Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

mBio: Gender Analysis Of Scientific Misconduct

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  UPDATE:   The link to this study on mBio is now live: Males Are Overrepresented among Life Science Researchers Committing Scienti...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

HHMI’s Holiday Lecture Series: 2012

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Credit HHMI # 6810   A couple of years ago I highlighted an online ( and free )  holiday lecture series   offered by HHMI ( H...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Dysfunctional Science

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    # 6246     Six weeks ago in Science at the Crossroads , I wrote about the decline the public’s trust in science.   Whil...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

AAAS Webinar: Science Is Not Enough

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    # 6155   Yesterday, in Science at the Crossroads , I wrote about the public’s growing mistrust in science and in the scientific ...
Friday, February 17, 2012

Science At The Crossroads

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    # 6151     Being born of the space age, and having cut my teeth on the science writings of Willy Ley and Isaac Asimov, I am ab...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Webcast: Demystifying The Higgs Results

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  Inside the LHC – Photo Credit CERN   # 6005     Like millions of others this morning, I’ve been following the announcements...
Friday, July 15, 2011

Breathless Headlines

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      # 5695     Based on the number of news stories published overnight – and their `forward looking’ headlines - you’d think ...
Thursday, July 08, 2010

Solidarity For Science Bloggers

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    # 4708   UPDATED:    According to PZ Myers on his Pharyngula blog the powers-that-be at Scienceblogs have reversed course ...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Tip-Toeing Through The Minefield

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    # 4398     There was a sardonic one-liner back in the 1970s, after a decade of media ` scare stories’ about the dangers of ev...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Branswell: Flu Dogma Being Rewritten

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    # 3955   Today’s `must read’ comes from Helen Branswell of The Canadian Press, who takes us on a tour of the things we mist...