If you're in the life sciences, you have like heard of The Scientist. After 25 years of making a go of it, they announced they are closing the doors.It's a tough market out there, as we can attest. If we had 2008 advertising rates and 2011 traffic, we would be making pretty darn good money. I have no idea how companies with expensive midtown Manhattan offices do it. Well,...
read moreIn academia, the many, many advancements of women are not enough and so they are increasingly forced to massage statistics to make it look like they are oppressed, underpaid, blocked out of the hard sciences, etc.In reality, women have it pretty good. Maybe even great. Men, as a special interest group, basically stink at being a special interest group because they were historically always the...
read moreA few weeks back I flew to Los Angeles to have some meetings about technology and media outside the Science 2.0 world - well, sort of. A surprising number of people outside science know of Science 2.0 and read the site and are fans. read...
read moreThis weekend is the first episode in a three-part "Brain Games" series on the National Geographic channel. Since National Geographic does not have a show on the 'science' of ghost hunting, and since statistics show 97% of Internet readers never finish an article, if you are not a regular Science 2.0 reader I am okay endorsing this and telling you in the first paragraph you will enjoy it, so...
read moreI'll lay out something a lot of people won't like to hear; science is about understanding the world according to natural laws and that means sometimes breaking the laws of nature. How far that goes is a policy matter and it's for civilian leadership to decide.Researchers won't like being compared to the military but it's a lot like that; there is a job to do, a mission to accomplish, and...
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