Science & Society

Just a quick thought, prompted by my response to "TV as Teacher". We can blame the corporate media for pumping our kids full of distorted values and promoting gross stupidity, but the thing is, they'…

Alan Caruba Has A Problem With The Truth About Accuracy In Media Alan_Caruba recently wrote a guest column for AIM.  AIM promotes itself as Accuracy in Media for fairness, balance and accuracy…

Disclaimer: As we do not know just how science and society will evolve over the next few decades, much of this is entirely speculative. Good day to everyone. Today I come to you as Toy Soldier #…

Since we're frequently quoting, linking to, and commenting on someone else's copyrighted stuff, those of us who blog should have a strong interest in our copyright rights. Ars Technica has a piece…

The Symphony of Science is a project inspired by the work of Carl Sagan and has become well-known for producing short videos setting to music the wise words of scientists. The above video is the 4th…

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Headlines The problem with attracting readers to scientificblogging.com with attention-grabbing headlines is that some people don't realise that perhaps only…

This is an English translation of a potpourri of a number of recent papers and reports by one of the most interesting modern Russian journalists, Julia Latynina. I have just added a number of related…

A new report released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project suggests that news has evolved from a consumable product to a participatory experience. Technology has not only changed how, where…

Richard Dawkins should write a paper entitled "How not to run a Web 2.0 website." Perhaps apt that he is now the former Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, as he has shown…

CA, Inc. , today announced what they say is the first ever neurological study of consumer reactions to a poor online experience.  You won't know what that is because you are reading this site…