The SciencesJanuary 25, 2013
Can we combat chemophobia ... with home-baked bread?
Stories by Janet D. Stemwedel
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
The SciencesJanuary 23, 2013
Reasonably honest impressions of #overlyhonestmethods.
The SciencesJanuary 17, 2013
Fear of scientific knowledge about firearm-related injuries.
December 27, 2012
“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.
HealthDecember 26, 2012
Scientific knowledge, societal judgment, and the picky eater: Interview with Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic (part 2).
HealthDecember 25, 2012
Can science help the picky eater? Interview with Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic (part 1).
The SciencesDecember 24, 2012
Competing theories on the relation between Santa and the elves.
The SciencesDecember 12, 2012
Are scientists obligated to call out the bad work of other scientists? (A thought experiment)
The SciencesDecember 7, 2012
Thoughts on the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre.
The SciencesNovember 29, 2012
Book review: Cooking for Geeks.
The SciencesNovember 6, 2012
DonorsChoose Science Bloggers for Students 2012 update.
The SciencesNovember 6, 2012
Science education: Am I part of the solution, or part of the problem?
The SciencesNovember 3, 2012
DonorsChoose Science Bloggers for Students 2012: helping classrooms in the aftermath of Super-storm Sandy.
The SciencesNovember 1, 2012
We dodged the apocalypse, so let's help some classrooms.
The SciencesOctober 22, 2012
The danger of pointing out bad behavior: retribution (and the community's role in preventing it).
The SciencesOctober 19, 2012
Reading the writing on the (Facebook) wall: a community responds to Dario Maestripieri.
The SciencesOctober 17, 2012
On the apparent horrors of requiring high school students to take chemistry.
The SciencesOctober 16, 2012
Ada Lovelace Day book review: Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science.
The SciencesOctober 15, 2012
Kicking off DonorsChoose Science Bloggers for Students 2012.
The SciencesSeptember 30, 2012
Community responsibility for a safety culture in academic chemistry.
The SciencesSeptember 28, 2012
Why does lab safety look different to chemists in academia and chemists in industry?
The SciencesSeptember 27, 2012
Gender bias: ethical implications of an empirical finding.
TechnologySeptember 9, 2012
Technical note about comments.
The SciencesSeptember 7, 2012
Dueling narratives: what's the job market like for scientists and is a Ph.D. worth it?