Having returned from a Polymer Physics conference a couple of days ago, I felt the need to read one of the masters of the subject, Nobel laureate Pierre-Gilles de Gennes.   I came across…

In creating a science site for kids (that would be Kids Science Zone - if you haven't written anything there, feel free to do so) , the majority of comments I have gotten have been likely about the…

Peter Lawrence in PLoS Biology writes about the story of K.: It is a summer day in 2009 in Cambridge, England, and K. (39) looks out of his lab window, wondering why he chose the life of a scientist…

Are scientists press shy?    Are researchers who engage journalists ridiculed by other researchers as not serious enough?    No, according to a new study by University of…

What does peer review do for science and what does the scientific community want it to do?  Should peer review detect fraud and misconduct? Does peer review illuminate good ideas or shut them…

I received an interesting question today from an Alex Ziller in the comments thread of a recent post. Here it is: Do you think blogging actually improves Science? (I know, one should first define…

Right now I'm asking myself why I spent 100+ hours carefully writing a grant proposal that was destined to not get a serious reading. Below are dueling comments from the same reviewer (for the sake…

Everyone says they want to get kids to get a better science - now we can all actually do something about it. We're doing a small beta test of our Science For Kids site.(1)  It isn't perfect yet…

We've all slogged through books in school that we didn't particularly like, wondering how knowing how to interpret the deeper subtexts of the oligarchial collectivist society in Orwell's 1984 will…

Tyler Cowen says the prevalence of individuals falling within autism spectrum make American academe competitive: A lot of people at colleges are aware of dealing with autism (and Asperger's syndrome…