Sixty-five years ago in Nuremberg, Germany, American prosecutors confronted the Nazi physicians who had subjected Jews and others to a murderous regime of medical research. 
Physicists say they have found a bump in their data that might be the Higgs boson, a hypothesized particle that is responsible for endowing other elementary particles with mass. Via Sakis Koukouvis 
L'information télévisée : modèles descriptifs et stratégies de formation. Il y aurait - chez les scientifiques qui communique comme chez les cinéastes avec lesquels ils collaborent - une réflexion insuffisante sur la transformation du fait scientifique en message. Via Gregory FICCA, Julien Hering, PhD 
Le 13 février, les ministres du travail, de l’écologie, de l’agriculture, de l’économie, de la défense et de la recherche ont enfin signé et transmis au président de la Commission nationale du Débat public (CNDP) les engagements du gouvernement sur les suites à apporter au débat public national sur les nanotechnologies de 2009-2010. Le gouvernement devait rendre sa copie depuis... juillet 2010. Rappel des faits, résumé des principaux engagements et premiers éléments d'analyse par l'Avicenn. - Sciences et Démocratie Via Julien Hering, PhD 
Si l'incertitude fait partie intégrante de la science, elle ne saurait justifier l'indécision. Chandrika Nath nous montre comment parler de l'incertitude aux décideurs politiques. - SciDev.Net Via Gregory FICCA, Julien Hering, PhD 
"Dans nos mondes de plus en plus spécialisés, une figure improbable émerge, l'amateur de science. Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond, professeur émérite de l'université de Nice, revient sur ce phénomène dans le dernier numéro de la revue "Alliage"." Via Nath B 
I’ve been thinking a lot about public engagement with science, this week, after reading some great articles/blog posts by Anne Osterrieder, Anna Perman, Lizzie Crouch and The Leading Edge. Curren... 
It might be difficult for anyone above the age of 25 to wrap their head around, but social intelligence in our younger generations may be in jeopardy as a result of our growing dependence on technology. Via Sakis Koukouvis 
PLoS Biology is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that features works of exceptional significance in all areas of biological science, from molecules to ecosystems, including works at the interface with other disciplines. 
The GuardianThe inside story on climate scientists under siegeThe Guardian"It took the scientific community some time I think to realise that the scientific community is in a street fight with climate change deniers and they are not playing by the... 
Whither Academic Publishing?Maryland Morning with Sheilah KastThey're Ph.D. students in sociology at the University of Maryland, and they talked about why they see the current model of academic publishing as outdated. 
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Martin Robbins: Journalists need to get over their unhealthy obsession with individuals, speculative arguments and single studies in a world where context is everything... An invited talk by Rachel Connolly of WGBH; delivered by Kendra Redmond of AIP, at AAPT 2012. 
Axel Kahn, invité par les élèves du département de Biologie de l'ENS Cachan viendra répondre à la question "Faut-il faire confiance aux scientifiques ?" (13 février 2012) Via Julien Hering, PhD 
Loin des polémiques, voici un ouvrage de poids sur le couple science et démocratie. Né d’échanges tenus dans le cadre de l’Institut des hautes études pour la science et la technologie, il regroupe des textes de 21 auteurs d'horizon disciplinaires et d'expériences très variés : philosophes, scientifiques, politistes… Via Julien Hering, PhD 
“The Good Wife” is often at its best when it uses technology as a lens to examine the Florricks’ marriage... 
Biological flying machine? Terrifying monster of the deep? Nope - this is just a scanning electron microscopy image of a Lamnacarus ornatus, or common mite. Via Sakis Koukouvis 
Social scientist and communication expert Mathew Nisbet talks about the state of public climate literacy today. What actions are people likely or not likely to take, and why? How might scientists better engage the public in critical decision-making forums? Constant debates about whether or not global warming is really happening have grown stale and miss the point entirely. Shouldn’t we be talking about how society can leverage climate science in ways that promote economic growth; save lives and valuable natural resources; and create new markets for jobs, products, and... 
A truly revolutionary equation can change human existence more than all the great leaders of history. 
There is some discussion of this within 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) as well. 4S tends to promote science and technology studies as a social science based discipline rather than an as interdiscipline, but there is ... |
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