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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.

Trying to find your way around this place? Like most expositions, we offer a map: Map of The World's Fair

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"The world is full of light and life, and the true crime is not to be interested in it." A.S. Byatt

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Guests at the Fair:

Science and Politics, Science in Politics, and Politics in Science: A Note, that is, on Endocrine Disruption

We need the moral (not just political) will to act when the evidence suggests things aren't looking good.

Posted on September 29, 2008 8:15 AM • 0 Comments •

Drinks! Vancouver! ScienceBlogs!

Just a reminder that Jennifer and I will be hosting drinks at Koerner's pub this evening. We'll be there from about 6pm on. Come on out on Seed's dime - should be fun. And just in case, you don't know...

Posted on September 18, 2008 9:22 AM • 3 Comments •

Sick Building Syndrome and Uncertain Science: Part IV with author Michelle Murphy

How tobacco, pesticide, and chemical industries fostered the uncertain structure of SBS studies

Posted on September 11, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •

Sick Building Syndrome as a Problem of Race: Part III with author Michelle Murphy

Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 - - - Part 3 with Jody Roberts and Michelle Murphy--discussing her book Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty--follows below. All entries in the author-meets-blogger series can be found here....

Posted on September 10, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •

Science. History. Ears. Happy Together.

When I was young, back in 2004, we got our history from books and we liked it that way. Then along came podcasts....

Posted on August 18, 2008 9:00 AM • 2 Comments •

Ignorance is This, or: A Science Writer's Apology

In this lab of accelerator physicists, I am the village idiot. I'm not from here. Maybe that's good.

Posted on July 21, 2008 9:00 AM • 5 Comments •

One More Thing You Shouldn't Inhale: The Past and Future (But No Present) of Carbon Nanotubes and Asbestos

Blah NANO blah blah blah ASBESTOS blah PATHOGEN blah blah

Posted on June 3, 2008 8:00 AM • 4 Comments •

Hydrocolloids and Rabbit Mousse: An Experiment in Artscience

Take Jonah Lehrer, add Alton Brown, Le Laboratoire, and some molecular gastronomy, and here's what you get.

Posted on April 7, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •

Scientific Audiences: Performing Science and Constructing Publics

Scientific controversy isn't just about what is true, but who determines what is true

Posted on January 10, 2008 9:30 AM • 4 Comments •

My John or Paul Project

Technology--writing, or other graphic representation--helps us see what we think we know

Posted on January 8, 2008 12:30 PM • 2 Comments •

Ghosts in (and out of) the Machines

Why does it matter if human knowledge of the world is incomplete? Final thoughts on Adorno's remainder.

Posted on August 29, 2007 1:40 PM • 3 Comments •

High Tech Trash: A Discussion with Author Lizzie Grossman

Environmental and health impacts of the entire life cycle of high tech electronics...because how many gadgets and how many new gadgets do we really need?

Posted on August 27, 2007 9:45 AM • 2 Comments •

Hot Funky Love

Reasons to have sex, reasons not to...a most thorough taxonomy of sexual motivation.

Posted on August 2, 2007 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •

Michigan v. Michigan State: An Early Season Match-Up

Just how competitive is organic farming compared to petroleum-based farming?

Posted on July 24, 2007 12:00 PM • 4 Comments •

Scientific Knowledge vs. Mystery

Because twice-two-makes-five is sometimes a most charming little thing.

Posted on July 23, 2007 12:00 PM • 9 Comments •

Where the Wild Things Are (with apologies to Sendak)

A conversation about wilderness with the author of a new book on just that subject.

Posted on July 23, 2007 8:00 AM • 2 Comments •

EPA Releases Endocrine Disrupter Screening List: But Where's Bisphenol-A?

Data on human body burden of chemicals -- too many to test & an EPA too slow to try.

Posted on July 9, 2007 10:30 AM • 0 Comments •

The Sam's Club Model of Environmentalism (Buy More!)

On the the burgeoning commoditization of the environmental movement.

Posted on July 3, 2007 11:00 AM • 2 Comments •

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