Science & Society

Has Science Really Been Under Lock and Key?

A current news piece announces the end of scientific secrecy. Scientists can "forgo the long wait to publish in a print journal and instead to blog about early findings and even post their data and lab notes online. The result: Science is moving way f ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 22 2008 - 10:30pm

Big Ten Battleground Poll- Obama, McCain Statistical Dead Heat

In the inaugural Big Ten Battleground Poll taken as the nation's financial crisis worsened this week, John McCain and Barack Obama were in a statistical dead heat in seven of the eight Midwest states included in the survey. The individual surveys of ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2008 - 11:29pm

Surrender Your Booty! It's Talk Like A Pirate Day

Ahoy maties, how the time flies. It is "Talk Like A Pirate Day" once again and the science communities be awash in pirattitude. Or not, perhaps 'tis just me. But if it's not just me, and the little Buccaneer in you is also seeking other ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 29 2013 - 9:53pm

The LHC Passed Every Test Except The Thunderstorm One

Nature had her own ideas about testing the Large Hadron Collider(LHC) near Geneva last Friday. A thunderstorm knocked out some transformers that are part of the helium cooling system, which cools the magnets that keep the proton beams travelling at near li ...

Article - Alan Gillis - Sep 19 2008 - 5:24pm

Accident Forces Two-Month Delay At The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

No collisions and no beams either next week at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The BBC reported a quench of about 100 superconducting magnets yesterday that heated up as much as 100 Celsius. A ton of liquid helium spilled into the tunnel and the CERN fir ...

Article - Alan Gillis - Sep 22 2008 - 1:39pm

Why We Love Evolutionary Psychology- People Assign Personalities To Cars, Says Study

Truls Thorstensen (EFS Consulting Vienna), Karl Grammer (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Urban Ethology) and other researchers at the University of Vienna say that people make lots of assumptions about sex, age, emotions, and intentions by looking at human ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 22 2008 - 12:28pm

David Sloan Wilson Vs. Larry Arnhart: Does Evolutionary Theory Favor Government Regulation?

The nation’s economy is in deep trouble, which means financial woes all over the world, with millions of people affected. President Bush is hardly appearing in the news, as apparently “the Decider” has nothing to say about a disaster whose slow but sure b ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Sep 22 2008 - 3:34pm

If You Love Democracy, Don't Wait In Line To Get A Coffee

Have you ever seen a giraffe wait in line? We haven't either. But if you go to an Olive Garden on a Sunday at 5:00 PM and see the line waiting patiently for a Never-Ending Pasta Bowl (and, let's face it, you can't eat more than one anyway) ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2010 - 10:40am

Steven Weinberg, Ralph Waldo Emerson And The Impact Of Science On Religion

Emerson looked forward to the day when America would be self-reliant and not second rate in its scholarship. In science, the U.S. has fulfilled Emerson's ambition, but at what cost to religion? Physicist Steven Weinberg muses on religion's fate i ...

Article - Michael White - Sep 22 2008 - 11:02pm

Culture Vultures Pounce- Banning Betting Would Help The Economy, Says Professor

You've probably heard that saying, 'if your only tool is a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail.' So it goes with culture too. People who have an agenda jump on every opportunity to advance it in every exploitative way- they are cu ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 22 2008 - 10:28pm