Science for a Brave New World
Is there a certain suite of legislation that needs to be passed now in order to provide a greater assurance of scientific good in the near future?Posted on May 14, 2008 7:20 PM • 1 Comments •
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An Oxford graduate student by day and a scientific activist by night, Nick Anthis isn't letting his Ph.D. research in protein structure get in the way of defending scientific and social progress.
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An Open Letter to Texas Regarding the Forced Resignation of Chris Comer
If you work for the Texas Education Agency, don't even think about not being neutral about the teaching of intelligent design in science classrooms.Posted on November 29, 2007 3:30 PM • 11 Comments •
ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge Raises over $69,000 for Science Classrooms
Thursday was the last day of the month-long DonorsChoose challenge, and ScienceBlogs did incredibly well. You can view the full leaderboard here, but Janet of Adventures in Ethics and Science offers these details: 20 Sb blogs mounted challenges; 12 of...Posted on November 3, 2007 12:08 PM • 0 Comments •
DonorsChoose Bloggers Challenge Update
We've raised $295 at The Scientific Activist on just one week, but we still have $705 to go.Posted on October 8, 2007 6:00 PM • 0 Comments •
ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge 2007: Let's Raise Some Money for Science Classrooms!
It's that time of the year again, so give early and give often!Posted on October 1, 2007 9:39 AM • 0 Comments •
Free DonorsChoose Gift Certificates Available from Six Apart Until Noon Today
This announcement is related to another bigger one that's coming in just a few hours. Six Apart (who runs MovableType, the blogging platform we use at ScienceBlogs) is giving away $30 philanthropic gift certificates for use on DonorsChoose. The only...Posted on October 1, 2007 7:01 AM • 0 Comments •
Academic Research: Solving Puzzles or Solving Mysteries?
My message to undergraduate researchers.Posted on September 12, 2007 6:48 PM • 1 Comments •
Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Good Science-Related Causes
A categorized list of several worthy causes for readers interested in supporting those working for the progress of science in our society.Posted on September 4, 2006 7:37 AM • 4 Comments •
Pluto: The (Really) Broader Social Context
For such a small planet (or non-planet now), Pluto sure has been making waves the last couple of weeks. I haven't really weighed in and instead deferred to the experts. I'm not going to really say much now either, but,...Posted on August 29, 2006 7:41 AM • 4 Comments •
Fantastical Fridays: Evolutionary Biology No Longer a Science
...according the US Department of Education, at least!Posted on August 25, 2006 7:40 AM • 7 Comments •
Fantastical Fridays: The End of the Hard Sciences?
It has been known officially since 2002 that the sciences are hard, and, as much as we scientists love it when our friends and family tell us how smart and wonderful we must be since they could never understand what...Posted on August 18, 2006 8:10 AM • 3 Comments •
Results of DonorsChoose Challenge
The ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge is now officially over, and Janet Stemwedel has the results at Adventures in Ethics and Science: 195 of you made donations. Together, those donations added up to $16,097.27. You also helped 4 of the 19 challenges meet...Posted on July 2, 2006 6:10 PM • 2 Comments •
Ask a ScienceBlogger: Being a Good Science Teacher
Most of the general qualities that make someone a good teacher in any subject translate to the sciences, but I think there are three things in particular that good science teachers do really well: showing enthusiasm, making things interactive, and drawing connections.Posted on June 28, 2006 7:28 PM • 0 Comments •
DonorsChoose Update
The latest word on the ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose fundraising challenge is that as of Tuesday the total amount of donations had reached $12,325.59, plus $10,000 in matching funds from Seed. Here at The Scientific Activist we've raised $345.00 in generous donations, bringing...Posted on June 22, 2006 7:08 PM • 0 Comments •
World's Science Academies Endorse Teaching of Evolution (Duh!)
Today, the Interacademy Panel on International Issues (IAP), an organization of 92 scientific academies from around the globe, released a statement endorsing the importance of teaching evolution as a fundamental scientific principle. The IAP emphasizes several uncontested evolutionary facts and stresses the need to teach science as a means of describing nature through a process of inquiry, fundamentally built upon the formulation of testable and refutable hypothesis.Posted on June 21, 2006 8:24 PM • 2 Comments •
ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge Off to a Great Start
As I've spent my entire weekend alternatively sitting in front of a ginormous magnet running NMR experiments and in front of a computer screen analyzing the data from those experiments, the blogging has unfortunately been light. However, I just wanted...Posted on June 18, 2006 8:40 PM • 2 Comments •
Fantastical Fridays: Organic People Chemistry
Lurking beneath the surface here at ScienceBlogs is a force that compels people to do extremely gimmicky things on Fridays. Since I know that I'm no better than anyone else, I've decided to join in on the fun. Therefore, I...Posted on June 16, 2006 8:55 AM • 9 Comments •
Help ScienceBlogs Raise Money for Science Classrooms
DonorsChoose.org gives us a way to help teachers get the job done. A bunch of us at ScienceBlogs have set up Bloggers Challenges which will let us (and that includes you) contribute to worthy school projects in need of financial assistance. We'll be able to track our progress right on the DonorsChoose site. And -- because we like a little friendly competition -- we'll be updating you periodically as to which blogger's readers are getting his or her challenge closest to its goal.Posted on June 15, 2006 9:15 AM • 0 Comments •
Is Oxford Shortchanging Its Students Through Overspecialization?
When an Oxford professor blamed a lack of general knowledge in the graduate community on its makeup of "unexceptional students", I challenged him on whether the real cause was a degree structure that causes the overspecialization of Oxford students.Posted on June 13, 2006 9:21 PM • 6 Comments •
