Religion versus Science

April 16, 2009

I am aware that far more noteworthy people than I have being taking part in the science versus religion debate for a long time now, but following on from something I saw on Twitter today (you’ll find me on twitter.com/arthurpdent42) I just felt I had to stick my oar in.The resurrection of Jesus is a […]

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Hope springs eternal

April 16, 2009

Possibly one of the most interesting diseases that we still cannot find a cure for is Alzheimer’s, and yet again a new hope has sprung up. In next month’s edition of the Journal of Neurotoxicity Research, an article about the potential cause of the disease Amyloid-beta-induced ion flux in artificial lipid bilayers and neuronal cells […]

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Nature vs nurture and cats

April 10, 2009

First, I must apologise for the poor grammar on previous posts, and thank you to the kind person who has been pointing this out to me. I have paid particular attention to today’s post, so hopefully it passes the test. I think this is an interesting question? It’s almost a nature versus nurture question. If […]

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Science Communication – should we bother

April 8, 2009

Why do we (scientists, or science communicators) think we have a responsibility to educate people about science? This may seem like a strange thing for someone studying Sc. Comm. to say but a lot of thought seems to be given to that idea. Would it be enough to just ensure that science wasn’t mis-communicated, or […]

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SF versus Science

April 8, 2009

Seems like I’m not the only one that thinks chicken and egg about science following SF or vice versa… http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/07/science-fiction-new-phrases

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Why do we label science education?

April 7, 2009

Something occurred to me today about communicating science, particularly the difficulties in doing it well. We were discussing the success of TV shows about science, and I began to wonder about the success of show like Brainiac (Sky UK) and other shows that show what we could call ‘cool science’ like Mythbusters for instance. Is […]

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Science News

April 6, 2009

Speaking of evolution of knowledge, here’s an interesting perspective. Obviously the natural (or unnatural) progression of evolution of knowledge could lead to the use of robots with artificial or actual intelligence, or as I like to call it, the humanisation of robots. Check out the article from Waltz and Buchanan in the April issue of […]

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Science thought for the day

April 6, 2009

To what extent has science communication evolved in the manner that philosophy of science has evolved? Of course there’s evidence that the means of communicating science has evolved but what of the way science is communicated. There’s quite a lot of science communicated badly nowdays for instance, but was this evident in the past? The […]

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SF and all that versus Science and all that

April 3, 2009

So, anyone think there’s any value in SF as opposed to Science? Well, maybe not science but what about technology? For instance, how many of you realised that the flip mobile phones are obviously based on the original Star Trek communicators? Or what about the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? As the book itself […]

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Why is science so difficult to understand?

April 1, 2009

Apparently only 50% of people know or care about what goes on in Science and Technology in the world! I’ve also read that about 10% are actual science professionals who understand fully what’s going on in the world – I think it’s a much smaller number than this… In any case, there is a problem […]

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