If I've learned one thing from the history of science and technology, it's that the way people ask questions shapes that way that...
What is Big Data? Part I: "Cultural ideology"
What is Big Data? Lots of people are asking and answering this question. ( This blog included ). Scholars in various fields , inc...
Links: The "human hobbit" at 10, Hurricane Sandy at 2, and Mouse Inception
Heated debate over the 'sick-hobbit hypothesis.' [http://www.nature.com/news/the-discovery-of-homo-floresiensis-tales-of-the-...
Going Global
As Ebola spreads outside the confines of West Africa, public health officials have declared the epidemic to be a crisis on a global scale. ...
Links: Crowdsourcing, reproductive tech, and more on Ebola
Celebrated recreational mathematician Martin Gardner Martin Gardner, indefatigable debunker and longtime editor of the “Mathematica...
PSA: We're on Twitter!
Just a friendly reminder: AmericanScience is on twitter! Follow us @AmericanSciBlog for daily updates on all things science-related.
Links: Planes, maps, and school lunch
Human-computer interaction and the study of airline disasters. http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2009/01/air_crash200901 Whoa! Sorr...
Pluto is a planet again, or not, who cares
In the introductory history of science class I'm teaching this fall, we began with some chapters from Thomas Kuhn's The Structu...
Foggy with a Chance of Profit
The story of a technological metaphor. [http://cloudtweaks.com/humor/] My dad, like many dads, has a keen ear for strangeness in the...
What Difference Does a Chromosome Make?
This feature is cross-posted on Cosmologics , an online magazine project of the Program for Science, Religion and Culture at the Harvard Div...
Weekly Roundup
The last of the megafauna. Julian Fennessy/New York Times Good morning! This week in science news: MIT anthrop...
Disasters and Design
For months, an epidemic of the Ebola virus has torn through West Africa. Official statistics as of Sept 23 report over 6,500 cases of ...
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