Science & Society

Biologist And Former Dominican Wins £1 Million Templeton Prize For Science And Religion

"Francisco J. Ayala, an evolutionary geneticist and molecular biologist who has vigorously opposed the entanglement of science and religion while also calling for mutual respect between the two, has won the 2010 Templeton Prize." Yet again the pr ...

Article - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 28 2010 - 2:12am

Life Before Life" A Case For Life After Life

"When I was your age, I used to change your diapers," said eighteen month old Sam Taylor to his father. Two years later, Sam correctly picked out his grandfather from a photo of his grammar school class of 27 children, shouting "That's ...

Blog Post - Diana Deregnier - Mar 30 2010 - 9:16pm

Skeptical Weathercasters To Report On Climate Change

A survey of television weathercasters conducted by George Mason University researchers shows that two-thirds are interested in reporting on climate change, and more than half are skeptics of the phenomenon. The survey comes at a time when only a handful of ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 29 2010 - 10:32am

Media rights and wrongs

If you want to believe news reports Prf. James Lovelock think we are too stupid to stop climate change. What he actually said was "I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle as complex a situation ...

Blog Post - Mo Ackermann - Mar 30 2010 - 3:59pm

Blogging As Personal RAM

I forget how I ran across this link, but this blogger reflects on how six years of blogging has helped his work as a political analyst: ...

Article - Michael White - Oct 1 2010 - 1:08pm

Gene Patents Gone

The big news in biotech this week is the court ruling against Myriad Genetics and gene patents. As Genomics Law Report discusses, this was an overwhelming win for the plaintiffs (which included the ACLU and various research and patients' organizations ...

Article - Michael White - Mar 31 2010 - 12:25pm

Autism Awareness Month

The month of April is National Autism Awareness month. Because this is a subject that touches many, and is frequently a topic of discussion not only on this site- but across the entire world of media and journalism – ScientificBlogging will be presenting a ...

Article - Kimberly Crandell - Apr 26 2010 - 12:50pm

Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi: Dhalgren

Apocalyptic Sci-Fi: Dhalgren Dhalgren is an unconventional but outstanding post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel, and New York Magazine has an excellent feature piece on the book this month: ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Apr 1 2010 - 8:52pm

Simon Singh Wins- US Law To The Rescue!

Simon Singh Wins- US Law To The Rescue! The British Courts do not indulge themselves in bogus judgements- not even on April 1st. This article is genuine. A note on common law: Both the US and the UK are common law jurisdictions.  British courts will accor ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 3 2010 - 4:46am

A Simple Statement About Complexity

I was working on a paper recently, and my boss included a editing note that got me thinking.  The topic dealt with certain circuits in the limbic network of the brain.  The note included the line: "limbic connections are very complex".   The poin ...

Article - David Sloan - Apr 4 2010 - 11:20am