The law, as seen from the cheap seats… The Meming of Life » Science, interrupted Parenting Beyond Belief on secular parenting and other natural wonders. Connor (15) came home on the second day of school and collapsed on the sofa with a defeated look I’ve come to recognize. “Uh…good day?” “No.” He looked up at me. “Science.” He had enrolled for physical science and was looking forward to it, thinking it was physics. Turns out it’s actually basic mechanics and other concepts he’s already had. “He did this whole thing with overheads, and a bunch of it just didn’t make any sense,” he said. I’m not sure how much time passed as the wind-up monkey in my head banged his little cymbals.
“Then he goes off on this thing about ‘If no one was there to witness something, we can only guess about it. Hello. I began to consider my options, the first of which is always “Let it go.” I’m serious about not using my kids as pawns in my personal and professional quests. Then there’s the question of outcomes. Well that’s easy. Let’s call him Mr. Becca and I talked it over at dinner, and she was much more decisive. I knew she was right. Yes it is. (Continued.) Fighting back against neurosexism. (Image: Christopher Bissell) Liz Else, Associate editor Are differences between men and women hard-wired in the brain?
Two new books argue that there's no solid scientific evidence for this popular notion Few things are more likely to have us all frothing at the mouth than discussions about differences between the sexes - a close companion to race, IQ and climate change in the too-hot-to-talk-about stakes. Why? Surely in 2010 science should be able to take a lot of the heat out of such an emotive, highly politicised issue. Yet synthesising all this stuff into theories, testing and revising them, going back to the drawing board - it all takes, well, as long as it takes. While the science is bedevilled by such problems, should we be calling for a moratorium on popular books about differences between the sexes, as the psychologist Anne Campbell wondered in these pages two years ago? Fine and Jordan-Young have very different ways of setting about out their demolition jobs.
In which the blind see - Mind the Gap Blog | Nature Publishing Group. Less than two weeks remain until my big fellowship application is due – the one I’m banking on to rescue me from the dwindling life of my latest short-term contract. If I get the fellowship, my position should finally be secure. If not, I’ll need to scrabble together another fellowship or short-term contract, or try to find a different position altogether. All of this is happening in the context of the mind-blowingly large number of pounds I have just set up as a monthly standing order to Joshua’s new nursery starting in February, and the stark fact that after childcare fees, the mortgage and the other household bills, there are only a few pence left to rub together for anything else.
An interruption in salary, no matter how short, is simply not an option. No pressure, then. I’ve been thinking a lot, first, about how much work I’ve been able to get done on maternity leave and second, whether in fact that’s actually been a good thing. Grant vs grant Does this make me a bad mother? Science on Wheels: Delivering Hands-on Experiments to Schools across the Country. In 2007, Ben Dubin-Thaler purchased a 1974 San Francisco transit bus from Craigslist and transformed the inside of the bus into a mobile laboratory classroom, complete with state-of-the-art microscopes, computers and three rows of blue vinyl-covered, cushioned benches.
Today, the BioBus travels around the country, bringing an interactive science education to more than 10,000 students each year. On a monitor attached to a microscope, a blue-green amoeba slowly crawls across the screen with a wave-like motion. The eyes of the students huddled in front of the screen widen, as this is the first time many of them have seen live cells and small organisms. The microscope is housed in a hands-on science laboratory located in a high-tech, brightly painted bus called the “BioBus.” The Bus In August 2007, Ben Dubin-Thaler, or “Dr. What also is amazing about the BioBus is that it’s carbon-neutral. Carmen Gets Around (II) Rajendra Pachauri innocent of financial misdealings but smears will continue | George Monbiot | Environment. Has anyone been as badly maligned as Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)? In December, the Sunday Telegraph carried a long and prominent feature written by Christopher Booker and Richard North, titled: Questions over business deals of UN climate change guru Dr Rajendra Pachauri.
The subtitle alleged that Pachauri has been "making a fortune from his links with 'carbon trading' companies". The article maintained that the money made by Pachauri while working for other organisations "must run into millions of dollars". It described his outside interests as "highly lucrative commercial jobs". It proposed that these payments caused a "conflict of interest" with his IPCC role. The story (which has subsequently been removed from the Sunday Telegraph's website) immediately travelled around the world. There was just one problem: the story was untrue. His total additional income over the 20 months reviewed by KPMG amounted to the following: monbiot.com. Kinds of free will. Jonah Lehrer points to a post by philosopher Galen Strawson at the NYT blog on the nonexistence of free will. Strawson’s argument is basically that actions are performed for (causal) reasons that are outside our control, and so we have no free will.
I agree that our actions are performed for reasons, and that they are (very nearly always) outside our control if by that one means that they are reasons we did not choose. I am what I am physically, and this is largely the outcome of prior dispositions from my biological and cultural heredity. I did not choose to be an Australian white male human mammal etc.
So it’s a knockdown argument: I had no choice in these preferences, so I am not responsible for my actions based upon them. Now, I certainly choose my actions based upon my preferences. But it does not follow that because we are causally determined we must be considered morally determined. But in other causally determined cases, we are not morally coerced. Like this: Like Loading... Dumping on technicians... How to make a difference – Responsible vaccine advocacy. I lost a patient this season, an infant, to pertussis. After falling ill he lived for nearly a month in the intensive care unit on a ventilator, three weeks of which was spent on a heart/lung bypass machine (ECMO) due to the extent of the damage to his lungs, but all our efforts were in vain. The most aggressive and advanced care medicine has to offer couldn’t save his life; the only thing that could have saved him would have been to prevent him from contracting pertussis in the first place.
He was unvaccinated, but that was because of his age. He was part of the population that is fully dependent on herd immunity for protection, and that is exquisitely prone to a life-threatening course once infected. This is a topic we’ve covered ad nauseum, and I’m not inclined to go into greater depth in this post. Different approaches are required if we hope to improve our rates of vaccination. I’m not saying the work done by the medical community has been a wasted effort, far from it. Creating cultural change. Ruminations on science, data and computing by Deepak Singh This is a funny and poignant presentation about creating cultural change, especially for us technology types Note : I don’t know John, but I think I’d like to if this talk is anything to go by This entry was posted in Off Topic .
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