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 ...
State Science and Technology Policy Advice: Issues, Opportunities ...
The federal government plays the predominant role in supporting research and development (R&D) and in establishing public policies that affect science and technology (S&T) in the United States. However, the federal government is no ...
The past and future of science journalism
Boyce recalled that the National Association of Science Writers, set up in the 1930s in the US, operated somewhat like a cult. For example, one proposal floated at the time was that only NASW members should be able to write about ...
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. ...
Highlights from the Floor of the AAAS Annual Meeting
They have built a variety of so-called pathways for researchers and students in a variety of fields, like materials science. For a generalist though, the most interesting resources might be the strange ones like eskeletons.org, ...
IUPUI and Public Library of Science
The Public Library of Science publishes high-quality, high-profile, peer-reviewed research in all areas of science and medicine. Under the open access model, Public Library of Science journals are immediately available online, ...
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.
Florida State Board of Education Votes to Convert Evolution from a ...
Today, the Florida State Board of Education voted 4-3 to adopt science standards that call evolution “the fundamental concept underlying all of biology.” While it is good that students will learn about evolution, these standards will ...