Science & Society

I was working on a paper recently, and my boss included a editing note that got me thinking.  The topic dealt with certain circuits in the limbic network of the brain.  The note included…

Simon Singh Wins - US Law To The Rescue! The British Courts do not indulge themselves in bogus judgements - not even on April 1st. This article is genuine. A note on common law: Both the US and the…

Apocalyptic Sci-Fi: Dhalgren Dhalgren is an unconventional but outstanding post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel, and New York Magazine has an excellent feature piece on the book this month: Samuel R. Delany…

The month of April is National Autism Awareness month. Because this is a subject that touches many, and is frequently a topic of discussion not only on this site - but across the entire world of…

The big news in biotech this week is the court ruling against Myriad Genetics and gene patents. As Genomics Law Report discusses, this was an overwhelming win for the plaintiffs (which included the…

I forget how I ran across this link, but this blogger reflects on how six years of blogging has helped his work as a political analyst: In this sense, generating and maintaining the blog…

If you want to believe news reports Prf. James Lovelock think we are too stupid to stop climate change. What he actually said was"I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever…

A survey of television weathercasters conducted by George Mason University researchers shows that two-thirds are interested in reporting on climate change, and more than half are skeptics of the…

"When I was your age, I used to change your diapers," said eighteen month old Sam Taylor to his father. Two years later, Sam correctly picked out his grandfather from a photo of his grammar school…

"Francisco J. Ayala, an evolutionary geneticist and molecular biologist who has vigorously opposed the entanglement of science and religion while also calling for mutual respect between the two, has…