This Week in Science
Planned Parenthood has a blog and they're understandably pissed off at the Bush-Cheney-Palin-McCain axis of evil and ignorance for, well, for a shitload of reasons as you can imagine. The most recent being as the economy crumbles, ...
Heresy versus Science
In science, refuting an accepted belief is celebrated as an advance in knowledge; in religion it is condemned as heresy. via Fred Singer.
The community comments on why Open Science/Research won’t work
I know what Open Science/Research is, but the graduate student down the hall does not, and he or she has many other important things than “waste time with the hell of OS/R”. I don’t have a short attention span, but the grad student down ...
Biology in Science Fiction Roundup: November 16 Edition
Carl Zimmer has a great science fiction idea: aliens whose skin turns green from the plants they eat. It's based on the real science emerald green sea slugs that turn green from plant matter they retain in their skin from the algae they ...
Science blog meme: Why do we blog?
Already did, I left science after my undergraduate degree to work in industry, but came back after six years to do a PhD. Can’t see myself leaving again. I don’t think Science ever really leaves you, once a scientist, always a scientist ...
Some Computer Science Issues in Creating a Sustainable World
The advent of the National Science Foundation’s Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation initiative (www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108366) highlights the increased interest among researchers in applying innovations in ...
The Science Blog meme
I guess I noticed a stronger flux of science related blogs pop up around 2 years ago. And therefore the DNA Network came about as a form to connect bloggers of topics that I find interesting. There are now many science blogging networks ...
Bike Science
Andy writes: This is all your fault, you know: a bike-riding forum I hang out on had a "check out these science tattoos!" thread, and it got me to thinking: what bicycle science tats are there? I'd just celebrated my 25th year in the ...
Episode 21 - Dr. Kiki, Never Too Cool for Science
After showing her your podcasts, [my daughter] has discovered that it is not only possible but very rad to be both smart and interested in science but to like fashion and lip gloss at the same time. We talked with Dr. ...
Meet the Arab Agency for Science News
"The Arabic website, called the Arab Agency for Science News, will collect stories from around the Arab region through an extensive network of reporters," said Mohammed Yahia, in an article for SciDev. ...