Science & Society

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…

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…

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…

OPERATIC CONCERN -- 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…

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…

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…

"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…

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…

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…

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…