Our Blogger Panel At Duke
Category: Culture
As promised, a photo* from last Friday with 'the Bloggerati'.
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 8:25 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Chris Mooney is a visiting associate in the Center for Collaborative History at Princeton University and the author of three books, The Republican War on Science, Storm World, and Unscientific America.
Sheril Kirshenbaum is a marine biologist and author at Duke University. Sometimes she's a classicist, radio jock, or congressional staffer. Never sure what's next, she continues to enjoy the journey. For more information, visit her website.
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Morning With 'The Bloggerati'
Category: Culture
Today Bora, Abel, and I visited Duke's Sanford Institute on Public Policy for the second year in a row to discuss the coverage of science, health, and policy.
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 2:10 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Don't Bash "Bad Science Reporting" While Ignoring the Broader Economic Context!
Category: Culture
Ed Brayton, who I admire greatly, has a post that runs afoul of my "death of science journalism" sensitivity meter. You see, Ed came across a National Geographic story that says something dumb about "carbon dating." Ed is surely right...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 9:09 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dora Revealed
Category: Culture
You've read about the controversy and now it's time to weigh in.
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 11:27 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What Is Scientific Literacy?
Category: Culture
If we assume yesterday's comment thread is representative of Intersection readership at large, most folks agree that quizzing the general populace on a series of facts doesn't necessarily provide much information.
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 9:02 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
'Flunking Basic Science?'
Category: Culture
Before rushing to attack the American education system, first consider: What do such quizzes actually reveal?
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 9:26 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
C.P. Snow: Still Relevant; "Two Cultures": Still Divided
Category: Culture
There were some great comments on our last post announcing the "Two Cultures" 50 year anniversary conference at the New York Academy of Sciences. I wanted to build on that discussion, but haven't gotten around to it until now. So...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 11:03 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Kolbert on Global Warming, Scientists, and the Media: "Total System Failure"
Category: Education
Yale Environment 360 interviews the renowned New Yorker journalist, who blames the media and scientists alike for our staggering failure to deal with this issue. Here's a long quotation: e360: We've talked about journalists and generally the challenges in conveying...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 12:15 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The "Two Cultures" 50 Year Anniversary Conference
Category: Culture
Over a year ago, we had an idea: We were doing a book that discusses the work of the British physicist-novelist C.P. Snow, and the 50 year anniversary of his world famous "two cultures" argument was coming up--May 7, 2009....
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 11:12 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
While Exploring The Cosmos, A Look Back At Earth
Category: Culture
No doubt the mission of Kepler is really cool, but why rush to search for planets like ours when it behooves us to focus efforts on preserving life as we know it here.
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 12:40 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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