Science & Society
- I See Dumb People
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Just a quick thought, prompted by my response to " TV as Teacher ". We can blame the corporate media for pumping our kids full of distorted values and promoting gross stupidity, but the thing is, they're doing the same to the kids' pare ...
Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 7 2010 - 3:23am
- Cherry Picking At The Tree Of Knowledge
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Cherry Picking At The Tree Of Knowledge The fruit of the cherry is easily spoiled: rough handling, bird pecks, insect bites, mold- all can render the cherry unappealing or inedible. The cherry picker is trained to pick only the best cherries: the ones tha ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 7 2010 - 9:36am
- Genetics, Eugenics and Autism. It is not too late for action. (reprint)
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It is a while since I wrote anything here: Mea Culpa, I shall eventually resume the series I started, but for now I feel there are more urgent and important issues at stake, for which reason I will move something from my other blog over to this forum wher ...
Blog Post - Laurence Arnold - Mar 7 2010 - 11:18am
- UK Parliament Debates Climate Science Report
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UK Parliament Debates Climate Science Report If somebody is in favor of making our planet a better place to live, you can bet your life that somebody with a louder voice is against it. Demonstrating that, at least in political attitudes to science, there ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 8 2010 - 7:27am
- Godfrey Bloom Demands Re-evaluation Of IPCC Re-evaluation
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Godfrey Bloom Demands Re-evaluation Of IPCC Re-evaluation Godfrey Bloom MEP bemoans the fact that: "There appears to be a woeful lack of candour and commonsense in modern day politicians. " ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 8 2010 - 8:34pm
- Uh Oh: Member Turnover And Diversity Essential For Online Communities
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If you want to have staying power on the Internet, you need to have turnover, says a new analysis published in the Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work. Not only do you need to be 'heterogeneous', you need ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 8 2010 - 10:55pm
- Can you sabotage your career by blogging?
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Do scientists hate scientists who talk to the public? From an old piece by Jared Diamond: ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Mar 8 2010 - 4:01pm
- Laboratory Evidence That Cooperative Behavior Is Contagious?
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In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the University of California, San Diego and Harvard say they have provided the first laboratory evidence that cooperative behavior is contagious. Researchers sho ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 8 2010 - 7:29pm
- A Classic Waste Of Breath
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A Classic Waste Of Breath An argument that a thing is natural, therefore not a cause of concern, is used greatly in modern times, most especially in connection with the arguments over whether or not we puny humans can interfere with natural environmental ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 9 2010 - 9:43am
- A Woeful Lack Of Candour
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A Woeful Lack Of Candour In a recent article I wrote: Godfrey Bloom MEP bemoans the fact that: "There appears to be a woeful lack of candour and commonsense in modern day politicians." Godfrey Bloom is an MEP- a politician. His party is called ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 9 2010 - 1:10pm
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