Science & Society
- Smelly gingkos, science bar, KRAS mutations
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A little of this and a little of that today... I had just clicked "save" to publish my blog and the internet closed without warning, so this is an abbreviated version of my abbreviated blog. Two stories caught my eye on the train ride in to work- ...
Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Dec 15 2008 - 11:24am
- Science Bloggers and the Internets
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An editor at Nature discusses the internet and the ethics of science communication (PDF). The paper doesn't turn out to be much of a discussion of science communication on the web- the piece ends up being more of a dig at open-access publishing advoca ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Dec 15 2008 - 5:42pm
- Sex, Drugs, but No Science at the Interior Department
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Anyone surprised? The inspector general of the Interior Department has found that agency officials often interfered with scientific work in order to limit protections for species at risk of becoming extinct, reviving attention to years of disputes overthe ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Dec 16 2008 - 8:56am
- Economist Says Job Loss From Collapse Of Automakers Would Be Less Than Media Reports- Yayyyy!
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If you're comfortably entrenched at the University of Maryland and not worried about a mortgage like Michigan autoworkers, you can understand why it's important that there will be debate about the actual numbers of jobs at risk. A new projecti ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 16 2008 - 3:53pm
- Where Not To Go- US 'Death Map' Shows Mortality Hot Spots
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" This article says most people die in bed. I figure if I stay out of bed, I'm safe."- Get Shorty A map of natural hazard mortality in the United States has been produced and is featured in the International Journal of Health Geographics. ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2008 - 9:25pm
- Olivia Judson on Information Bedlam
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I can relate to Olivia Judson's experience with the digitization of science journals: On the good side, instead of hauling dusty volumes off shelves and standing over the photocopier, I sit comfortably in my office, downloading papers from journal Web ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Dec 17 2008 - 10:00am
- Live Small, Live Better- And They Really Mean Live Small
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As you can imagine, running a swanky science publication ends up getting me a lot of press releases. People want to get the word out about what they are doing and I make no secret of the fact that I want to know what's going on because I don't ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 18 2008 - 10:34am
- Should Scientists Blog?
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Two articles addressing blogging and science have appeared recently in Trends in Ecology and Evolution and in PLoS Biology. ...
Blog Post - John Dennehy - Dec 18 2008 - 10:27am
- Christmas myths debunked by BMJ
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I didn't know that Christmas was associated with hangovers, but apparently in Britain it is. Whatever gets you through family time, I guess. Anyway, the venerable BMJ dedicated some quality space to debunking holiday myths, according to this BBC artic ...
Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Dec 18 2008 - 1:38pm
- Men And Women Donate To Charity Differently
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If you're man, and you give to charity at all, it is more likely to go to a needy person in your neighborhood but if you're a woman you are more likely to be charitable and you will also give to someone local or someone in a foreign country, says ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2008 - 3:21pm
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