Science & Society

Today's tale looks at whether ancient Sufi mystics predicted the current climate for science in the Western World.  Some see science as an ivory tower pursuit, others as a way of achieving…

CalypsoThe lonely nymph who waylays Odysseus for eight years on her island of Ogygia. Though the beautiful Calypso offers ease and even immortality, she is in fact selfish, caring only to alleviate…

Yes! Science is finally wiggling its way in to that sweet spot of American culture, television. Exhibit A: the Emmy nominations, announced today. I've never paid attention to this before but was…

I'm assuming most of you here have not followed the ongoing board war between ex-Scienceblogs and current Discover bloggers Chris Mooney/Sheril Kirshenbaum and current Sciencblogs tour de force PZ…

This almost makes up for cursing the world with Windows Vista: "Gates Puts Feynman Lectures Online Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates believes that if he had been able to watch physicist Richard Feynman…

A page of interesting thoughts and great quotes on visual thinking in science: [Feynman]: The next great era of awakening of human intellect may well produce a method of understanding the…

In the past several months I have been intellectually consumed with theidea of academic blogging and its potential to one day change the faceof academic communication.  I say "one day" because…

I can relate to what Isis is saying When I first told a more senior colleague what I was up to, he told me, "Isis, I don't care if you are building model trains in your spare time and then blowing…

University of Denver researchers say that couples who live together before they are engaged have a higher chance of getting divorced than those who wait until they are married to cohabitate. In…

Here's a short tale about scientific journal editing, to complement my lament about the lack of Editors in Web2.0.  At the risk of being a scientific pariah, I believe some works can be…