by Darlene Cavalier | Aug 1, 2008 | Social network science
No doubt about it: cancer is scary and it “sucks,” as the kids say. As we age and start to peer ahead at our approaching demographics, the statistical odds aren’t quite as rosy as they were, say, 15 years ago. And, the American Cancer Society...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jul 3, 2008 | Blog, Citizen Science, Social network science
Who doesn’t love fireflies? Except Mean Matthew who, when we were kids, would squish the glow-in-the-dark goo out of them and wipe it on his neck to show off. (Don’t try that at home, kids. This was before real glow-in-the-dark jewelry was sold, and,...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jul 2, 2008 | Citizen Science, Science Policy, Social network science
Winner: Bart Leahy. Congratulations! Your Science Cheerleader T-Shirt is on its way. Bart was the first to respond to this post in which readers were challenged to read science fiction books and report back on what “real science” was learned. See here for...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jun 13, 2008 | Citizen Science, Social network science
If you’re anything like millions of other adult Americans, you were of legal drinking age before you learned that all engineers do not work on trains. Engineers are the source of technology. They take scientists’ basic (and critical) research and they...
