Science & Society

On Blogging And Soothsaying The internet is a wonderful means of spreading information, but there is a danger of spreading misinformation.  It probably takes far fewer years of education to read…

At the New York Review of Books, physicist and science writer Jeremy Bernstein tells what it's like to witness an atomic explosion: With the renewed interest in nuclear weapons I have been struck by…

The Order of Merit - the so-called "most exclusive club in the world". But what is it and what makes it so special? Sir James Black invented beta-blocker drugs, won a Nobel Prize and is widely hailed…

Like about four years ago, the name of Grigoriy Yakovlevich (Grisha) Perelman is again in the mass-media headlines all around the world. Grisha is a prominent mathematician, who was able to solve one…

It's that time of year again... Geek Pop 2010! What is Geek Pop, you may ask? From the website: "Geek Pop is a free online music festival featuring artists inspired by science. Every year, we bring…

BIL is a fringe unconference that grew out of people trying to gatecrash TED conferences. BIL UK 2010 is scheduled to be held at Oxford on the weekend after TED, thereby giving some people the…

ATLAS is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Starting in late 2009/2010, the ATLAS detector will search for new discoveries in the head-on collisions of protons of…

One of the fundamental assumptions underlying the human quest for knowledge is that we can somehow logically answer questions we have about anything. This is a very pragmatic assumption and has…

One thing that scientists and politicians have in common is the need to beg: the former beg for funds while the latter beg for votes. Britain will soon have an election so this is the time for the…

A Quest for Truth Must science be focused on seeking the truth in everything?I mean, pretty much anything worth reading about science, is an initial theory, with perhaps a few pointers as to the…