This isn't news anymore (see here, and here), but Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief of Science has weighed in on the out-of-whack system of incentives in the biomedical sciences: Assuming that the…

Many a parent has been driven to the point of madness by successive "why?" questions from preschoolers, but it's a good sign that they ask and they do better if they get a detailed explanation than…

Recently I was interviewed by Pouria Nazemi, Science Editor of the Jam-e-Jam Daily Newspaper.  Jam-e-Jam is the principal Iranian newspaper and is controlled by the government.  In the wake…

Let me describe two very different academic careers.I. Dr. X chose a Ph.D. advisor with a reputation for being not very demanding. Now Dr. X’s every effort is aimed at maximizing his publication…

While more than half the academic life science researchers responding to a 2007 survey indicated having some relationship with private industry, the prevalence of such relationships – particularly…

DNA GENDER CHANGE NOW POSSIBLE BY BMT-RECIPIENT Y CHROMOSOME KNOCKED OUT AND X CHROMOSOME DOUBLED IN HUMANS     It is widely known that the blood karyotype of bone marrow transplant…

From a news story in today's issue of Science: A new study finds little evidence for leaks in the U.S. pipeline for producing native-born scientists except for a steep drop in the percentage of the…

Harvard Magazine excerpts Louis Menand on "Professionalization in the academy. If you're thinking of going to graduate school, you need to read this. This is the premise behind academic scholarship:…

You've heard of the Discovery Channel - if you want to learn about sharks, they're the place to go.   Heck, they even whacked me this summer as part of their promotional campaign. Unfortunately…

The performative and improvisatory aspects of music compares favorably with the temporal, polyphonic aspects of scholarly research,  says University of Illinois professor of education Liora…