Read more about medicinal chemist Kamil Paruch, physical chemist Piotr Garstecki, and evolutionary biologist Csaba Pàl in "On Going Home: Succeeding in Science in Eastern Europe".
He also hired a real reporter to sit alongside the manuscript editors, a beginner called Nigel Hawkes, who would go on to become science editor of the Times.
The arresting thing about Scientific American's coverage, however, was not this barrage of ineffective rejoinders but the editor's notion of what was going on: "Science defends itself against the Skeptical Environmentalist," he announced.How can using science to show that the world's forests are not disappearing, and the rest, constitute an attack on science?That is amazing.
And while all this was going on, science became increasingly data-intensive as new instruments spewed out unimaginable amounts of information.
ScienceInsider is blogging live from the House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee's hearing on climate science going on right now, along with NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt (who usually blogs at RealClimate).
Q: What's going on with science at TNC? A: They're interested in diversifying their science base, encompassing the whole of land-use planning.
The existence of two conflicting narratives about America's education and scientific labor market, each put forward by prominent and respected scientific figures, reveals a deep discontinuity in perceptions of what is going on in science.
It's postmodern going on science fiction".
Because it seeks principles that underlie all physical objects, it follows from reflections on and goes beyond science; because it still refers to such objects and acknowledges that its conclusions need to be consuistent with verification by the senses, however, it is not metaphysics.
This is just housekeeping – there's no science going on yet.
When I first started here, I had visions of performing breakthrough science, going on to become a world-renowned professor of some sort, and, who knows, maybe even a visit from Nobel?
