Guest post by Zachary Anderson, University of Toronto Recently Indonesia was hit by massive forest fires, which were largely ignored by the Western media, despite their severe scale and impact. I feel moved to respond to George Monbiot’s recent opinion piece in the Guardian about the disaster, as well as comments on social media asking…
Spectacular cynicism: Seeing Indonesia’s fire and haze from the margins
Science policy, social media and skepticism
Science is Vital protest outside the Treasury, 2010 By Alice Bell, Research Fellow, SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research The Royal Institution is up for sale. There are many interesting things about the fuss this has caused. One of which is that Harry Kroto has taken to Twitter.It’s what happens now when scientists…
Media coverage archive 2006-2011
STEPS Centre media coverage 2006-2011 Gates Tells G20 Innovation is the Key to Development, SciDev.net, 4 Nov 2011, STEPS member Adrian Ely comments A new colonial carve up? Ian Scoones quoted in Geographcial Magazine, 1 August 2011 When knowledge is uncertain, experts should avoid pressures to simplify their advice, according to an article in Nature…