. Engineering, for example, pays women more equally than any field in Ame ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2013 - 10:48am

Phone Hacking Scandal- Appeal Dismissed

Phone Hacking Scandal- Appeal Dismissed Rebekah Brooks, News International’s former chief executive,  Andy Coulson, former No. 10 spin doctor (Downing Street communications chief), and others have lost an appeal which attempted to redefine what is meant b ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 28 2013 - 11:43am

Is Law A Science?

Is Law A Science? In a recent article The Science Of Law I asserted that law, or more properly jurisprudence, is a science.  The basis for that assertion was that both science and law are founded in the Baconian method. In this comment, A Bear In The Wood ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 7 2013 - 6:27pm

Wikipedia Is Less Sexist, Thanks To A Survey Recount

One of the sillier arguments regarding gender inequality (and most of them regarding the developed world are pretty silly in 2013) is that Wikipedia, with anonymous editors of suspect credibility, is somehow sexist because fewer people self-identified as ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 7 2013 - 7:32pm

In Advanced Democracies With Progressive Gender Equality, Women Still Know Less Politics Than Men

A ten-nation analysis of media systems and national political knowledge funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in the United Kingdom found that women living in the world’s most advanced democracies and under the most progressive gender ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2014 - 2:38pm

Wildlife Conservation Benefits From Nuclear Weapons Testing

There's a new weapon to fight poachers who kill elephants, hippos, rhinos and other wildlife- nuclear bombs.  By measuring radioactive carbon-14 deposited in tusks and teeth by open-air nuclear bomb tests, researchers can pinpoint the year an animal ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2013 - 10:18pm

Robots Finally Awake!

The robots have awaken. The awakening of the robots did not proceed as foretold in many different versions of computers becoming conscious, whatever that means, and then expressing love, committing suicide, or taking over the world in a Robopocalypse, and ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 14 2013 - 3:56pm

The Researcher, A Rare And Endangered Species

Thanks to a Facebook friend, I got to give a look today at a very interesting pair of graphs. The first one shows the number of researchers per million inhabitants divided by country, in a world map. The second shows the fraction of female researchers. The ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 9 2013 - 9:09am

First World Problem For A Developing Nation: Too Much Grain To Store

Tropical climates that allow for year-round farming have a tremendous economic advantage, even in the developing world but corn and soybean farmers in Mato Grosso, Brazil have a developed world problem;a 10 percent post-harvest loss, partially due to a la ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2013 - 3:06pm