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: ...
Knight Science Journalism Seminar: Golden age, layoffs, no ...
Thank you John Cox, ace backup tracker, for running the ship yesterday, while The Tracker attended a full day of the MIT Science Journalism Fellowships (descendant of the Vannevar Bush Program) 25th anniversary seminar on the future of ...
Gender Gap Science
Since the 1970s, feminism and equal-opportunity legislation have promoted the expectation that greater gender equality in America will result in women's choices looking more like men's. This both has and hasn't happened. ...
Small Victory for Science Education in Florida
Science education in Florida's public schools is a mess and the new standards offer the hope for general improvement. None of the science embodied in those standards includes any theism whatsoever, which is absolutely as it should be. ...
Science Fiction Overload
I’ve always loved science fiction but keeping up with the genre is a big damn job. I constantly worry I’m going to miss a breakthrough novel with the impact of Neuormancer or The Life of Pi or Replay just become I was wasn’t keeping up ...
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 ...
SCIENCE: "Poor Relations"
Mach's universe (and that of modern physical science) is one of interdependence, of what physicist Lee Smolin describes as "a network of evolving relationships" which obtain between matter fields, force fields, and (possibly) the "Higgs ...
Just the Stats: Science Foundation Program Producing Results
More than 200000 students from underrepresented populations have so far participated in a program started by the National Science Foundation to increase minority representation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) ...