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AIP Physics Success Stories: Highlights the important links between federal funding for basic and applied research and development and their economic benefits to society.- aip.org/success/ |
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Alan Sokal on the "Social Text Affair": Read all about the hoax in which Sokal submitted a bogus article to a humanities journal, including the article, the aftermath, and his motivation.- www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html |
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Association for Politics and the Life Sciences: Interdisciplinary association concerned with problems or issues that involve politics or public policy and one or more of the life sciences. Journal and newsletter, online membership form, reading lists on various topics, and other information.- www.hass.usu.edu/~apls/ |
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Bay Area Young Scientist Forum: Dedicated to advancing the public understanding of scientific research and the public participation of young investigators outside of their research and development labs in the Silicon Valley.- www.baysf.org/ |
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Biosociety: Website for European Union socio-economic research in the life sciences. Information and research areas, databases, and general aims, as well as discussion forum, networks, and related links.- biosociety.cordis.lu/ |
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CANHELP: Council for the Advancement of a New Human Ethic Life Paradigm. Aims to restructure a new view of the world that values life more than matter. Includes a comparison between the new view and the traditional one. Also, has link to their interdisciplinary college.- www.canhelp.nu/ |
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Cienciateca.com: Scientists Popularizing Science: Collection of articles covering science, technology, and society. Includes stories on evolution, industrial chemicals, energy, and materials.- www.cienciateca.com/stsindex.html |
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cspo.org- www.cspo.org/ |
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Debunking the Conventional Wisdom About the Science Wars: Essays by mathematician Gabriel Stolzenberg arguing that allegations made by Alan Sokal and others of relativist and postmodernist 'science-abuse' in the humanities and social sciences are based largely on hostile misreadings and pop metaphysics.- math.bu.edu/people/nk/rr/ |
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Elitism vs. Checks and Balances in Communicating Scientific Information to the Public: Paper by Arthur Kantrowitz proposing a method for communicating what science knows and doesn't know when facts are needed for public policy decision.- www.fplc.edu/risk/vol4/spring/kantro.htm |
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Forum on Physics and Society: Division of the American Physical Society for discussion of science and society issues.- www.aps.org/units/fps/ |
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Hongladarom, Soraj: Assistant professor of Philosophy at Chulalongkorn University, specialising in problems arising from the interplay between modern science and Thai culture. Biography and academic papers.- pioneer.netserv.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/web/soraj.html |
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Hybrid Vigor Institute: Educational organization created to facilitate the exchange and cultivation of interest in interdisciplinary science research. Publications and details of forthcoming conferences.- www.hybridvigor.org/ |
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ihe.be- biosafety.ihe.be/ |
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Institute of Science in Society: Membership organization in the UK, offering news articles, mailing lists, and membership information.- www.i-sis.org.uk/ |
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ISSS: International Society for the Systems Sciences Homepage- www.isss.org/ |
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Man Transformed: French museum exhibit showing how technology can modify our conception of humanity.- www.cite-sciences.com/english/ala_cite/expo/tempo/defis/homtrans/index.htm |
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Negrotti, Massimo: Director of the Lab for the Culture of the Artificial, University of Urbino, Italy. Page includes books, research interests, music and photos.- digilander.libero.it/maxnegro/Nuova1.html |
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Noise: UK-wide campaign funded by EPSRC to raise awareness of science and engineering among young people.- www.noisenet.ws/ |
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Politics & Science: Report by the minority staff of the Government Reform Committee assessing the treatment of science and scientists by the Bush Administration.- www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/ |
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Preeminent Scientists Protest Bush Administration's Misuse of Science: Report from Union of Concerned Scientists, with endorsements.- www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release.cfm?newsID=381 |
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RiskWorld: Resources on risk assessment and risk management in medicine, environment, and society at large.- www.riskworld.com/ |
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Ristex: - Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (Japan)- www.ristex.jp/english/top_e.html |
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Science-as-Culture: Internet mailing list. Site includes subscription tools and archives.- maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/sci-cult.html |
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sciencecafe.net- www.sciencecafe.net/ |
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scienceforpeople.com- www.scienceforpeople.com/ |
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Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law Program: A project to examine intellectual property issues associated with electronic publishing in science.- www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/sfrl/projects/epub/ip.htm |
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Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law: Scholarly association fostering interdisciplinary exploration of issues at the intersection of law, biology, and evolutionary theory. Features conference details, notices, other organization information, and links.- www.law.asu.edu/HomePages/Jones/seal/default.htm |
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Summer School at Institute of Communication, Lund University.: June 5-18, 2004 - Sciences and Humanities in a Changing world. The school is based on three two-week courses by distinguished scholars.- www.icomm.lu.se/summerschool |
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TechNet: The Technology Network of the World Bank: Designed to encourage understanding of, and promote the use of science, technology and information in development.- www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/technet/ |
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Technology and Culture: A scholarly journal dedicated to the historical study of technology in its relationships with society and culture.- shot.press.jhu.edu/Publications/Technology_And_Culture_Main.htm |
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The Canadian Science and Innovation Indicators Consortium (CSIIC): Researches bibliometrics and other quantitative measures of scientific work for use in public and private decision making.- www.csiic.ca/ |
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The Edge - The Third Culture: Collected works and ideas of intellectuals whose work bridges the gap that C.P. Snow identified as existing between traditional intellectuals and the sciences. Topics include physics, evolutionary biology, philosophy, psychology, artificial life, chaos theory, neural nets, fractals, and others.- www.edge.org/3rd_culture/index.html |
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The Masters of History: A book about the impact of science and engineering on society.- www.geocities.com/savitz_1999/masters.htm |
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thenewatlantis.com- www.thenewatlantis.com/ |
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Virtual Society?: Introduction to the Virtual Society? Programme: the social science of electronic technologies.- www.brunel.ac.uk/research/virtsoc/intro.htm |
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Voice of the Shuttle (VOS): An annotated guide to online resources that respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences.- vos.ucsb.edu/index-netscape.asp |
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W3C Technology & Society Domain: Concentrating on issues that arise from applications of Web technology, and devoting significant resources to international public policy issues.- www.w3.org/TandS/ - in cache |
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wacra-europe.org- www.wacra-europe.org/ |
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Worldwide Virtual Network of Young Practitioners Working on Science and Society Issues: Aims to enhance the communication, discussion and collaboration between researchers and other groups of practitioners (e.g. NGOs, policy makers, media, etc.) in Science and Society.- alba.jrc.it/science-society/ |
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zensci.com- www.zensci.com/ |
