
Can we combat chemophobia ... with home-baked bread?
Janet D. Stemwedel is a professor of philosophy at San José State University and an OpEd Project Public Voices Fellow. Follow her on Twitter @docfreeride

Can we combat chemophobia ... with home-baked bread?

Reasonably honest impressions of #overlyhonestmethods.

Fear of scientific knowledge about firearm-related injuries.

“Are you going to raise the child picky?” Interview with Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic (part 3).
This is the last part of my interview with Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic, author of Suffering Succotash: A Picky Eater's Quest to Understand Why We Hate the Foods We Hate, conducted earlier this month over lunch at Evvia in Palo Alto.

Scientific knowledge, societal judgment, and the picky eater: Interview with Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic (part 2).

Can science help the picky eater? Interview with Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic (part 1).

Competing theories on the relation between Santa and the elves.

Are scientists obligated to call out the bad work of other scientists? (A thought experiment)

Thoughts on the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre.

Book review: Cooking for Geeks.

DonorsChoose Science Bloggers for Students 2012 update.

Science education: Am I part of the solution, or part of the problem?

DonorsChoose Science Bloggers for Students 2012: helping classrooms in the aftermath of Super-storm Sandy.

We dodged the apocalypse, so let's help some classrooms.

The danger of pointing out bad behavior: retribution (and the community's role in preventing it).

Reading the writing on the (Facebook) wall: a community responds to Dario Maestripieri.

On the apparent horrors of requiring high school students to take chemistry.

Ada Lovelace Day book review: Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science.

Kicking off DonorsChoose Science Bloggers for Students 2012.

Community responsibility for a safety culture in academic chemistry.

Why does lab safety look different to chemists in academia and chemists in industry?

Gender bias: ethical implications of an empirical finding.

Technical note about comments.

Dueling narratives: what's the job market like for scientists and is a Ph.D. worth it?