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Randy Olson's movie A Flock of Dodos comes up again and again in the course of arguments about public communication of science, but I had never gotten around to seeing it. I finally put it on the Netflix queue, and...
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Posted on April 30, 2008 8:26 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Thoughts on the dynamic weighting of "core values."
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Posted on April 11, 2008 8:10 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Inside Higher Ed notes in passing that several NCAA Presidents are complaining about alcohol advertising during the NCAA Tournament. The source for this is a study by the Center for Science in the Public Interest: According to CSPI's analysis of...
Posted on April 10, 2008 6:56 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What's the cost of not framing? Me, and people like me.
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Posted on April 4, 2008 9:17 AM • 81 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Chris Mooney and Matt Nisbet have made some tactical errors, but they're more right than wrong, given what they want to accomplish.
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Posted on April 3, 2008 10:42 AM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Michael Nielsen is planning to attend an "unconference" and is considering possible topics. He quotes one from Eva Amsen: My idea: find 4 or 5 volunteers from different backgrounds to sit on a 20 minute panel and (with audience feedback)...
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Posted on March 3, 2008 10:21 AM • 39 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Notes from a discussion of physics and politics with one of the local frats.
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Posted on March 1, 2008 9:50 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
EurekAlert tossed up a press release from the University of Minnesota yesterday with the provocative title: "U of Minn researchers find primary alcohol prevention programs are needed for 'tweens'" and the even more eye-popping subtitle "Study recommends that prevention programs...
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Posted on February 28, 2008 8:49 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What would be a good shocking statement about physics and politics that would spark discussion with frat boys?
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Posted on February 26, 2008 11:05 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If $3 billion were yours to spend on scientific research, how would you spend the money?
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Posted on February 20, 2008 9:31 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Chris and Sheril have been working tirelessly to make a Presidential Science Debate happen, and there's been real progress: ScienceDebate2008 is now co-sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academies, and the Council on Competitiveness....
Posted on February 12, 2008 10:45 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Send letters to Congress asking for a supplemental budget bill to restore lost science funding, using a web tool.
Posted on January 30, 2008 8:44 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Congress was able to cut funding for science programs because we have failed at our jobs as scientists.
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Posted on January 9, 2008 9:28 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
We need the scientific community to stop acting like indie rockers with math skills.
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Posted on December 17, 2007 11:40 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Following on an article in Seed and an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, ScienceBloggers Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum (of The Intersection) have teamed up with a bunch of other smart people to launch Sciencedebate 2008: Given the many...
Posted on December 10, 2007 2:42 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is a desperately stupid bit of work, even by the standards of desperately stupid science interludes in Gregg Easterbrook columns. He packs more dumb into these nine paragraphs than I would've thought possible in a major media outlet. This isn't your ordinary, everyday stupid, it's Discovery Institute stupid.
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Posted on November 21, 2007 8:51 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Prof. Orzel gives the impression of an everyday guy who just happens to have a vast but hidden knowledge of physics." (anonymous student evaluation comment)
