Vermont is still milking the slavery thing.Yes, yes, you were first to ban it. It's easy to ban something you never had in the first place. That does not mean you are right in everything you ban and, let's face it, comparing GMOs to slavery is a little weird, even for Vermont.Nonetheless, “We’re first again,” gushes organic farmer Will Allen in The Economist, which makes the rest of the...
read moreTeaching is somewhat of a thankless job. One group tells you not to 'teach to the test' while another blames you when international test scores show American kids are in the middle of the pack.Well, American kids have always been at the middle of the pack, for as long as there have been international tests. And yet those apparently dumb kids from the first test in the early 1960s, who were almost...
read moreAmerican Council on Science and Health is an advocacy group consisting of hundreds of scientists, doctors and policy experts devoted to science outreach. They've been around since the 1970s, when the core of their original group, including Nobel Laureate Norman Borlaug, the "father of the Green Revolution", wondered why there were no science groups that offset the wonks promoting fear and doubt...
read moreAcademics share one thing with the corporate world - most people want to climb the socio-economic ladder.A post at an elite university like Oxford or Caltech is the crowning achievement of a career — but some believe it will also improve the quality of their work, by bringing them together with other top-flight researchers. Plausible, but Albert-Laszlo Barabasi shows in a study published in...
read moreRichard Somerville and Susan Hassol have some recommendations for how to improve science communication. read...
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