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#onsci: 15th December – Science and Religion
Kristin: In preparing last month’s topic on whether we care about science, I came across this reference to a book called “Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not“. The book descri… more →
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UC San Francisco Adopts Open Access Policy
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wrote 4 days ago: Yesterday UCSF announced it has adopted an open access policy by unanimous vote of the Academic Sena … more →
Scientific Freedom
wrote 4 months ago: Kathryn O’Hara, then president of the Canadian Science Writers’ Association, wrote to Prime Minister … more →
Can you help me get to ScienceOnline2012?
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wrote 5 months ago: ScienceOnline2012 is the sixth annual meeting on science and the web, taking place in Raleigh, NC fr … more →
Energy Poverty - An opportunity, surely?
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wrote 6 months ago: I’ve hesitated for some time to post this but a couple of comments on the site have prompted m … more →
Coming soon: the public sector science exodus
wrote 6 months ago: Forensics is not the only public science service that may see an exodus of experts. That’s according … more →
On Human Enhancement
wrote 7 months ago: Kristin: Disappointed that the Festival of Ideas has ended, and that the Festival of Unpopular Cultu … more →
Transforming Technologies
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wrote 7 months ago: Kristin: Today we’ll be discussing “Three Technologies that Will Transform the Way We Li … more →
"Five Iconic Science Images, And Why They're Wrong"
wrote 7 months ago: Here’s an interesting article from The Sciencepunk Blog, explaining why five scientific images … more →
Synthetic Meat
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wrote 7 months ago: Kristin: Would you eat synthetic meat? This is one of three animations James Hutson is preparing for … more →
Scientist Meets Publisher
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wrote 8 months ago: Here’s a funny animation that clearly explains the problems with for-profit academic publisher … more →
I'm a Scientist: The Film!
wrote 8 months ago: Kristin: What are scientists really like? This is a question we tackle during I’m a Scientist, … more →
Science and Twitter
wrote 9 months ago: Kristin: Discover more about science and Twitter! Earlier in the year, we started researching scienc … more →
Farewell to shadow projection?
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wrote 9 months ago: One of the many books I haven’t read to the end is Plato’s Republic. But I did get to th … more →
Spooklights - Things That Go Flash in the Dark
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wrote 11 months ago: I’ve been sorely reprimanded by Alom Shaha and Declan Fleming for not posting anything about t … more →
Mercury amalgams - behind the scenes for Elements
wrote 1 year ago: It was as a graduate student that I first dissolved things in mercury. We’d drop small chips o … more →
Iodine - a short introduction
wrote 1 year ago: For those of you coming to Elements on Friday 8 April, here’s a little taster of some of the w … more →
Everything and Nothing
wrote 1 year ago: This is a bit late ‘cos I had a series of screw-ups and various posts here either didn’t … more →
T (Tambiaiah) Sabaratnam: Fond farewell to a pathfinder science journalist
wrote 1 year ago: Tambiaiah SabaratnamI seem to be writing a few fond farewells to fellow travellers every year, becom … more →
A hideous reminder of our mortality.....
wrote 1 year ago: Demonstrations have been my thing for a long time. I’ve done scores of different ones – … more →
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