Rule 14-1B: "Science" and "Tradition" in Golf Hank 2:16 PM 3 comments Yesterday, the United States Golf Association (USGA) announced a rule change . Coming into effect in 2016, Rule 14-1B will prohibit the use ... Read More
Cold War Science / Cold War Synthesis Helen 10:58 AM No Comments BOOK REVIEW: Audra Wolfe, Competing with the Soviets: Science, Technology, and the State in the Cold War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2... Read More
Wild at Heart: Finding Evolutionary Narratives in Evangelical Christianity Hank 10:40 AM 2 comments We asked Myrna Perez, whose work focuses on the public role of evolutionary biology during the last quarter of the twentieth centur... Read More
The Curious History of the Paleo-Diet, and its Relationship to Science & Modernity Lukas 2:31 PM 11 comments Joseph Knowles emerging from the woods in his "Wilderness Garb," Oct. 4th, 1913 Over the past few years, I've been follo... Read More
The High Quality Research Act: Searching for Ways Beyond "Politicization" Lee 8:51 AM 5 comments This post is a continuation of our on-going discussion here at American Science of Rep. Lamar Smith's High Quality Research Act (HQRA), ... Read More
Analogizing Human Genes Hank 1:25 PM 1 comment We asked Andrew Hogan, a historian of science and medicine whose work focuses on the observational approaches of postwar human genet... Read More
The High Quality Research Act: A Steaming Plate of Democracy, or Careful What You Wish For!! Lee 5:06 PM 4 comments I'd like to build on Hank's post from yesterday , which looked at Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) and Smith's potential legislation, th... Read More