Monthly Archives: December 2010

STEM in 2010 C.E.

Nice op/ed at in NYTimes’ DotEarth asking us to think about what was significant in the world of science, engineering, and technology for the past year. Science People & the Planet in 2010 What would you include on the list? … Continue reading

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Fuller’s Latest

Steve Fuller has a new book, Humanities 2.0, which looks at the historical and philosophical currents underlying the creation of a new biotechnological species. At one point he notes: …the idea is very much one of planning for both the … Continue reading

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The Life-World is NOT a Laboratory

An interesting article in the New Yorker on a marked increase in the non-replicability of experimental findings. One might wonder how such a phenomenon might throw different light on peer review criteria, especially the notion of broader impacts within the health … Continue reading

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ID & Phenomenology

The Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists is now three years old. An amalgam of phenomenologists from philosophy, the humanities, and the social sciences, the organization encourages those who have only been writing about what phenomenologists have done to actually … Continue reading

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Conference on ID & Environmental Future

The First International Conference on Environmental Future (ICEFs) preceded the historic 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. The 6th iteration, hosted by Newcastle University, will focus on interdisciplinarity and ‘interdisciplinary’ thinking as key to solving environmental problems. Conference participants … Continue reading

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Ordinary Experts

Here’s a post by Aneesh Chopra (US Chief Technology Officer) and Shelley Metzenbaum (Office of Management and Budget) that both describes and links to what they’re tentatively calling “ExpertNet” — an interesting name for something that is justified in terms … Continue reading

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Mapping Science… & everything else

Science-Metrix, an independent consulting firm “specializing in the assessment of science and technology (S&T) organizations and activities,” has provided a visualization of the connections between scientific disciplines/subfields and the rest of academic research areas. The tool and its various iterations … Continue reading

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Anth Science debate continues.

Reactions to the changes within the American Anthropology Association continue to accumulate — people outside the discipline are starting to notice. For example, at PsychologyToday.com Alice Dreger refers to parallels between this split within the AAA and a decades-old split … Continue reading

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Lubchencoism

I finally got a chance to read Jane Lubchenco’s interview in last Monday’s Washington Post. Given her role as Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), it’s interesting to hear her thoughts on the relationship between science and … Continue reading

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Anthropology sans science?

Recently the Chronicle of Higher Education posted an article on the removal of the word ‘science’ from an American Anthropology Association planning document (Glenn 2010). For example, where a previous draft described anthropology as exploring “the science of mankind,” the … Continue reading

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New NSF Director Hints at “Wriggle Room” for Broader Impacts?

In a recent Newsmaker Interview with Jeffrey Mervis of Science, new NSF Director Subra Suresh had some interesting comments on NSF’s Broader Impacts Criterion (BIC): “I think the spirit of the broader impacts criterion is good,” he explained. “But the … Continue reading

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