The interview began not with a discussion of science, but rather with criticism of President Obama's Clean Power Plan.
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes seismologist Lucy Jones for a discussion of science, natural disasters and public education.
Looking back nearly thirty years later, one of the conference's organizers, the Nobel laureate Paul Berg, wrote, "This unique conference marked the beginning of an exceptional era for science and for the public discussion of science policy.
Fears the popular discussion of science might suffer after the postponement of Richard Dawkins Australiann tour were dispelled by Warne, who explained his somewhat tongue-in-cheek take on Darwin's theory of natural selection.
She seeks to bring astrophysics to a wider audience through Science Train, an initiative in which experts chat with New York City subway riders about the final frontier and spur wider public discussion of science.
He briefly discusses explanations in philosophy and then turns to the explanatory role of individual religious experience, drawing on a coherence theory of meaning and on the conclusions from his discussion of science.
Although he satirizes the society, science in general, and its hackneyed experiments, such as trying to extract sunbeams from a cucumber, it's the very discussion of science's role in human life that remained important for the future of the science fiction genre.
The Science Debate initiative, launched with the 2008 presidential campaign to try to develop reasoned discussion of science-framed issues by the candidates, produced a list of 14 questions this year with advice from an array of scientists and scientific organizations and publications.
Informality and bias are hallmarks of the blogging style; a style that could lead to a more sensible discussion of science.
