Lure of the Professor

Lure of the Professor

As I wrote on facebook (for the sign of a professional writer is 'reuse words often'): It's official! As of today I am Professor Antunes, an aerospace engineering assistant professor at Capitol…
Ambiguous Science and Politics

Ambiguous Science and Politics

As some of you may be aware, this year the U.S. Congress finally passed the Zadroga Act which will compensate the first responders to the 9/11 attack as well as those that worked at the site for the…
Scientists Versus Journalists - Again

Scientists Versus Journalists - Again

Science 2.0 was founded because, contrary to the beliefs of some scientists and some journalists, the public is really, really smart.  And they know a lot of science, they just frame it through…
Academics About God

Academics About God

Science and religion. Often mutual suspicion, sometimes plain hostility, seldom a workable combination. When the active inquiry in science meets the passive belief in religion, worldviews…ideologies…
The Education Effect On Religious Belief

The Education Effect On Religious Belief

Our more militant brethren in the science and science media community paint all religious people as intellectually immature but AAAS surveys show nearly 40 percent of AAAS members are religious and a…
Scientists And Family Life - The Price They Pay

Scientists And Family Life - The Price They Pay

Almost 50% of female scientists and 25% of male scientists at the nation's top research universities say career kept them from having as many children as they wanted, something they might do over…
Is Wikipedia Sexist Too?

Is Wikipedia Sexist Too?

In Proofiness - How Gender And Pay Statistics Are Used To Do Bad Things, I noted that some of the statistics regarding gender and pay in science were misconstrued to make it look like science…