Ask A ScienceBlogger, Round Four: Justify My Funds?
Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger
Should scientists have to justify their work to the taxpayers who fund it?: the bloggers weigh in.
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May 31, 2006
Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger
Should scientists have to justify their work to the taxpayers who fund it?: the bloggers weigh in.
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May 24, 2006
Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger
"If you could shake the public and make them understand one scientific idea, what would it be?"
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May 22, 2006
Category: Seed
In the April-May issue of Seed, Josh Braun wrote that the Center for Biological Diversity was moving to get two species of coral & the polar bear listed under the Endangered Species Act. The NY Times article on the news...
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May 17, 2006
Category: ScienceBlogs
Will the 'human' race be around in 100 years?
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May 16, 2006
Category: Medicine
My introduction to bioethics came with the issue of in vitro fertilization. I was a student at UC Santa Barbara, designing my own major in science journalism, talking with scientists, reading every science-related news item I could find, and just...
Posted by Joshua Braun at 11:55 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 12, 2006
Category: Commentary
Steve Petermann of ID blog Telic Thoughts just posted (warning, link to ID blog) on Google Trends. He says:...
Posted by Maggie Wittlin at 4:13 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: ScienceBlogs
Sb editors talk with Janet Stemwedel of 'Adventures in Ethics and Science,' who presents her views on plagiarism in the sciences.
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May 11, 2006
Category: ScienceBlogs
From atomic weapons to the Ab Lounge: ScienceBloggers' picks for the invention they'd most like to dis-invent.
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May 10, 2006
Category: Environment
Organic foods from your supermarket may comply with the requirements of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Organic Program, but are you really buying what you think you're buying? Many people "go organic" because they want to buy family-farmed, locally-operated produce. But as Steven Shapin points out in the New Yorker, most organic food sold in grocery stores is anything but. Earthbound Farm, a major organic produce supplier for Whole Foods, has projected revenues for 2006 of more than $450 million, and farms more than 26,000 acres. Doesn't sound so quaint anymore, does it.
Posted by Melinda Wenner at 12:03 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 8, 2006
Category: Things We Like
This first-hand story, as its author notes, "isn't for the faint hearted and for some should not be read while eating."
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