Science & Society

Update: For the latest bulletins, please see my new article:Japan's Nuclear Emergency - The Straight Goods - Update original post begins here:Japan's Nuclear Emergency - The Straight Goods There is…

Japan Quake - Media Up To Mischief Edit - this blog entry is now out of date.  The complaint about 100 versus 1000 is now withdrawn.Please see Japan's Nuclear Emergency - The Straight Goods -…

Over many years, as a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, I have regularly received their magazine, formerly Chemistry in Britain, now Chemistry World.  This often contains…

In case you were living under the science equivalent of a rock, the Journal of Cosmology published a study by a NASA researcher stating, essentially, that fossilized bacteria had been found on Earth…

Infinite Growth And The Crisis Cocktail - a guest article Infinite growth is not possible in any real-world context, yet many otherwise rational people behave - economically speaking - as if they…

Despite what you may guess by mass media coverage, the priorities of Americans are not global warming or wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but are instead just what they were in 1990; health care and a…

This from the BBC: “Germany has been named as the most supportive country for overseas students, in an international league table.” If you are a student looking for international experience, you…

I just became aware of a letter that is being sent to a couple of US Senators by a large and illustrious collection of scientists, and I decided to put my signature below it. The letter is clear and…

If we're being honest in retrospect, the first decade of the 2000s was bad for science journalism.    Too many journalists decided they wanted to be cheerleaders for science or, worse, had…

On the face of it, Al Gore conducting a global warming conference during a blizzard a few years ago looked bad.   But maybe it was a teaching moment. The weather has always had swings and…