by Darlene Cavalier | Dec 13, 2009 | Blog, In the News
Research!America is the nation’s largest not-for-profit public education and advocacy alliance. The group creates terrific, participatory online resources like Your Congress, Your Health where you can search by zip code and track your legislators’ views on...
by Darlene Cavalier | Nov 3, 2009 | Blog, Citizen Science, In the News, Writings
In the current edition of the New York Academy of Sciences Magazine, you’ll find a piece co-authored by me and Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. We hope that our op-ed, “The Growth of Citizen Science” helps articulate how “average people” are...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jul 29, 2009 | Blog, Brain Makeover, Events, In the News, Science Policy
Some of you have asked to see the video of the Two Cultures event at the NY Academy of Sciences (I was a panelist for the Science and Policy discussion). Two main architects of this event were Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum, authors of Unscientific America, a...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jul 9, 2009 | Blog, Events, Science Policy
Any day now, I should receive the video of the Two Cultures panel discussions. My panel, pictured here, discussed science policy as it relates to C.P. Snow’s Two Cultures. The moderator, Chris Mooney, and his co-author, Sheril Kirshenbaum, just released their...
by Darlene Cavalier | May 29, 2009 | Blog, Occam's Razor
Presenting Science Cheerleader.com’s newest, regular commentator, Occam’s Razor…our skeptical cheerleader. Take it away, Occam… This year we honor Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday. Few scientists are celebrated so ardently for so long as...
