Science & Society

Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End was my main pick for 1953 in our survey of post-apocalyptic sci-fi, but John Wyndham's Kraken Wakes is another great apocalypse novel from the same year. (It was…

Hi all, I'm giving an invited talk at the AGU this year and would looooove to hook up with other Science2.0-ers.  Anyone else going to be there, or in San Fran, Dec 13-17?  I'll be there on…

Happiness is defined in east and west in different manner. Amassing huge amount of wealth by rulers in east was considered to make them happy while saints of eastern philosophy derived their…

During the recession, a number of people have begun to value work less (unless finances force them to value work much, much more) -  time away from family, less leisure time and fewer self-…

If you like to read science studies you are most likely to get them through one of two avenues; the long-standing business model has been that a print journal gets the study and does the work…

New vending machines are popping up in Germany. No, they aren't selling used underwear like in Japan. They're selling disposable shoes, called Ballerina To Go, for women whose feet are aching after…

There are some interesting parallels here between the development of scientific thinking and the development of literature: The novel broke from those narrative predecessors that used timeless…

In New York State, under the Public Corporations law, so called "Authorities" or "Public Corporations" can be created that have the ability to raise capital, make autonomous decisions, and act…

There will be no survivors Exactly what nuclear world war would look like was a matter of diverse opinion in the nuclear apocalypse novels of the 1950‘s. Many post-apocalyptic novels of this decade…

Actor Harrison Ford, and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner (and Science 2.0 favorite) Dr. Edward O. Wilson are holding a press conference today at 3:30 in Palo Alto, California, to announce the newly…