Science & Society
- PhDs and Diapers
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Connecting my earlier post on PhD job realities and Melissa's blog post on Entitlement Culture is today's Ph.D comic (by Jorge Cham): Alex, the Daytime Astronomer ...
Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jan 12 2010 - 10:38am
- Carbon Tax Or Carbon 'Offset'? Labels Influence Public Policy
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Policy makers and lobbyists who want to enact a carbon tax would do well to choose their words carefully, say Columbia University Psychologists. In a new study in Psychological Science, the research team suggests that since voters typically don't like ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2010 - 2:06pm
- Are You Going To The AAAS Meeting In San Diego?
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The annual AAAS conference is being held next month in San Diego and I went last year (here and here and here), despite it being a Chicago February, but most of you did not, thus the reason for the title. ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 12 2010 - 3:45pm
- Should Federally Funded Research Be Available To The Public?
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An expert panel of library scientists, publishers, and university academics said today that the results of scientific research funded by the federal government should be made freely available to the public "as soon as possible after those results have ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2010 - 11:56am
- Wrapped like an Egyptian
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The strangest idea for a reality TV show that I've heard to date comes courtesy of Slashdot this morning. "Terminal illness got you down? Does your future seems bleak? Channel 4 and production company Fulcrum TV would like to brighten your day by ...
Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jan 14 2010 - 9:47am
- Web Favorite: Most Misused Physics Terms Reference
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While marking old science books as keepers or giveaways, I paused to browse through an old favorite and modern classic published in 1979, the famous "physics for philosophers" book, " The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics ...
Blog Post - Anonymous - Jan 17 2010 - 10:20am
- Let me hear from you on this
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Let's face it, in practice, science is what scientists do. Then, who's a scientist? Simply delivered, a human with values. Well, our humanity has had plenty of practice in that realm. Remember William Osler for instance. His recommendation for a ...
Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Jan 18 2010 - 8:24am
- New Technology, New Insanity
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Via Nobel Intent: A man with the non-existent but increasingly believed-in electromagnetic sensitivity disorder is suing his neighbor to get her to shut off her wi-fi and stop using her cell phone. Apparently, fluorescent lights and dimmer switches are bad ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 18 2010 - 12:49pm
- Why Hit Books, Movies, and Music Suck
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And why they make a lot of money, according to The Economist: ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 18 2010 - 5:01pm
- Takedown of Creationist Information Theory
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Jeffrey Shallit takes down creationist nonsense about information theory in Stephen Meyer's latest creationist offering, Signature in the Cell: In Signature in the Cell, Meyer talks about three different kinds of information: Shannon information, Kolm ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 19 2010 - 6:00am
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