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Politics, Communication and Unscientific America
As I’ve been preparing my formal review of Unscientific America I’ve been struck by the question: who was this book intended for? Clearly it was a critique of science communicators to be sure (more on...
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Rebranding Science: Unscientific America Values Style Over Substance
“They say rather than cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. They don’t mention anything about cursing a lack of candles.” - George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Porkchops? In...
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University of Illinois Graduate Students Vote to Strike
In an overwhelming majority members of the Graduate Employee’s Organization (GEO) at the University of Illinois at at Urbana-Champaign authorized their union to to go on strike if the university...
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Graduate Student Strike Results in “Major Victory”
As I posted earlier, graduate teaching assistants at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had voted to authorize a strike unless the university negotiated with them in good faith. It appears...
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Big News for Vancouverites Today!
Carl Zimmer, science writer extraordinaire and blogger at The Loom will be speaking tonight at the University of British Columbia. It’s at 7pm in Room 2 of the Woodward Instructional Resources Centre...
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Remembering Historian Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
As reported this evening in the Boston Globe, the internationally renowned historian and bestselling author of A People’s History of the United States died today while traveling in California. For Dr....
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Teaching Evolutionary History
As people who have been following the issue are well aware, there is a crisis of scientific literacy in the United States. Unscientific America may have had a poor explanation for why the problem...
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An Academic Love Story
Four years ago today a young researcher at the beginning of his graduate program in primatology sat down with the most intelligent, engaging, and downright beautiful fellow primate he’d ever had the...
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Women Make Strides in Science, Barriers Still To Overcome
Five years ago Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, made headlines when he suggested that women are not as well represented in science because of “issues of intrinsic aptitude.” By proposing...
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Ann Coulter, Hate Speech, and Free Societies
Ann Coulter is a vicious and mean-spirited demagogue and I’m ashamed that I share more DNA with her than chimpanzees or bonobos. She represents the worst kind of reactionary partisanship and should be...
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