For thirty-six years, I was a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), most of the time spent doing some variation of atmospheric science and simulation with an extended foray into nonlinear solvers. But no more. As of last Friday, I became part of the “road-kill” in a process of lab downsizing. Following a […]
In his Times Eye on Science Blog of 11 July, Michael Lemonick addresses the issues of Saving American Science, the theme of a recent meeting by the Aspen Science Center. The theme of lagging U.S. innovation in science and technology has been rising as a concern for several years now. Congressman Frank Wolf provides some […]
One of the interesting things mentioned at this year’s Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop was the use of writing a book review as a venue for one’s own essay. John Horgan, who was the leader of my small group at the workshop, did this with his review of Chris Mooney’s The Republican War on Science. […]
I’ve been reading the comments Elise Hancock makes on scientific opinion and consensus (pages 14-18) in her book on Science Writing, Ideas into Words. Hancock characterizes, correctly I believe, that scientific consensus is not like the precedence of law. In law, there are conflicting opinions and the precedence of former court cases, but there is […]
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