I didn't know that Christmas was associated with hangovers, but apparently in Britain it is. Whatever gets you through family time, I guess. Anyway, the venerable BMJ dedicated some quality space to…

Two articles addressing blogging and science have appeared recently in Trends in Ecology and Evolution and in PLoS Biology. Bloggers John Wilkins, Shelly Batts, Nick Anthis and Tara Smith write…

If you're man, and you give to charity at all, it is more likely to go to a needy person in your neighborhood but if you're a woman you are more likely to be charitable and you will also give to…

In a study published in the Christmas 2008 issue of the British Medical Journal (and not one of their prank articles), Aaron Carroll, M.D., M.S., and Rachel Vreeman, M.D., M.S., of the Indiana…

As you can imagine, running a swanky science publication ends up getting me a lot of press releases.   People want to get the word out about what they are doing and I make no secret of the fact…

I can relate to Olivia Judson's experience with the digitization of science journals: On the good side, instead of hauling dusty volumes off shelves and standing over the photocopier, I sit…

If you're comfortably entrenched at the University of Maryland and not worried about a mortgage like Michigan autoworkers, you can understand why it's important that there will be debate about the…

Anyone surprised? The inspector general of the Interior Department has found that agency officials often interfered with scientific work in order to limit protections for species at risk of becoming…

"This article says most people die in bed.  I figure if I stay out of bed, I'm safe." - Get Shorty A map of natural hazard mortality in the United States has been produced and is featured in the…

An editor at Nature discusses the internet and the ethics of science communication (PDF). The paper doesn't turn out to be much of a discussion of science communication on the web - the piece ends up…