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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.
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Author Meets Bloggers:
Agroecology in Action: A Scientific Response to Agro-environmental Crises, with author Keith Warner
Science, agriculture, politics, and power in California.Posted on November 11, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
The Author-Meets-Blogger Homepage
Click on the book cover to go to Part I of the respective discussion. Or, see here for a complete list of entries. I: M. Egan on Barry Commoner ...Posted on November 10, 2008 12:00 PM • 0 Comments •
Science, Sneezing, and Environmental Justice: Part 3 with Author Gregg Mitman
How can science serve the interests of environmental & social justice, rather than continuing to fuel war and environmental and social inequality?Posted on October 3, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Allergies, Environmental Justice, Theory, and Audience: Part II with Author Gregg Mitman
We are living in a country with huge environmental and social inequalities--the stakes are too high to simply write for each other in a small, hyper-professionalized field.Posted on October 2, 2008 9:00 AM • 1 Comments •
Breathing Space: On the Historical Connections of Allergies and Landscapes, with Author Gregg Mitman
How disease has been an important force in the history of environmental change and in changing perceptions of the environmentPosted on October 1, 2008 9:00 AM • 2 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 studiesPosted 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 •
Sick Building Syndrome as a Problem of Design and Expertise: Part II with author Michelle Murphy
What "experts" did in the politics of low-level chemical exposures was also crafted out of gendered and raced circumstances...Posted on September 9, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Author Michelle Murphy Discusses
With an eye to the 1980s rise of new chemical exposure scenarios, here's a whole different view of office space.Posted on September 8, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Not so much "Are Whales Fish?" as much as "Who Says So?"
Part 2 on Challenging the Order of Nature and Putting Biology on Trial, with Graham BurnettPosted on June 19, 2008 9:00 AM • 1 Comments •
Are Whales Fish? Author D. Graham Burnett Discusses
Trying Leviathan tackles the legal battle over the taxonomic status of whales, circa 1818. Find out how, here.Posted on June 18, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
The US: #2 in MRIs, #15 in Health Ranking
Part 4 on the cultural context of medical technology, healthcare, and ways of knowing the bodyPosted on April 4, 2008 9:00 AM • 8 Comments •
What does a Sociologist of Science do? Let alone one of medicine...
These might help answer that. Part 3 on a new study of MRI in contemporary medical practice.Posted on April 3, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
The Turn to the Visual in Medical Practice: Part 2 on Magnetic Appeal
Foucault at scienceblogs, if we're talking about the clinical gaze; that and the role of users in technological development.Posted on April 2, 2008 9:00 AM • 5 Comments •
Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency: medical knowledge, healthcare policy, and those huge loud machines, with author Kelly Joyce
Is MRI "the right tool for the job"? Anatomical images as visual testimony + an empirical inquiry into the Seed tagline about science and culturePosted on April 1, 2008 9:00 AM • 1 Comments •
Storm Worlds of the Enlightenment: Part 2 with historian Jan Golinski
Wrath of God? Payback for human interference with the natural order? More science and weather within.Posted on March 12, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment: Between the Scientific and Traditional with Historian Jan Golinski
Talking weather and placing scientific practices (record-keeping, instruments use) in their cultural contextPosted on March 11, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
At this lab, everyone is required to maintain a science blog.
Last week (or thereabouts), I had a chat with Rosie Redfield, an evolutionary biologist at the University of British Columbia. She had come over to visit because I noticed that every member of her lab (predominantly postdocs) had their own...Posted on December 4, 2007 1:44 PM • 12 Comments •
Environmentalism, Science, and Audience: Part III on The Humboldt Current
What we need: "generosity of spirit, cosmopolitan openness to other perspectives, awareness of how every place matters as much as every other place."Posted on November 7, 2007 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Who Cares about A. Humboldt's 19th-century Exploits?
Maybe you. Part II of our discussion with author Aaron Sachs about the Roots of American Environmentalism.Posted on November 6, 2007 8:00 AM • 0 Comments •
The Humboldt Current: Science, Adventure, and Environmentalism with author Aaron Sachs
A discussion about science and environmental history with historian Aaron Sachs, the next in our author-meets-blogger series.Posted on November 5, 2007 8:00 AM • 2 Comments •
How Do You Study Science Policy Academically? (Part III)
Final part with Prof. Parthasarathy, on breast cancer research, social movements, and the academics of science policyPosted on September 12, 2007 8:32 AM • 2 Comments •
Why National and Cultural Context Matters for Science, and for Science Policy: Part II
Technical systems are inextricably linked to--not distinct from--specific political, social, legal, ethical, and economic understandings...Posted on September 11, 2007 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Building Genetic Medicine: A Discussion with STS and Public Policy Scholar Shobita Parthasarathy
Studying genetic testing for breast & ovarian cancer, and understanding public policy about itPosted on September 10, 2007 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Recycling Toxic Materials and E-Waste Policy: Part III
Flame retardants, plasticizers, heavy metals, and carbon black...truly globalized toxicsPosted on August 29, 2007 8:30 AM • 0 Comments •
Global E-Scraps and International Politics: Part II
Thomas Friedman is wrong, though the electronics industry is global in every possible respect.Posted on August 28, 2007 9:00 AM • 0 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 •
Do Social Movements Affect History? Alternative Pathways Part III
And what will all these farmer's markets get us?Posted on August 15, 2007 9:00 AM • 2 Comments •
What is "undone" science?: Alternative Pathways Part II
Sustainable possibilities in agriculture, energy, waste and manufacturing, infrastructure, and finance...Posted on August 14, 2007 9:00 AM • 4 Comments •
Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry: A Discussion with Author David Hess
Activism, credibility, and disagreements over methods, conceptual frameworks, and/or problem areas to be investigated...Posted on August 13, 2007 9:00 AM • 7 Comments •
Politics of Wilderness, Policies of Collaboration: Part III
Roadless rules, glacier lilies, baseball, and someone named Ruth Onthank.Posted on July 25, 2007 8:00 AM • 0 Comments •
More Wild Things: Part II of Interview with Wilderness author Kevin Marsh
The Forest Service, Dept. of Ag., and other scientists in the making of American WildernessPosted on July 24, 2007 9:00 AM • 0 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 •
The Pill, feminist theory, and the scientization of population policy: Part II
Contraceptives, demographic surveys, and other techno-scientific policies on population issues.Posted on July 10, 2007 8:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Population Policy, Science, and Technology; A Conversation with the Guy Who Wrote the Book On It
On Science and Policy: from "population control" to "women's empowerment and reproductive health" in the 20th centuryPosted on July 9, 2007 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Is Biotech Like Nanotech? Is Kansas Flat? And Other Queries (Part III)
Analogies are a lot of work and landscape is not just a metaphor. Our final installment of C.M.M. Mody and Nanotechnology.Posted on June 27, 2007 8:00 AM • 1 Comments •
Beyond Toxicology: Nanotechnology, Ethics, and Known Unknowns (Part II)
Part II of our conversation with Cyrus Mody, Ph.D., about nanotechnology and society. Part I is here. Part III is here. For all installments of this Authors-meet-Bloggers series, see our archive....Posted on June 26, 2007 8:15 AM • 0 Comments •
Nanotechnology: Where Did It Come From? What Is It For?
Prof. Cyrus Mody discusses nanotech origins, futures, and sidelines. Oh, and Lost.Posted on June 25, 2007 1:32 PM • 3 Comments •
"At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope": Commoner in Today's Times
A timely add-on to our recent Science and Society discussion with historian Michael Egan about his book on Barry Commoner, Science, and Environmentalism (Part I, Part II) is an article in today's New York Times about and with Commoner. And...Posted on June 19, 2007 1:44 PM • 6 Comments •
Barry Commoner, Science, and Action: Part II
"science is alive and well, but scientists are under siege" -- even with better knowledge of env. crisesPosted on June 19, 2007 8:00 AM • 0 Comments •
The Role of Science in American Environmentalism
New book about Barry Commoner discusses science, policy, and the road between.Posted on June 18, 2007 10:11 AM • 5 Comments •
