Science & Society

Arrive at your In-Law's unprepared at Christmas and you may find yourself sitting in someone else's living room, unable to get to the remote control, and nothing but "The Wizard of Oz" on the TV. Not that that could be bad (the movie) ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 25 2008 - 11:14pm

You May Not Be Born Into A Race, Says Sociologist, You May Acquire It

University of Oregon sociologist Aliya Saperstein and sociologist Andrew M. Penner of the University of California, Irvine have a new twist on race- it isn't just appearance but socioeconomic status, they say. Their new study says that Americans who ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2008 - 11:03am

Warm Up Before Exercising Is Common Sense (Though It Still Needs To Be Said)

A warm-up program that focuses on improving strength, balance, core stability and muscular awareness cuts injury in female footballers by a third and severe injuries by almost a half, according to research published on bmj.com today. In an accompanying edi ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2008 - 10:13pm

Government and Energy Research: Government funding should cast a wide net.

Many of the biggest breakthroughs in science come from unexpected directions. Many revolutions come from unknown almost unfunded scientist working in obscurity. How can politicians in Washington know what kind of energy research will make that next big bre ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 20 2008 - 3:35am

Science Writing In The Lay Media

Obviously, scientificblogging.com is all about science writing (it's not just a clever name, as Wayne Campbell would say). Blogging, as Atlantic senior editor Andrew Sullivan said in the November issue, "is, in many ways, writing out loud." ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Dec 10 2008 - 9:46am

ScientificBlogging.com: Science 2.0 Gets A Version 2.0

FOLSOM, California, December 11 /PRNewswire/-- ION Publications LLC, publisher of ScientificBlogging.com, (http://www.scientificblogging.com/) The world's premier online science community, has released its version 2.0. ScientificBlogging.com (http:// ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Dec 11 2008 - 10:37am

Not All Of Science Is On The Obama Love Train

Most scientists wanted someone- anyone- other than George Bush in the White House. Not because of budgets, clearly they went up a lot for NASA, NSF and the NIH during the Bush years, but because there was a perception of an anti-science agenda that went ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 12 2008 - 1:35am

Milton's Own Goal?

Recently News Account have published an item The Meaning Of Milton 400 Years Later. This has led me to some thoughts. It was only when I was into my forties that I got around to reading Paradise Lost. To start with, there are some bits that really stick in ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Dec 12 2008 - 2:25pm

Children Need Slow TV Such As Bagpuss And Other Oliver Postgate Characters

So says an article in the Sunday Telegraph, following the death of Oliver Postgate, creator and writer of some of Britain’s most popular children’s television programmes, namely Pingwings, Pogles’ Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Dec 14 2008 - 7:21pm

Lesbian Necrophiliacs- Why Discover Is Bigger Than We Are

Well, two reasons; reason one is that if we write about bdelloid rotifers we just make reference to bdelloid rotifers but if they write about bdelloid rotifers, they find a way to incorporate lesbian necrophiliacs into the title. Seriously, who is not g ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 14 2008 - 11:53am