Is science faith-based?
If you read any antiscience screeds, at some point or another most will claim that science is based on faith just as much as religion is. For example, the horrific Answers in Genesis website has this to say about science: ...
Science is NOT faith-based
If you read any antiscience screeds, at some point or another most will claim that science is based on faith just as much as religion is. This is completely wrong. It shows (unsurprisingly) an utter misunderstanding of how science works ...
America's 50 Greenest Cities: Popular Science Ranks 'Em
Photo credit: carie_camacho Throwing its hat into the ranking ring with Yahoo! and MSN's City Guides (to which TreeHugger was a contributor), Popular Science has crunched some numbers and ranked America's 50 Greenest Cities. ...
Tähtivaeltaja Award Nominees
The folks at the Helsinki Science Fiction Society have been busy again. Tero has the full list of nominees for the Tähtivaeltaja (their science fiction award). There are three translated works and two originally in Finnish. ...
The Meaning of Science
What does science mean about us? Which is to say: what is problematic about science? This question turns over everything which is unsettling, mysterious, and uncanny about the course of human development (and not only human); ...
Carl Zimmer's Science Tattoo Emporium
Carl Zimmer now has a huge 'emporium' of science tattoos. Well worth a look: http://carlzimmer.typepad.com/sciencetattoo Subscribe in a reader Add to Technorati Favorites.
Synthesizing Science and Politics
BOSTON, Ma - Climate change highlights the interesting relationship that the political world has with science. While almost all scientists say that climate change is occurring, the policies of the worlds biggest greenhouse gas emitters, ...
Out of Blog Experience
It's great that there was a forum on women-in-science blogs and other internet venues at the AAAS meeting, but after a brief description of this blog and Zuska's, the article quotes a journalist who describes blogs as “a way of getting ...
Eagle Nominations Open
Nominations for this year’s Eagle Awards are now open (thank you, Joe). The site appears to be in beta right now, so it might be wise to leave off participating until they’ve got the bugs ironed out. However, it appears that anyone can ...
Wired science features Chris Anderson's DIY UAVs
Wired Science has a cool segment about the unmanned aerial vehicles that Wired editor Chris Anderson and his friends build. Link.