Science & Society

Scientific Blogging's University Writing Competition kicks off next Tuesday, September 1st.  There's been a lot of buzz and excitement about our first-ever writing competition that will give one…

[caption id="attachment_30" align="alignright" width="300" caption="The Copenhagen conference must agree to cut pollution."][/caption] In 100 days, the United Nations Climate Change Conference …

This summer I discovered a new (to me) literary genre: post-war British Sci-Fi. The decades after WWII were (not surprisingly) rather rough on the Brits, and the zeitgeist found an interesting outlet…

Obesity has increased dramatically in the last two decades, yet so have awareness campaigns saying appearance does not matter.    The cultural miasma is hardest on its youngest members and…

If you listened to the media, a bailout of GM was good for investors.  A few months later, the stock was wiped out.   But if you paid attention to Ford Motor Company while the media ignored…

I assume so, given that you're on Scientific Blogging. But if you have any lingering doubts, take the Pew Research Center's Science Knowledge quiz. It's a quick 12-question quiz about basic…

Last night we attended the "Science of Fine Wines" event in support of the Sacramento Discovery Science&Space Museum. This was, as you can imagine, not a hard science event.   The Museum…

The Pacific Region of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, "the world's largest general scientific society") includes some of the best universities in the world, located on…

Bernie Madoff recently got a jail sentence for promising a huge return on investment in defiance of common sense. New research published by scientists from the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric…

A few days ago a local skeptic group here in Brooklyn organized a roundtable discussion on the concept of the paranormal. We thought this was going to be a chat about what people mean by that term,…