All manner of human creativity on display
David Ng is Director of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory at the University of British Columbia - this is a just a fancier way of calling himself a science teacher.
Benjamin Cohen is an Asst. Professor of Science, Tech., and Society at the University of Virginia. He studies the place of S & T in environmental history, policy, and ethics. He also writes other stuff.
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February 29, 2008
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Worst Science Job 2007 - Hazmat Diver Dave Semeniuk over at the Terry blog has posed an interesting question. Namely, what are the worst jobs in the humanities? (Another pandering to the two culture debate?) The question is framed...
Posted by David Ng at 9:04 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
(Speaking of the arts and science divide) a couple weeks ago, I ran a few lab exercises that revolve around the use of software to city planning, especially as it pertains to issues of sustainability (there's even an online version...
Posted by David Ng at 8:49 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 28, 2008
Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
I'm sort of putting the finishing touches to today's GMO lecture in my ART+SCIENCE class, but before I move on from the land of sustainability, here is a TEDtalks lecture I quite enjoyed about the problem with space and why...
Posted by David Ng at 4:07 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 27, 2008
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Is there an arrogant/sleepy divide in academia? A PowerPoint/chalkboard divide?
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 9:15 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 26, 2008
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Solzhenitsyn and Borges as bookends; in between, order and randomness
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:15 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2008
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
A comment about bombs and mercury and Communists and theater and world history
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:30 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 21, 2008
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
19 February 2008 was historic: here is what it suggests about the future of alternative energy and our fossil fuel lifestyle
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 9:00 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 20, 2008
Category: Mountaintop Coal Removal
Type in your zip code to find out the nearest coal-burning facility and its coal source.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 11:30 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: About writing generally
Pen Names in the Digital Age: wither the pseudonym? Plus the must-read of the day.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 10:30 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 15, 2008
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
Within our lifetimes, energy consumption will increase at least two-fold, from our current burn rate of 12.8 TW to 28 - 35 TW by 2050
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 2:30 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Image from the FILTER Another Valentine's Day passed, which for me was pretty low key (I had to teach a class until 9pm). Anyway, it kind of made me wonder what the average romantic inclinations of the scientifically minded...
Posted by David Ng at 11:48 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: About writing generally
A few days ago, I wrote about a neat little book ("Not what I was planning: Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure") coming out which revolves around the concept of trying to encapsulate your life in 6...
Posted by David Ng at 10:38 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 14, 2008
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
yeah, so why are they?
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 13, 2008
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
...but it made me laugh (from The Filter)...
Posted by David Ng at 4:25 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Industrial Agriculture
So says Princess Lettuce, heading the Organic Rebellion with Cuke Skywalker...and May the Farm Be With You
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 4:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: About writing generally
A new book just (or just about to be) released called "Not what I was planning: Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure" has been on the media blitz lately. It stems from a great anecdote about Ernest Hemingway...
Posted by David Ng at 7:05 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 12, 2008
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
How do we add moral and qualitative dimensions to the prevailing quantitative mindset about environmentalism?
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 5:10 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 11, 2008
Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
Just noticed an article in our local newspaper today that highlighted the irony of sustainability researchers inadvertently having a larger than average eco-footprint. This makes logical sense though, since folks doing research tend to need to publish their findings and...
Posted by David Ng at 1:39 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
And so much more. A challenge to the uninspired, to the non-observant, to science, to the future
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 11:20 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 10, 2008
Category: Mountaintop Coal Removal
An update on environmentally and culturally senseless Mountaintop Coal Removal.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 1:20 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 8, 2008
Category: Links to Other Conversations and Articles
Headline of the year, and its only February.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:20 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 6, 2008
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
Just wanted to pass on two pieces, the SCQ has been lucky enough to present. They are: THE WIKI HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE IN 200 WORDS OR LESS and TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS EXPLAINED WITH SMURFS The history piece in...
Posted by David Ng at 11:47 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The STS Compages
"Invention stopping the fluctuations of nature": Part 7 in a series on truth, evidence, and everything there is.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 3:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 5, 2008
Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or die
Is Venter's newest pursuit the greatest gap b/t science's creative abilities and the public's understanding of it?
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 4:25 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
A quiz: Can you best it? Will you ace it? Is your scientific knowledge sound? What about of 18th c. knowledge?
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 10:00 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Nuclear Energy
Nuclear power is so safe, it's frightening. Just don't plan ahead (or look downriver, as it were).
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 4, 2008
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
A brief comment on the weather, and human inclinations, and eclipses.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 11:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
Editorial commentary, in cartoon form: Buy More Stuff?
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:58 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 1, 2008
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
... although not without reason. Time has been really tight this semester so far, and the last couple weeks have seen a myriad of different things going on. In no particular order, they are: 1. This new global issues course....
Posted by David Ng at 11:35 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
