Stephen Schneider
It’s hard for me to think straight right now, but please check out Andy Revkin’s short write up. I’ve just lost a mentor and a friend.
Month: July 2010
Sports as a pedagogical tool
Roger Pielke Jr. has a post on using sports to examine “questions related to decision making, ethics, politics, prediction and more.” To that list ...
Conflating science with morality
Last week Ross Douthat had a wonderful post on the disturbing tendency to reshape moral and political disagreements in terms of science, thereby restricting deb...
Scientists, pilots and doctors
ClimateScienceWatch has an interview with Steve Schneider, one of the authors on the PNAS paper we just discussed (h/t Joe Romm). I recommend the entire interv...
The myth of scientific exceptionalism
Over the past year or so the paleoconservative blogger Daniel Larison has taken aim at American exceptionalism, a term he finds sloppy and poorly defined (see h...
Listening to the public
Sorry for the light blogging. Things got busy again. I remain perpetually impressed by people who can hold down a full-time job, have a life, and still blog 5...