Science & Society

University Science Writing Competition

Last week we revealed the Top 10 Schools for Science based on the results of a 3-year study performed by US News&World Report. The study ranked the nation’s best science graduate programs, based upon the results of surveys sent to academics in Biologic ...

Article - Community Connect... - Feb 24 2010 - 6:53pm

My Evening With Paranormalists

A few days ago a local skeptic group here in Brooklyn organized a roundtable discussion on the concept of the paranormal. We thought this was going to be a chat about what people mean by that term, how one goes about investigating alleged cases of paranorm ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Aug 18 2009 - 12:58pm

Save Money With Climate Science By Giving It To Us- Climate Scientists

Bernie Madoff recently got a jail sentence for promising a huge return on investment in defiance of common sense. New research published by scientists from the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) in the Bulletin for the American Meteor ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 19 2009 - 9:15pm

Notes From The Underground At The AAAS

The Pacific Region of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, "the world's largest general scientific society") includes some of the best universities in the world, located on the Pacific coast of the US. So it was wit ...

Article - Michael White - Aug 20 2009 - 10:30pm

Science Of Fine Wines Event

Last night we attended the "Science of Fine Wines" event in support of the Sacramento Discovery Science&Space Museum. This was, as you can imagine, not a hard science event.   The Museum itself is devoted primarily to helping kids understand ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 22 2009 - 12:58pm

Are you smarter than 90% of the public?

I assume so, given that you're on Scientific Blogging. But if you have any lingering doubts, take the Pew Research Center's Science Knowledge quiz. It's a quick 12-question quiz about basic scientific ideas, kicking off with the great colorf ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Aug 22 2009 - 3:19pm

As Obesity Rises, More Young Kids Concerned About Body Image (And Boys Have It Worst)

Obesity has increased dramatically in the last two decades, yet so have awareness campaigns saying appearance does not matter.    The cultural miasma is hardest on its youngest members and even kids aged 10 and 11 are concerned about their image, according ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2009 - 3:10pm

Historically, Taking Economic Advice From The Media Is A Bad Idea

If you listened to the media, a bailout of GM was good for investors.  A few months later, the stock was wiped out.   But if you paid attention to Ford Motor Company while the media ignored them, who said a bailout was a terrific idea for its competitors a ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2009 - 1:05pm

Summer Reading: British Sci-Fi

This summer I discovered a new (to me) literary genre: post-war British Sci-Fi. The decades after WWII were (not surprisingly) rather rough on the Brits, and the zeitgeist found an interesting outlet in science fiction. What makes these books so awesome? P ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Aug 26 2009 - 8:51pm

Scientific Blogging Top 10 Graduate Schools Writing Competition Begins Next Week

Scientific Blogging's University Writing Competition kicks off next Tuesday, September 1st.  There's been a lot of buzz and excitement about our first-ever writing competition that will give one lucky grad student a $2,500 cash prize, and a paid ...

Article - Community Connect... - Feb 24 2010 - 6:53pm