10 Key Science Events Of 2011

10 Key Science Events Of 2011

The previous year has forced us to confront difficult science questions: Was processing patents Einstein’s real strength? Are there any other planets out there like Earth? Why is the universe…
Partisanship, Simplicity-Seeking, And Maladaptation

Partisanship, Simplicity-Seeking, And Maladaptation

“Malicious,” “diatribe,” and “preposterous” are words recently thrown at me. (How remarkable that I lived nearly 60 years before drawing this kind of vitriol. Maybe I haven’t been assertive enough!)…
Amy Bishop

Amy Bishop

http://news.yahoo.com/alabama-professor-cites-mental-defect-university-… "Neuroscience essentially turns into a bioethics class. She's a liberal from "Hahvahd" and let's you know exactly how she…
A Top 10 Science Stories Of 2011 List

A Top 10 Science Stories Of 2011 List

Los Alamos National Laboratory's top 10 science stories of 2011 include alternative energy research, world record magnetic fields, disease tracking, the study of Mars, climate change, fuel cells,…
Blue, Green, And The Color Of Corporate Personhood

Blue, Green, And The Color Of Corporate Personhood

Let me begin by saying that I bleed blue. Not Yankee blue or horseshoe crab copper — IBM Blue. I was raised on a corporate paycheck and through all the years my mother worked for the computing giant…
Public access open access science

Public access open access science

http://kipcurriercopyright.blogspot.com/2009/07/federal-research-public-... Andrew Richard Albanese, Publishers Weekly via Library Journal; Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) Reintroduced in…
Collaboration Culture In Science Blogging

Collaboration Culture In Science Blogging

Imagine a world where Discover, Nature Networks, Science 2.0, Scienceblogs, Discovery and all the others worked together.   Yes, yes, I know we all do on occasion, but those times are based on…