Education and Outreach
NPR has some great Black History Month coverage worth checking out, downloading and listening to. Visit npr.org or tune in to your local NPR station.
If you thought ScienceDebate2008 was just a scientist's pipe dream, it's time to think again!
Organizations of scientists, industrialists, and business leaders have joined an impressive list of individuals and associations declaring that science and technology are too important not to know where the presidential candidates stand.
Episode 7 of the Missing Link podcast has just been posted. This latest episode of my history of science, medicine, and technology podcast features an exploration of how ancient and present-day astronomers have challenged our common-sense notions of time.
Does Michael Crichton wear a tin hat?
The time is coming when students will be called upon to integrate Black History into their class courses. P leaseinsist that they do a report on someone who was at least alive in or born after 1950.
Will Kaiser/CDC admit we are infected with this? How will they react in the litterbox?
CDC produces Media Alert - Morgellons
How much of science is the data, how much is the presentation? The latest issue of Seed has an excellent quote form Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist at Case Western Reserve University:
A new study by University of Colorado at Boulder researchers indicates older, multi-year sea ice in the Arctic is giving way to younger, thinner ice, making it more susceptible to record summer sea-ice lows like the one that occurred in 2007.
A coalition of 17 organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Institute of Physics, and the National Science Teachers Association, is calling on the scientific community to become more involved in the promotion of science education, including evolution. According to an article appearing in the January 2008 issue of The FASEB Journal, the introduction of “non-science,” such as creationism and intelligent design, into science education will undermine the fundamentals of science education. Some of these fundamentals include using the scientific method, understanding how to reach scientific consensus, and distinguishing between scientific and nonscientific explanations of natural phenomena.
science.TV is a video-sharing website for people interested in science.
The aim is to create a platform for individuals and groups to communicate with each other, via pre-recorded and live video. It's interesting for scientists and programme-makers, because it cuts out the broadcaster and helps creators and audiences find each other and does away with the need for dumbing-down for mass appeal.
Attila Csordas at Partial Immortalization has given us some interesting crit. There's quite a bit that I want to say in response and I'll hopefully be doing a blogterview with Attila soon.
Science Debate 2008 is a nonpartisan effort to promote a public discussion of science and technology policy in the coming U.S. Presidential election.
Supported by numerous university presidents, Nobel Laureates, and other scientific leaders, the effort appears to have reached viability with the announcement of its co-chairs, two congressmen from different political parties.
The past seven years have shown what can happen if the President of the United States hears and sees only what supports his predispositions.
Science doesn't work that way. Don't you think it would be a good idea if someone organized a 2008 Presidential debate focused on science and Technology?
U.S. institutions awarded a record number of science and engineering (S&E) doctorates in the academic year ending in June 2006, charting their fourth consecutive annual increase and a 6.7 percent increase over 2005. According to new data released by the National Science Foundation (NSF) from the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), institutions awarded 29,854 S&E doctorates with biological sciences, computer sciences, mathematics, chemistry, social sciences and engineering reaching all time highs.
On Friday, 23. November 2007, Michel Zink (France), Collège de France,
Paris, received one of the four International Balzan Prizes 2007 for research in the area of European Literature (1000-1500). The prize has an
endowment of CHF 1 million (EUR 610 thousand).
