Science & Society

David Brin got his PhD and worked as a physicist before becoming a much-awarded sci-fi writer. He's got some great advice to would-be writers plus some interesting reflections on art vs science as a…

After judging my fifth science fair (for this year), I've decided to share my secrets of a science-fair-judging scientist.  Appropriately, I made this as a Science Fair 3-fold poster.  At…

The Monckton MethodLord Monckton's UKIP party would like to ban Al Gore's movie: 'An Inconvenient Truth'. So much for freedom of speech. The UKIP party's Lord Monckton is so convinced that reports of…

The Place Where Forever Ends The idea of living forever has held great fascination for many great minds, but just like the pursuit of a perpetual motion machine it is an impossible dream, and for the…

Most Americans believe God is concerned with their personal well-being and is directly involved in their personal affairs, according to new research out of the University of Toronto. Overall, most…

Climate Crook : Scam! Scam! Scam! Followers of my blog will no doubt guess that this article is about Godfrey Bloom - he of the famous quote:"There appears to be a woeful lack of candour and…

End of the World Sci-Fi Oryx and Crake (2003)The Year of the Flood (2009)by Margaret Atwood In Atwood's world of Oryx and Crake, biotechnology has ruined the world, in more ways than one. As the…

How do we fix science journalism ? Simple: we don't. We let it sink, and be reborn in a different form. It is rather utopic to insist that in a world of changing means of communications, a world…

Ars Technica notes that famed anti-PowerPoint communications guru Edward Tufte is getting some sort of job consulting for the Obama Administration. In passing, they point to one of Tufte's online…

We have the Rust Belt and Bible Belt and Sun Belt and Dairy Belt and Corn Belt and all sorts of other belts in the US, but this is the first I've heard of the Beer Belt. Or, more appropriately, the…