So Richard [Dawkins] and PZ [Myers], it’s time to let other people be the messengers for science. This is not about censoring your ideas and positions, but rather being smart, strategic, tactical, and ultimately effective in promoting science rather than your own personal ideology, books, or blog.
Framing Science on Evolution Representatives
26 March 2008
6 March 2008
Growing up as a young proto-scientist, I was always strongly anti-establishmentarian, looking forward to overthrowing the System as our generation’s new Galileo. Now I spend a substantial fraction of my time explaining and defending the status quo to outsiders. It’s very depressing.
Cosmic Variance on Science
7 February 2008
Even in an election year, physics marches on. Physics is forever.
Cosmic Variance on Physics
30 January 2008
A fourth-grader reads an article in the Science Times, and is so moved by outrage that he pens a stern missive to the scientists quoted? It’s not very often that you have a chance to inspire a young mind like that, even if you do inspire him to berate you.
Cosmic Variance on Scientific Child
25 January 2008
Researchers from Duke University think it may be possible to develop a composite material that would make objects acoustically “invisible.”
Boing Boing on Sound Invisibility