The Cocktail Party Comes Home
After more than four years at Scientific American, Cocktail Party Physics is coming home — at least for now. That's because I'm now senior science …
Communicating science
Science Writer Throwdown: Fear and Loathing of Physics
Breaking news: Physics has a serious image problem. Okay, that's not really news to anyone engaged in the Sisyphean task of physics-related education and outreach …
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so you want to be a science consultant
We are reminded that we have been remiss of late in passing on nifty book recommendations. So let me heartily recommend the just-released Lab Coats …
gimme an “e” for education
"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten," Rudyard Kipling once observed. The same could be said for science. …
framing the questions
This semester, I'm teaching a class I haven't taught before: Writing Research Papers (I know: why didn't my students learn that in high school? That's …
veronica mars: science role model
So, what do you do when you're getting over the flu, and aren't completely incapacitated in a drugged-out stupor, but also not exactly 100% and …
two magesteria In the courtroom
Three years before he died, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, one of my favorite popularizers of science, published a book called Rocks of Ages: Science and …
science is not democratic
The ‘Golden Fleece’ awards made perfect sense in the abstract: identifying places the government was wasting taxpayer money, and even better if you can make it seem terribly frivolous. The execution of the idea, however, often failed due to an arrogance, if you will, in believing that anyone can look at the title or summary of a scientific grant or paper and decide whether it is ‘worthy’.
books, books, books galore!
A couple of weeks ago, an editor asked me to name my favorite science book from 2010 for a year-end round-up her magazine was putting …
batty for sam
Occasional co-blogger Allyson is being far too modest about some very big news: she's the proud author of a new, scienc-y children's book from Conservatory …