Science & Society
- Save Newspapers by Banning Links?
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Someone's got issues with Web 2.0- hell, with Web 1.0: Of all the misguided schemes put forth lately to save newspapers (micropayments! blame Google!), the one put forth by Judge Richard Posner has to be the most jaw-dropping. He suggests that linking ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Jun 29 2009 - 4:53pm
- Cancer Research, Grants, and the Topology of Funding
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John Hawks reviews an article in the NY times, by Gina Kolata, on Grants for Cancer Research. Here’s an excerpt from the original article: Yet the fight against cancer is going slower than most had hoped, with only small changes in the death rate in the ...
Blog Post - Nicholas Horton - Jun 30 2009 - 12:04pm
- More Health Care May Not Be A Great Idea
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Are individuals, families and employers getting their money's worth from US healthcare? You'd think not, given the media full court press by the Obama administration for a federal health care plan at a cost of trillions that will allegedly be pai ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2009 - 8:27pm
- Marie Curie Tops 10 Most Inspirational Female Scientists Poll
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L'Oréal and New Scientist today announced the results of a poll revealing the most inspirational female scientists of all time. Nuclear physicist and chemist Marie Curie topped the poll which was created to celebrate 10 years of the L'Oréal-UNESC ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2009 - 4:39pm
- Let's send The Fossil Huntress to Antarctica!
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Look what I found on Quark Expedition website! http://www.blogyourwaytoantarctica.com/blogs/view/257 In a nutshell, Quark is sponsoring a competition to send someone on an eco-cruise of Antarctica in order to blog for a week. The Fossil Huntress apparentl ...
Blog Post - Stephanie Pulford - Jul 3 2009 - 8:22pm
- How to Think, Say, or Do Precisely the Worst Thing for Any Occasion
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Who hasn't thought about starting a food fight at a formal dinner function? Telling your interviewer about some embarrassing personal story? The worst thing to do at the wrong time? And then the internal fight starts: "The impulse increases to a ...
Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 7 2009 - 2:00pm
- Imagine Cup 2009 Worldwide Winners
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After an intense competition among finalists chosen from a pool of more than 300,000 students from more than 100 countries and regions, Microsoft Corp. announced the winners of Imagine Cup 2009. Celebrating first place, Romania's Team SYTECH won the w ...
Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 9 2009 - 2:39pm
- Oops- What Happens If Your Government Sex Education Program Increases Teen Pregnancy?
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The Young People's Development Programme (YPDP) in England, a government-backed youth development pilot program aimed at reducing teenage pregnancies, drunkenness and cannabis use not only didn't reduce teenage pregnancies or drunkenness or marij ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2009 - 11:04pm
- Photo Shoots That Should Never Have Happened
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Photo Shoots that Should Never Be Done I'm sure I'm not the first to blog about this, but while I was out of the loop for a few days, someone made another hopeless attempt to make nerds look cool: Rock Stars of Science. Here's what it's ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Jul 8 2009 - 1:13pm
- Ice-T: refreshing drink, rapper, and...PhRMA shill?
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PhRMA is trying to up their street cred with the newest star pulled into its galaxy: rapper/actor Ice-T. Honestly, I like Ice-T. As one of the original hip-hoppers and pioneer of gangsta rap, he actuallly had some creativity and intelligence; he's spo ...
Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 9 2009 - 9:19am