Science & Society

Save Newspapers by Banning Links?

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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?

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

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?

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