- Senator Warren Says Fighting for Science Is a Top Priority
- Age of Unreason—"The governments of Britain, Canada and Australia are trying to stamp out scientific dissent."
- Canadian scientists protest against government censorship—"Rules bar government researchers from talking about their own work with journalists and even fellow researchers."
- Republicans put 'national interest' requirement on US science agency—"Proposed bill would require the National Science Foundation to justify awards using criteria including economic competitiveness and national defence."
- US Scientists Are Leaving The Country And Taking The Innovation Economy With Them
- The Government Shutdown Is (Almost) Over, but the Damage to Science Will Last
- Are Republicans anti-science? In this case, yes—"The government shutdown forced by the GOP cost not only $24bn but incalculable damage to scientific research."
- Remember the Government Shutdown? It's Still Screwing Over Scientists in Antarctica
- Scientific research: Looks good on paper—"A flawed system for judging research is leading to academic fraud."
- Who's Afraid of Peer Review?—"A spoof paper concocted by Science reveals little or no scrutiny at many open-access journals."
- Science has lost its way, at a big cost to humanity—"Researchers are rewarded for splashy findings, not for double-checking accuracy. So many scientists looking for cures to diseases have been building on ideas that aren't even true."
- Jack Andraka on the scourge of paywalls for scientific journals
- UK Guardian: BBC Says 'Putting Forward Opinions Not Backed By Science Is Part Of Its Role
- For shame: Trolls defeat Scientific American, Popular Science
- On Science, Communication, Respect, and Coming Back from Mistakes
- When A Black Female Scientist Gets Called An 'Urban Whore'
- Website apologizes, fires editor who called female scientist a "whore"—"An editor who used a misogynistic threat against Dr. Danielle Lee has been fired, but controversy continues." Salon
- Nobel physics prize spotlights Higgs boson, plus Drs. Higgs and Englert
- Bill Nye Wants to Return to Television: 'I Feel Like I Have Something to Say'
- Serbian president unveils Nikola Tesla monument in New York—"President Tomislav Nikolic spoke to the crowd at Tesla's former Wardenclyffe laboratory in Long Island."
- Alan Turing's story could be rebooted by calls to pardon late computer legend WaPo
- McGill student uses 'Bohemian Rhapsody' to explain string theory, Queen guitarist takes note
- Typhoon Haiyan: what really alarms Filipinos is the rich world ignoring climate change—"As Haiyan batters the Phillipines, the political elites at the UN climate talks will again leave poor countries to go it alone." Mother Nature isn't fucking around.
- Climate contrarians are more celebrity than scientist—"A new study identifies climate contrarians as a keystone species in the denial ecosystem."
- World Bank releases new report on climate change, global warming
- Ill. attorney general suing over mounds of refinery waste—"All of the petroleum coke from a nearby BP refinery is stored by KCBX, a company controlled by the wealthy industrialists Charles and David Koch."
- BP launches new website defending the company's response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
- Bad news for Big Coal in Whatcom County
- Voters in Colorado, Ohio Cities Sideline Fracking
- If You Think China’s Air Is Bad ...—"Drinking water has become a casualty of rapid industrialization." NYT
- In a Message to Poachers, U.S. Will Destroy Its Ivory—"Six tons of illegal elephant ivory that the government has been stockpiling for three decades will be crushed and used in antipoaching memorials, officials announced." NYT
- 1.8 tonnes of ivory found in Chinese home in Tanzania
- Hundreds of tortoises found in luggage at Thai airport
- Western black rhino declared extinct
- 'Bullfighting will come back to Catalonia'
- Obama Seeking Fix for Health Insurance Cancellations
- American Health Care’s Good Old Days—"With all the talk of Obamacare victims, it might be helpful to take a trip back in time to when acne and pregnancy were considered preexisting conditions."
- It's Not The Website, Stupid: New Research Says RomneyCare Worked, ObamaCare Will
