Also this week in Science... SCIENCE AT THE OLYMPICS: Does Doping Work? (subscription required).
Betweeen 2004 and 2007 I collaborated on the renovation of the Museum of the History of Science in Florence, now Galileo Museum, where I curated two permanent galleries: The Spectacle of Science and Science at Home.
In fact, in a separate and rather over-looked announcement yesterday, UEA said that it is now going to reassess the science involved, science at the heart of the whole climate change debate.
She also blogs about the real science behind science fiction at www.leahcanscience.com.com
These were the other winners: The science educator award went to Steven H. Kaye, a teacher of biology, earth science and science research at James Madison High School in Brooklyn.
As I admired a pinned specimen of the largest bee in nature, collected over 150 years ago, I marveled at how science begets science, through the ages, bringing order to nature and quiet comfort to us scientists.
Interviews and a follow-up focus group with faculty members from departments in computer science, health science, and engineering at Canadian Universities elicited items for the new scale.
This followed a Freedom of Information request made by Edward Tufte, emeritus professor in political science, computer science and statistics at Yale University, for PowerPoint briefings pertaining to the flight.
The second and third were more pointed, and attempted to draw a sharp line between science "journalism" (contextualising, investigating and, at times, challenging science) and science "communication" (a public relations exercise).
-E.L. "Dr. Science's Science Time Science-va-ganza!" at B103 - at Mount Vernon United Methodist Church Story tellers Adam Ruben and Chuck Na produce and star in this parody of science demonstrations.
