Physics and Society Education.


Hake's list of blogs.

Richard Hake is known for his very thorough and complete reviews and lists of references. He has written a paper called "Over two hundred education and science blogs", which can be found at his website and also, with a provision for comments, on blogspot. He has picked some that are especially relevant to the topics of this website:

Joel BEST, John Allen Paulos, Gerald Bracey, Howard Wainer, Gerd Gigerenzer, & Dennis Haack, Statistical Literacy (click on each of the five brown boxes at the top of the page).

James HRYNYSHYN, a freelance science journalist based in western North Carolina, "where he tries to put degrees in marine biology and journalism to good use": The Island of Doubt.

Matthew NISBET, Professor in the School of Communication at American University, where his research focuses on the intersections between science, media, and politics: Framing Science.

Bob PARK Professor of physics and former chair of the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland. In 1983 he was recruited to open a Washington Office of the American Physical Society. Bob initiated a weekly report of happenings in Washington that were important to science. With the development of the internet the weekly report evolved into the news and editorial column What's New. In 2003 he returned to the University full time and continues to write the occasionally controversial column which has developed a following that extends beyond physics. He is the author of Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud, Oxford, 2000, and Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science, Princeton 2008.

REAL CLIMATE, Climate science from climate scientists is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. "We aim to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary. The discussion here is restricted to scientific topics and will not get involved in any political or economic implications of the science. All posts are signed by the author(s), except group posts which are collective efforts from the whole team. This is a moderated forum".

Johnny ROOK lived and worked in Spain, Russia, and the United States. A linguist and historian by training, he taught in several universities and colleges, worked launching rockets in the aerospace industry and as an interpreter in the United States Federal Courts. Johnny Rook's Climaticide Chronicles, are social and political commentary with a special emphasis on global warming and climate change. [Note: Johnny Rook died on 2 March 2009. A moving tribute was written by Meteor Blades, a frontpager at Daily Kos.

Adam SIEGEL is a founding board member of The Energy Consensus (a non-profit focused on enhancing the policy dialogue related to energy issues):

(a) Get Energy Smart NOW!!! is dedicated to the search for more intelligent approaches to critical issues in American and global society, principally in terms of energy.

(b)Energize America is focused on developing energy concepts for potential legislative action using the blogosphere as a developmental platform.

John WHITFIELD is a London-based freelance science writer, writing mostly about evolution, ecology and conservation: Blogging the Origin, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, chapter-by-chapter.

Carl ZIMMER writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist: Discover Magazine Blogs/The Loom.