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Month: May 2011

Philosophy/Society

Evolutionary psychology, demarcation, and grand unified theories

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Praj / 6 Comments

Last week evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa published the highly controversial “Why Black Women are Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women.&...

Education

The STEM Conundrum

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Praj / 1 Comment

Via the Eduwonk, I came across this discussion on STEM Education over at the National Journal. Steve Peha (scroll down and read his entire response) argues that...

Blog Dump

Stuff to read

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Praj / 0 Comment

In the off chance you’re lucky enough to not be updating resumes, applying to jobs, and preparing for interviews this weekend, here’s some stuff to ...

Economics

Fostering Innovation

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Praj / 1 Comment

Another quick link to another blog. Check out Financial Times columnist Tim Hartford calling for more experimentation and risk-taking: I think our system for pr...

Basic Research

Unclogging the drug pipeline

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Praj / 1 Comment

David Bornstein reports on a promising approach to increase the number of drugs produced by medical research: Researchers in the foundation’s four partner labs ...

Communication

Complicated, deeply reported, long-form science journalism

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Praj / 2 Comments

About one month ago DC reporter Shani Hilton caught some flack for ignoring the poor in a piece on black middle-class gentrification. Rather than add to the cri...

Philosophy

Why scientists should learn philosophy

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Praj / 5 Comments

In a sprawling, dense, 10,000-odd word tract on philosophy in science that took me several weeks to get through, Michael Pearl suggests that advancing scientifi...

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