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Of Hares and Lions
Alarmed at sound of fallen fruit A hare once ran away The other beasts all followed suit Moved by that hare’s dismay. They hastened not to view the scene, But lent a willing ear To idle gossip, and...
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The Final Frontier
Circling the earth in the orbital spaceship, I marveled at the beauty of our planet. “People of the world! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty — not destroy it!” —Yuri Gagarin Yuri Gagarin It...
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Tending Towards Savagery
I am no particular fan of the monarchy, but Prince Charles was given a bad rap in 2003 when he called for the Royal Society to consider the environmental and social risks of nanotechnology. “My first...
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You Get What You Pay For
Be careful about provoking scientists. They can be persistent. The issue I’m writing about today was first raised a quarter century ago when Henry Herman (“Heinz”) Barschall published two papers in...
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Top Science/Law Story of 2012: Manslaughter Conviction of Seismologists
To me, choosing a “top” news story that implicates law and science that occurred in 2012 is easy: the manslaughter conviction of six Italian scientists who failed to predict the April 2009 earthquake...
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