I’m back in DC after a week long tour of southern California. On Monday night, an audience of close to 100 scientists, students, and staff turned out at Cal Tech […]
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As funding and budgets flat line at the National Institutes of Health, science organizations are hoping to make NIH funding part of the election discussion. In a smart way, they […]
“Do we inflate the menace of Islamic Jihad in order to justify the war in Afghanistan?” Robert Wright wonders if our simplification of Muslim motives squeezes relevant facts out of picture.
USC’s vice provost of innovation, Krisztina “Z” Holly, thinks PhD programs need to change. If you think about it, it takes even the most amazing PhD candidates around the world […]
Dr. Norman Frost of the University of Wisconsin at Madison tells Big Think “drug-testing policies in professional sports are completely illogical.”
In an eruption without a single fatality and some of the best response by officials to the eruption, some people are calling for “blame” to be doled out.
Piles and piles of volcano news from the past week, including extinctions! cards! holiday snaps! and rumbling volcanoes!
Learn a little bit more about the Volcano Hazards Program and where it is headed (we can thank Bobby Jindal for a lot of it).
While I was out of town last week I got a lot of reading done. One of the books I picked up was the paperback version of Palace Council by […]
Libyan strongman Muammar Gadaffi has it in for peace-loving Switzerland. He says he’d destroy the country if he had atomic weapons. But since he doesn’t have them, he advocates wiping […]
There´s a certain type of children´s literature that just positively requires a map at the end paper of the book. The map is there either to show an itinerary that […]
Next week there will be big news on the science communication front. In anticipation, I was just going back over some things that I have written on the topic over […]
America and Greece have lately been running large budget deficits, roughly comparable as a percentage of G.D.P., notes Paul Krugman. Yet markets treat the countries very differently.
Now that the dust has settled after the immediate reaction to WikiLeak’s release of secret Afghan war logs, clearer lines can be drawn concerning the event’s significance. The most fundamental […]
Tuesday marks the 30th anniversary of the historic eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington – and Eruptions readers share their memories on the blast that captivated the world.
Summer is over. Now fall begins. When we think back on this season in this year will we remember the books, the songs, the finals of the U.S. Open (or […]
Despite centuries of Anglo-French tension, Stratford’s favourite son is as popular in Paris as he is in London
The Jews have another Israel. It’s in Siberia – and it was their first official home.
The motto of the United States is E Pluribus Unum, Latin for ‘Out of Many, One’. Matt Kirkland, who provided me this map, thinks the US has become too unwieldy, […]
If your company were taking steps to reduce its carbon footprint and promote sustainable practices, you’d probably be shouting it from the rooftops, right? Actually, says Greenbiz.com editor Joel Makower, […]
Part 2 of the Q&A with Dr. Boris Behncke of Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Catania.
Are some of our elegant symbols of modernity — smartphones and so on — fueling slaughter and rape in Congo? The New York Times on the campaign for “clean” minerals.
Sady Doyle has a piece in the Atlantic about how the latest case of HIV in the porn industry has revived public concern about the lack of condoms in straight […]
The vuvuzela is not a popular instrument outside of South Africa. World Cup players from other nations complain that it breaks their concentration, broadcasters have trouble making their commentaries heard […]
As neuroimaging labs use scanners to reveal more and more details about how the brain works, their findings are increasingly affecting the legal system.
How much impact has Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth had on the global warming debate? More generally, how can we understand the range of influences that a documentary film might have […]
I went to a wake earlier this week for the grandmother of a very close friend of mine. I had only seen his grandmother a few times in all the […]
“On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make […]
It’s a good year to die. Right now—for the first time in 94 years—there’s no estate tax. So if something should happen to you, your beneficiaries won’t have to pay […]