Science & Society

is all over my face when I read the following in an article on UK MSN: Five-year-old finds dinosaur bone A five-year-old girl has found fossilised bones from an Ice Age rhinoceros on a day out with her family at a water park. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Nov 5 2008 - 12:23pm

The Legend of Vitamin C: The Defeater of Colds

Vitamin C has been hailed as a magical vitamin for decades. Feeling sick, sleepy, or a little under the weather? Quick! Jam your mouth full of vitamin C, drink some orange juice and eat some strawberries (which have more vitamin c per weight than even oran ...

Blog Post - Erin Richards - Dec 15 2008 - 11:07am

Pine Bark May Reduce Jetlag, Says Study

I love to travel. Exploring new places, seeing new sights and eating new types of food are among the top greatest things. But traveling has some serious consequences. Not only do you have to deal with the circus that ensues when you try to get on the plane ...

Article - Erin Richards - Dec 15 2008 - 1:34am

Coffee Break Science Browsing

What I would have been reading over coffee in the lab, if I actually drank coffee in the lab (and of course I scrupulously follow the university Environmental Health&Safety rules and never drink coffee in the lab): At spiked, a review of Quantum: Einst ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Nov 7 2008 - 4:52pm

Teenage boys say it is acceptable to pressure girls into sex

So says a Daily Telegraph news item, reporting on a recent article in Journal of Clinical Nursing [1]. This brought to mind a programme from 2004 on Channel 4 (nicate?) called Sex Before 16: How the Law Is Failing, in which the journalist Miranda Sawyer ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Nov 9 2008 - 10:39am

Jim Watson Wins 'Double Helix Medal For Scientific Research'- Why?

Craig Venter and James Watson have won this year's Cold Spring Harbor 'Double Helix Medal For Scientific Research'. Venter deserves it, but what's the deal with Watson? He hasn't done much for science research recently except tarni ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Nov 10 2008 - 10:57pm

Old People Need Sex Education Too- Condom Use Among Adult Brits Far Too Low

A high proportion of people are not using condoms when they have sex with a new partner, according to a new study of heterosexual partnerships among British men and women- but it's not teenagers, it's people in their 30s, 40s and in partnerships ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2008 - 10:59pm

Asian Superiority In The US A Myth, Says Study

There's a perception that people who immigrate to the US from China, or whose parents did, the so-called "Chinese-Americans", are all wildly successful and well educated. And they are, unless they are the least educated. They are also confr ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2008 - 12:13pm

Coffee Break Science Browsing

Actually, today it's tea because I need to go easy on the caffeine. Here's what's interesting in science around the web this week: Where did hobbits come from? Not the hobbits in the Shire, but Homo floresiensis, a diminutive hominid that li ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Nov 12 2008 - 4:16pm

AAAS Announces Its Science Journalism Awards

AAAS isn't usually regarded as fans of science journalism (well, unless it's people writing for Science) but that hasn't always been the case. Since 1945 they have honored science reporting for print and radio and later expanded that to tel ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2008 - 1:23pm