This blog has a ton of readers from the Madison, Wisconsin area. It’s not surprising given that the university town is a major international hub for interest in science communication […]
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UPDATE: See additional reponse to statements made by Joe Romm. Last night marked the release of the report Climate Shift: Clear Vision for the Next Decade of Public Debate, part of a […]
It was heartening to see that there are tens of thousands of people protesting in Madison day after day. That's the beginning, maybe, of what we really need here: a democracy uprising.
Last weekend, I was at the annual meetings of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, where I met up with longtime collaborators Dietram Scheufele and Dominique Brossard. Along with […]
UWisc-Madison is joining Harvard and Scotland’s University of Edinburgh by investing in a new stem cell research facility that promote cross-disciplinary collaborations. Tonight, in conjunction with a speech by Edinburgh […]
Dr. Norman Frost of the University of Wisconsin at Madison tells Big Think "drug-testing policies in professional sports are completely illogical."
Last night I appeared on a panel here at AU with the editors and contributors to the bold new book “The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice.” The goal of the book […]
My friend Dietram Scheufele sat down a few weeks back for a Q&A interview with one of the magazines produced by the the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Scheufele, a professor of […]
Erik Olin Wright, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, thinks providing free transportation would reduce traffic and pollution, and create more efficient labor markets.
For readers in the Madison area, I will be giving a lecture on Thursday, June 25 at the University of Wisconsin as part of the university’s summer lecture series. The […]
Our recent article at Nature Biotechnology (PDF, news release) has generated attention Down Under, with coverage appearing at the Australian Broadcasting Service and The Australian newspaper.Both outlets do a good […]
The NY Times’ Barnaby Feder offers this report on the City of Berkeley’s decision to regulate nanotechnology locally. As this research area moves more and more into the market, and […]
The Global Language Institute has started a new index that ranks universities by number of media mentions. Below is their top ten universities.I have a few reservations and cautions about […]
You don’t have to be a social scientist to recognize that the distribution of opinion among people who comment at Scienceblogs is very different from the perspective found among the […]
Oxford University Press has published a new edited volume featuring research on public opinion and media coverage of the plant biotech debate in the US, Europe, Africa, India,and Brazil. The […]
The latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education (sub, text below) runs an “at a glance” spotlight on our cover article at The Scientist. A Glance at the October […]
Several colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have a new study out that shows not surprisingly that like-minded conversations drive attitude extremity relative to science policy. Analyzing data from a […]
James Thomson w/ Ian Wilmut (seated)What happens politically when the two scientists most widely associated with therapeutic cloning and embryonic stem cell research appear to abandon cloning and embryo extraction […]
[Image from Salon.com feature on panelist Barbara J. King]Full details are now available for the previously announced panel on Communicating Science in a Religious America at February’s AAAS meetings in […]
For readers in the Madison-to-Minneapolis region, on Thurs. March 27 I will be giving a talk at the University of Wisconson-Eau Claire. I will be covering much of the same […]
Joe Randazzo, editor of one of the most successful root vegetable-themed newspapers ever to emerge from Madison, Wisconsin, sat down with Big Think this afternoon. In an hourlong conversation, BT […]
New research has revealed how the extinction of mammoths and mastodons changed the landscape of the earth.
Big Think recently approached five leading economists for their best predictions on when we will be out of the mess known as our national economy. Watch for their commentary in […]