BY JOHN THOMPSON, STEPS Centre member AAAS Day 2: Friday 16 Feb 2007 The challenge at a conference of the size and scope of this year’s AAAS annual meeting is…
AAAS DAY 2: SO MANY SESSIONS, SO LITTLE TIME
AAAS DAY 1: HOLDREN & THE 10% ‘TITHE’
BY JOHN THOMPSON, STEPS Centre memberAAAS Day 1: Thursday 15 Feb 2007 AAAS President John P. Holdren (pictured right) used his presidential address to urge swift action to build a…
Inside track from the AAAS annual meeting
John Thompson was among the 10,000 scientists, journalists, students and members of the public to attend the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in…
DEMOS ATLAS OF IDEAS: SOME UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
BY IAN SCOONES, co-director of the STEPS Centre A set of new reports from Demos, a London-based think-tank, argue that there is a new geography of science and innovation emerging,…
SCIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, POWER & POLITICS: A NEW VIEW
“It’s no longer enough to think about power in a top-down manner – the people on whom, and in relation to whom, power gets exercised are an indispensable part of…