Presidential Hopefuls Ponder Innovation
BusinessWeek also asked each candidate how they would increase innovation in science and engineering education, green energy, and the military. Answers were consistent and predictable: increase funding for education, invest in non-oil ...
Robert Berdan: Photography, Art and Science
Recently, I stumbled across Robert Berdan's collection of amazing photos on the websites Moods of Nature and Science and Art. The picture to the left shows a caffeine crystal under a polarized light microscope, which allows one to ...
Seeding art in science - and vice versa
The Nov/Dec issue of Seed features an interesting article by Jonah Lehrer on science and art. It’sa short read, but it touches on most of the big issues at that intersection, primarily through the lens of neurobiology. ...
Political Science
(November 28, 2007 08:21 PM, by Arnold Kling) Terence Jeffrey writes, "The growing political importance of unmarried women is undergirded by a demographic shift that is fundamentally changing...
Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (Popular Science Media)
There are 51 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. The anthology should be published in time for the event. ...
Science, Ethics and Controversies
An essay in today’s issue of Nature struck a contentious cord at the intersection of modern science and politics: that of the ethical regulation of science. The context of ethics and science was succinctly summed up: ...
little chance of mending the science-religion fence, winter dreams ...
In all of the history of science, only one other disparity of comparable magnitude to evolution has occurred between a scientific event and the impact it has had on the public mind. This was the discovery by Copernicus that Earth, ...
More video in science communication
A bit slow to notice this one: BioMed Central YouTube channel debuts:. We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new BioMed Central YouTube channel, which brings together videos of our authors and editors talking about their work, ...
Annual Science Conference (29/11/07)
The 2008 Annual Science Conference website is now available. More information about the theme sessions will follow. Click to see the site.
State Science Curriculum Director Fired For Believing In Science
"Creationism" is not science. You can call it whatever you want to call it, but trying to insert the religious...excuse me, Christian teachings, into science education is not science. The mere fact that I have to continually point this ...