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Wired
August 24, 2009
Daniel Roth |
Making Geeks Cool Could Reform Education "Geeks get things done. They're possessed. They can't help themselves," says Larry Rosenstock, founding principal of eight charter schools in San Diego County collectively called High Tech High. He has come up with a curriculum that forces kids to embrace their inner geek by pushing them to create.   |
Chemistry World
August 19, 2009
Hepeng Jia |
China drug scheme funds out of reach Funding through China's multi-billion yuan key drug development scheme could become harder to come by over the next five-year term of the program, according to a senior representative. |
Scientific American
September 2009
Kate Wong |
Recommended: The Philosophical Baby Scientific American reviews Vesuvius and Naming Nature as well as other scientific books and exhibits. |
Scientific American
September 2009
Lawrence M. Krauss |
An Update on C. P. Snow's "Two Cultures" Earlier this summer marked the 50th anniversary of C. P. Snow's famous "Two Cultures" essay, in which he lamented the great cultural divide that separates two great areas of human intellectual activity, "science" and "the arts." |
Scientific American
September 2009 |
Fossils for All: Science Suffers by Hoarding Paleontologists are overly possessive of human fossils. Science -- and the public -- suffers as a result |
Chemistry World
August 7, 2009
Rebecca Trager |
Stimulus funds flow into US science, R&D Details are emerging about how the Obama administration is spending funds from the multi-billion dollar economic stimulus package enacted in February, with billions going into green vehicles and over $700 million ( 419 million) allocated to scientific research and infrastructure. |
Chemistry World
August 2009 |
Column: Undercover academic Is it necessary to collaborate with everyone and anyone? Or should researchers be selective? |
Chemistry World
August 2009 |
Building on a science base Evan Harris, Liberal Democrat science spokesman, underlines the importance of funding, careers, and evidence-based government policy for the future of UK science |
Chemistry World
July 28, 2009
Sarah Houlton |
ERC not up to scratch A review of the European Research Council, set up by the EU two years ago to promote high-risk, high-gain 'frontier' research, has concluded that although successful in attracting top-level scientists, the organization is riddled with fundamental operational problems |
Chemistry World
July 27, 2009
Simon Hadlington |
Peer review by live blogging Blogging can immediately bring together expert opinion on a given topic. Poorly reviewed papers claiming novelty can be expected to be rapidly dissected in the blogosphere, as some chemists have found out. |
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