Science & Society

I love the Nobel Prize...(and foam, sometimes)

I always like to hear who got the Nobel Prize (well at least the one in medicine, anyway- I am definitely not a physics person), because lately it is almost someone who researched something that I remember learning about in school, when it was "new&qu ...

Blog Post - Mrs. H. - Oct 6 2009 - 6:24pm

Is this site opened for phishers?

I start my activity on these pages by pointing to a security problem we have here. I found it when viewing one of my comments to a news article where a new comment appeared: http://www.scientificblogging.com/comments/24095/Re_2009_Peer_Review_Survey_Issues ...

Blog Post - Ladislav Kocbach - Oct 7 2009 - 8:57am

Discrimination Will Never Not Happen But 'Gender Fatigue' Leads To Diminishing Returns

No country is immune from gender discrimination, says the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Report, and most companies feel like they are gender neutral and perhaps are- but because people and perceptions are different it's dificult to say what i ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2009 - 12:19pm

New Giant Squid Show Airing in 2010

Mark your calendars! A Japanese broadcaster is joining forces with the Science Channel and renowned giant squid biologist Tsunemi Kubodera (the guy who went fishing with a long string and a bag of shrimp) on an "international quest to find and film a ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 12 2009 - 7:10pm

Philosophies of Evaluation (and the New OMB Directive)

It often falls to the management scientist to evaluate how well a program (in the private, non-profit, or government sector) is performing.  There is a great number of ways to go about this task.  This article discusses some of the ways to evaluate a prog ...

Blog Post - Fred Phillips - Oct 13 2009 - 12:50am

seaQuest and the Giant Not-Squid

Have you ever known--I mean, been absolutely certain--that you were going to die? That's how seaQuest 's Lt. Krieg felt, when a sea monster grabbed his submersible and gave it a good shaking. He survived, and made it back to the main ship, where ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 13 2009 - 11:57pm

Public Risk: The Trust Factor

It seems simple enough to answer the question whether something poses a risk or not.  The answers can only be "yes", "no", or "we don't know".  A "yes" response would then be qualified by the probability or like ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Oct 14 2009 - 6:50pm

Sean Carroll is National Book Award Finalist

One of the best books on evolution to come out in this year of Darwin celebrations, Sean Carroll's Remarkable Creatures, is a National Book Award finalist. ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 15 2009 - 1:38pm

The Framing Impact On The National Health Care Debate

When Republicans were told, as part of a recent study, that diabetes results from social factors that mitigate personal responsibility, like a lack of neighborhood grocery stores or government-funded places to exercise, they were not inclined to want to en ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 15 2009 - 7:54pm

Nobels Prizes and Corporate Labs

I'm inclined to agree with this: The problem the country faces is that the conditions in which Charles Kao, Willard Boyle, and George Smith made their breakthroughs are harder to come by today. Kao, for example, made his breakthroughs in fiber optics ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 16 2009 - 1:37pm