Category: Science

April 4, 2011

Sera Young — Craving Earth

Recently Sera Young’s Craving Earth: Understanding Pica–the Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk, has received attention from a variety of sources. The Week summarized some of the key elements of pica described in Young’s book, including the desire...

March 28, 2011

Interview with Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli, coauthors of Genetic Justice

The following is an interview with Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli, coauthors of Genetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties: Question: How are people’s privacy rights being compromised by expanding DNA databases for innocent arrestees? Sheldon Krimsky:...

March 7, 2011

Craving Earth (and Ice): Sera Young on Sonic Ice

“I NEVER join these things but I really DO love Sonic Ice!!”– A post on the Sonic Ice Facebook page In Craving Earth: The Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice and Chalk, Sera L. Young examines nonfood cravings described in...

January 21, 2011

Start Worrying – Details to Follow: A Post by Geoffrey Kabat

Geoffrey Kabat is a cancer epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology (Columbia University Press, 2008). Over the past thirty years we...

December 17, 2010

Interview with Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli, authors of Genetic Justice

Leonard Lopate’s show on WNYC includes a weekly future “Underreported,” which looks at issues that are often relegated to the back of the newspaper. The latest installment focused on the use of forensic DNA databanks by law enforcement has exploded...

November 9, 2010

An Interview with B. Alan Wallace

The following is an interview with B. Alan Wallace, author of Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice coming out Fall 2011. In this interview Wallace reflects on some of the major ideas...

October 27, 2010

Interviews with and talks by James Rodger Fleming, author of "Fixing the Sky"

James Rodger Fleming, author of Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control, was recently interviewed by both ABC Radio’s Late Night Live as well as New Books in History. In both interviews, Fleming talks about the...

October 21, 2010

Video for Seth Stein's Disaster Deferred

See below for a video for Seth Stein’s new book, Disaster Deferred: How New Science Is Changing our View of Earthquake Hazards in the Midwest. For more on the book, you can also read an interview with the author, browse...

October 6, 2010

James Fleming and Fixing the Sky at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

For those in the Washington D.C. area, please come out to see James Fleming discuss his book Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at 10:30 am. For...

September 29, 2010

Interview with Seth Stein, author of "Disaster Deferred"

The following is an interview with Seth Stein, author of Disaster Deferred: How New Science is Changing Our View of Earthquake Hazards in the Midwest. Q: What’s wrong with the stories we hear about the 1811 and 1812 New Madrid...

September 22, 2010

James Fleming takes the page 99 test and is featured in the American Scholar

James Fleming author of Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate, explains what page 99 of his book does and does not reveal about his work: Page 99 of Fixing the Sky tells two stories of rain...

August 24, 2010

Interview with James Fleming, Author of Fixing the Sky

In an interview earlier this year with SciCom, James Rodger Fleming, author of Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control, discussed his new book and some of the history and science associated with weather and climate...