Link to an interview with Marc Edwards by Steve Kolowich:
“The Water Next Time: Professor Who Helped Expose Crisis in Flint Says Public Science Is Broken”
Bonus links: “Flint’s Bottom Line” and “The Slow Death of the University”
Tag: Science
Jason Hickel – The Problem with Saving the World
Link to an article by Jason Hickel:
Miya Tokumitsu – Why We Should Listen to Frank Lloyd Wright
Link to an article by Miya Tokumitsu:
“Why We Should Listen to Frank Lloyd Wright”
Basically, an endorsement of Thorstein Veblen‘s economics.
Bonus link: “The FBI vs. Frank Lloyd Wright”
William Davies – We Are All Just Rats in a Cage
Link to an excerpt from the book The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being (2015) by William Davies:
“We Are All Just Rats in a Cage: How the 1 Percent Profits From Your Misery”
Bonus link: “The Happiness Industry and Depressive-Competitive Disorder”
Jonathan Latham – What Happened to Obama’s Promise to Restore Scientific Integrity?
Link to an article by Jonathan Latham:
“What Happened to Obama’s Promise to Restore Scientific Integrity?”
NOVA – The Great Math Mystery
NOVA: The Great Math Mystery (April 2015)
PBS
Director: Dan McCabe and Richard Reisz
“The Great Math Mystery,” an episode of the long-running PBS science show Nova, is in essence an analysis of mathematics and analytic philosophy. In the program, about 99% of the show consists of people from the analytic philosophical school talking about math, plus one token representative from the Continental Philosophy school (Stephen Wolfram) and a few comments by analytic philosophy people about the Continental Philosophy view. What this show desperately needed was a dose of the “fairness doctrine” by giving something closer to 50% of the airtime to the Continental view. Ideally, Alain Badiou would have been featured, because he is perhaps the most well-known living philosopher to argue about the nature of mathematics from outside the caste of “working mathematicians”. Count this episode among the many that PBS airs that is a polemic disguised as an even-handed treatment.
Why Is Climate Denier David Koch on the Board of Top Science Museums?
Syrian Conflict Has Underlying Links to Climate Change, Says Study
Link to an article by Thalif Deen:
“Syrian Conflict Has Underlying Links to Climate Change, Says Study”
GMO Myths and Truths Report
Link to the “GMO Myths and Truth Report”