“Ben Bova: Science-fiction conventions are nothing to laugh at - Naples Daily News” plus 9 more

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• Ben Bova: Science-fiction conventions are nothing to laugh at - Naples Daily News
• Science party - Farmington Independent
• Snuffing out science - Minneapolis Star Tribune
• Native American youths improve science skills - Omaha World-Herald
• Dayton brain science and...mind reading - Examiner
• The Other Side of Science - nybooks.com
• Weird Science: cinema's 5 worst genetic experiments - abc40
• The Singularity and the Selling of Junk Science - LJWORLD
• U.S. Department of Energy Asks, Is Cloud Computing Fast Enough for Science? - ReadWriteWeb
• Saturday matinee — Mr. Show's "The Limits of Science" - io9.com

Ben Bova: Science-fiction conventions are nothing to laugh at - Naples Daily News Posted: 19 Jun 2010 02:11 PM PDT I've gone to several science-fiction conventions recently. They're fun. There's hardly a weekend throughout the year when there isn't a science-fiction convention going on in some city across this wide land. Most ...

Science party - Farmington Independent Posted: 19 Jun 2010 01:57 PM PDT Amateur scientists, hobbyists and people just looking for an excuse to hike in the woods got a chance to work side by side with research scientists last weekend, and the work they did turned up an impressive range of ...

Snuffing out science - Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted: 19 Jun 2010 12:52 PM PDT By: Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. Publisher: Bloomsbury Press, 355 pages, $27. Review: Oreskes and Conway's book is a dense read, but an important one, making a strong case that a few scientists, backed by big ...

Native American youths improve science skills - Omaha World-Herald Posted: 19 Jun 2010 02:54 PM PDT Forty-eight American Indian youths from Nebraska and South Dakota participated this month in a three-day camp featuring aviation, astronomy and robotics activities. The Science Education Partnership Award Camp was put on ...

Dayton brain science and...mind reading - Examiner Posted: 19 Jun 2010 02:33 PM PDT We usually consider out thoughts to be our most private activity, but what if someone actually could read our minds? Would we insist upon our spouse submitting to "mind reading" as a lie detector test? If we suspected ...

The Other Side of Science - nybooks.com Posted: 19 Jun 2010 02:40 PM PDT One pleasure of reading Steven Shapin on the history of science is that he rarely walks in a straight line. He approaches his subjects indirectly, creeping up on a topic through a thicket of examples, quotations, or ...

Weird Science: cinema's 5 worst genetic experiments - abc40 Posted: 19 Jun 2010 01:00 PM PDT Science fiction films, much more so than books, have always used audience's fear of the unknown in order to sell tickets. Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong, in some exaggerated Hollywood context, especially when ...

The Singularity and the Selling of Junk Science - LJWORLD Posted: 19 Jun 2010 09:25 AM PDT A friend sent me a really interesting article that looks at how people sell junk science. The article focuses on Ray Kurzweil who has proposed an idea called the Singularity at which point he claims we will be able to ...

U.S. Department of Energy Asks, Is Cloud Computing Fast Enough for Science? - ReadWriteWeb Posted: 19 Jun 2010 01:07 PM PDT This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware . How does application performance compare between virtual ...

Saturday matinee — Mr. Show's "The Limits of Science" - io9.com Posted: 19 Jun 2010 03:23 PM PDT Back in 1997, David Cross and Bob Odenkirk's HBO sketch comedy program Mr. Show filmed one of the most memorable depictions of the medieval scientific method ever. Remember — "All facts begin as dreams, dreamt by a ...

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