Feb 14 2013
John Broder of the NY Times recently reviewed the Tesla Model S electric car, and panned it. Now I know nothing at all about this car; I’m not endorsing or criticizing it myself, and I’m not going to be able to tell you anything about the specs on this vehicle or how well or how …
Feb 12 2013
Maybe we just need them for the ones who think global warming attracts meteors.
Feb 11 2013
Captain Kirk always was willing to violate the Prime Directive when it suited him. He went on Reddit to do an IAmA, and guess what he did? Shatner dissed Reddit and the whole idea of irresponsible speech! Now watch: I’m going to immediately derail the whole comment thread by starting a real nerd war: This …
Jan 18 2013
Uh-oh — I told a student just last week that I thought she’d make an excellent science journalist. Maybe it wasn’t such good advice. 95 weekly science sections in newspapers in 1989 34 weekly science sections in newspapers in 2005 19 weekly science sections in newspapers in 2012
Jan 18 2013
The good people at CFI have been getting spammed by the usual cranky suspects on twitter, so they have officially announced their policy for blocking people on twitter. It’s a good set of general rules, and is actually simple common sense: there are people out there who don’t recognize reasonable limits and use twitter for …
Jan 13 2013
Many of you already know that Aaron Swartz, an online activist, committed suicide earlier this week. I didn’t know much about him, but now I’ve learned two things. One, he was a victim of depression. I’ve never experienced this personally — at worst I can say I’ve been sad and stressed at time — but …
Jan 05 2013
Not so good, I’m afraid. If you feel like torturing yourself some more, read the comments on that youtube video. They are…typical youtube comments. I’m not a woman, but I’m a nerd, and we aren’t looking so hot, either.
Jan 03 2013
I said I was done with this guy, but his latest includes a bit that annoys me to no end. Keith Kloor interviews Daniel Sarewitz to get ammo for his claim that religion and science are compatible. Based on your piece, I would presume that you think the two are compatible. However, some of the …
Dec 22 2012
When I agreed that many so-called ‘controversies’ don’t warrant a debate, I wasn’t saying that we shouldn’t cover them…just that they should be addressed appropriately, as fringe issues. The last thing we would want is media silence on, for instance, creationism! Ars Technica has a good piece on why we mustn’t be quiet about weird …
Dec 22 2012
David Hone has a good piece on what constitutes an appropriate subject for debate, and how the media fails. The truth however, is near inevitably that there is only a very small minority making a disproportionate noise about their case. There is no debate over evolution, or the dinosaurian origin of birds, or that HIV …
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