There are a number of different connections between values to science. These sometimes get lumped together in the values and science literature. Even when they are distinguished, it isn’t always noted that each connection applies to somewhat different values and applies to somewhat different aspects or parts of science. Values are involved in deciding to […]
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Most of the technologies that support our modern high-tech lifestyles contain elements that most of us have never heard of. Some may have heard of lithium or cobalt, which are essential to make advanced batteries, but elements such as indium, which is used in smart phones, neodymium, which is an essential part of wind turbines, […]
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The March for Science may herald a new activism on the part of scientists, and that is tremendous. People are marching for a variety of reasons (for science, for funding and their jobs, against Trump, for more inclusion of scientists in the political process, to demonstrate a love for science, to change the culture of […]
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The International Women’s Day, celebrated on March 8 since 1975, this year witnessed the publication of Elsevier’s “Gender in the Global Research Landscape”. The study investigated publications and citations in the Scopus database in 27 knowledge areas of 12 countries and compared the gender distribution in the authorship of scientific papers in the periods 1996-2000 […]
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Last week a piece of science news popped up: The jet stream had apparently crossed the equator and thus created a “climate emergency” that announced a catastrophic collapse of the food supply. It sounded preposterous, but as what little climate expertise I have is limited to the northern latitudes (I’m not an atmospheric scientist), I […]
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