Science Communication at a Tipping Point : Soapbox Science
Soapbox Science Science Communication at a Tipping Point15 May 2013 | 14:00 BST | Posted by Soapbox Science Editor | Category: Featured Liz Neeley is the Assistant Director of Science Outreach for COMPASS. She helps develop and lead communication trainings for scientists across the country, and specializes in traditional and social media. She is the founder of ScienceOnlineSeattle and affiliate st
Stephen Jay Gould accused of fudging numbers : News blog
In a moderate tone that belies the seriousness of their allegations, a group of anthropologists last week made the case that the giant of evolutionary biology, historian of science, much-loved author and Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould, had falsified criticisms of skull measurements originally reported by 19th century American physician Samuel Morton. Like many 19th century intellectuals, Mort
The Great Beyond: How Fukushima is and isn't like Chernobyl
Bookmark in Connotea How Fukushima is and isn't like Chernobyl - April 12, 2011 This morning, the Japanese government officially upgraded Fukushima on the International Nuclear Events Scale to a 7, or "Major accident". The new rating is the highest on the scale, and puts Fukushima on a par with the worst nuclear accident in history—Chernobyl. Understandably, the press has made quite a big deal out
Fukushima Crisis: Latest maps of spread of radiation plumes in Asia-Pacific : News blog
Wind directions in Japan are currently blowing radiation from the troubled Fukushima nuclear power plant eastwards out to the Pacific Ocean (see Figure 1), but a shift in directions Sunday risks sending the radiation plume towards Tokyo (see Figure 2). These models have just been published in a bulletin by Austria’s weather service, the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics in Vienna.
The Great Beyond: INTERVIEW: author of spoof paper speaks (2007/11/09)
It’s the interview they all wanted. Earlier this week climate change sceptics were receiving an email from one Dr Mark Cox. In this email Dr Cox implored them to write about a tale of “treatment of some academic colleagues by what seems like a kind of ‘climate change mafia’”. Cox’s colleagues had discovered evidence that overthrew the idea of man-made global warming, the email said. Those who took
The Great Beyond: Fake climate change paper
Arguments over global warming have taken a strange turn. There’s a big hubbub in the blogosphere over a fake paper purporting to refute “manmade global warming theory”. The paper itself appears to have been removed from the web, but google’s cache of it is still there. There’s a cache of the “editorial” that goes with it as well. The paper concluded “We have no choice but to conclude that the rece
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