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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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Women Aren't Interested in Engineering, They Just Aren't

"In the long run men hit only what they aim at." H.D. Thoreau, Walden This post's title is the poorly reasoned conclusion to a poorly reported and poorly conducted study. I couldn't tell if it was simply bad reporting at...

Posted on May 20, 2008 1:25 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

The Future of Objectivity

A conference in Toronto explores the prospects of forging a new and tenable epistemology.

Posted on May 15, 2008 9:50 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Gravity trumps sunlight!!

"What seems a detour has a way of becoming, in time, a direct route." And so a long series comes to an end.

Posted on May 1, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Don't you just hate the difference between seeing things 'as they are' and 'as they ought to be'?

Where viewer and viewed are fused into an indivisible whole. More on Errol Morris, with Richard Powers back to help again.

Posted on April 29, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

The US: #2 in MRIs, #15 in Health Ranking

Part 4 on the cultural context of medical technology, healthcare, and ways of knowing the body

Posted on April 4, 2008 9:00 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Who's Out to Get Them?: Localism and the Politics of Food

As much energy to run the farmer's market for a day as running a household for a year...but so?

Posted on March 24, 2008 9:30 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Epistemic Shadows: Can sunlight explain a photographic mystery?

Maybe for Morris, it's not the perfection of technique but the selective obscuring of it that matters.

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

Perfection, Symmetry, and Chaos in Science and History

Solzhenitsyn and Borges as bookends; in between, order and randomness

Posted on February 26, 2008 8:15 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

The Search for Symmetry and Objectivity goes through Alamogordo and the Crimea

A comment about bombs and mercury and Communists and theater and world history

Posted on February 25, 2008 8:30 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, Or, From Crimea to Prussia to Scienceblogs

"Invention stopping the fluctuations of nature": Part 7 in a series on truth, evidence, and everything there is.

Posted on February 6, 2008 3:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Certainty and the Obvious: What It Takes to Bring in the Fabled "Context"

Saying something's "obvious" indicates the absence of a logical argument, asserting truth by speaking loudly.

Posted on January 22, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

The Pathetic Fallacy

Continuing to ponder knowledge, evidence, Errol Morris, and The Crimea's Sebastopol of 1855

Posted on January 21, 2008 9:00 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Trained Judgment and the Scientific Audience

Consumers and producers of scientific knowledge unite! Maybe? A little? Could we?

Posted on January 14, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

But Which Thousand Words is the Picture Worth?

There are two words that you can never apply to them: 'true' and 'false'.

Posted on January 8, 2008 8:30 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

"All epistemology begins in fear..."

It is a misconception...that historicism and relativism stride hand in hand, that to reveal that an idea or value has a history is...to debunk it.

Posted on January 4, 2008 9:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Objectivity: True-to-Nature, Mechanical, and through Trained Judgment

a story of lofty epistemic ideals fused with workaday practices in the making of scientific images...

Posted on January 3, 2008 1:00 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Scientific Objectivity has a History.

Here's a post about it. A post mentioning morality. And referring to historical contingency. Come on in.

Posted on January 3, 2008 8:20 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Engineers as Authors: Technology, Nature, and Sustainable Communities

You take technology and nature, avoid assuming they're opposed, and get a bunch of engineering undergrads to write a book about it.

Posted on December 19, 2007 9:20 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Setting Research Agendas and The 'Ounce Prevention/Pound Cure' Aphorism

On matters of research agenda-setting, policy making, and government in scientific medical research, circa 1977

Posted on November 30, 2007 3:15 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

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