Bias And Balance There is a founding principle in law: audi alteram partem. It is Latin, and means, literally "Hear the other side." It refers to a principle of fairness, justice and ethics: the…

Listen to Mars, now listen to me, now listen to Mars. This is what Mars could sound like, if it sounded like me. Today, we listen to sonification of data, artistic interpretation, and discuss which…

Jason Hoyt, Ph.D., is Chief Scientist and VP of R&D at Mendeley, and asks researchers which side they want to be on in the march of history - legacy toll access to results or open access of both…

Yesterday, JR Minkel tweeted this: @jrminkel The most striking science analogy I've ever heard: http://bit.ly/auGvp4 The link leads to a brief excerpt from an NPR story in which Johns Hopkins…

M.A.D. 2.0 The greatest fear of mankind after World War 2 was the real possibility of a World War 3. It was a rational fear of a very real threat: the global destruction of civilization. Nations,…

Tylophora Indica ( Asclepiadaceae)   Root or leaf powder is used in diarrhoea, dysentery and intermittent fever. Dried leaves are emetic diaphoretic and expectorant. It is regarded as one…

I needed a good laugh this morning, so a tip of the hat to Fox News for the welcome relief. On the Google News homepage, I saw this humdinger of a headline: "Fox on Sex: 5 Ways to Get Your Wife to…

A couple months shy of a year ago, I was raving about the news that a new giant squid documentary was in the works. Guess what? It's still in the works! If this weren't so deadly serious (joke) I'd…

Fix can mean to repair or to gimmick, as in 'the fix is in'.  I'm not going to tell you how to repair science journalism.  A few wingnuts stalwarts here at Science 2.0 beat that to death.…

LONDON, August 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Against all odds, traditional advertising is perceived by consumers as more informative, entertaining and necessary than online advertising. Of more than 1,200…