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"Znanost na eteru" je radioemisija na Radio SC kojom se nastoji popularizirati znanost, obradom zanimljivih tema iz svijeta znanosti na način da nešto od toga probave bakica s placa, ulični huligan, klinci svih uzrasta i vrhunski znanstvenici. Urednici: Bojan Markičević i Jakov Ivković

Mreža projekata koji se bave popularizacijom znanosti na području Splita. 

A couple of times recently I've heard people complaining that sports coverage in the news is expected to be highly technical and laced with jargon, but that if a science or technology story uses any specialist language or jargon whatsoever it's derided publicly as "elitist" and "inaccessible". 

For Good Reason is the interview program hosted by D.J. Grothe, promoting critical thinking and skepticism about the central beliefs of society. Interviews often focus on the paranormal, pseudoscience and the supernatural. Each episode of For Good Reason also features an audio essay by Jamy Ian Swiss, The Honest Liar. The show is produced in association with the James Randi Educational Foundation.

Dobro složen leksikon o znanosti, istraživanju, znanstvenoj metodologiji i sl.

Why do we exist and what are we supposed to do about it? What started the Universe and was it a mistake? Does God exist and why does he seem so interested in our sex lives? I wrote the toughest 85 questions I could think of, about our purpose and the nature of existence, and then asked hundreds of people all over the globe, such as: Indian holy man Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (The Art of Living), evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), 24th generation Chinese Taoist Master Zhang Chengda, Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind (co-discoverer of string theory), wrestler Rob Adonis (founder of Ultimate Christian Wrestling), confrontational evangelist Brother Jed Smock, novelist Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game), director Irvin Kershner (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back), Stonehenge Druids Rollo Maughfling & King Arthur Pendragon and many more… How would YOU answer? Roger Nygard, Filmmaker

Unfortunately, says Feynman's Caltech colleague David Goodstein in his new book On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science (Princeton University Press, 2010), some scientists do try to fool their colleagues, and believing that everyone is conventionally honest may make a person more likely to be duped by deliberate fraud. Nature may be subtle, but she does not intentionally lie. People do. Why some scientists lie is what Goodstein wants to understand.

Publication of American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The idea for Science Duck bubbled up from the need to unleash the scientific method (or at least a blog-friendly version thereof) on overlooked issues that are nonetheless important to all of us (e.g., establishing the correlation between breast size and salary for Hollywood actresses) and not just trivial nonsense like the origin of the universe or stopping malaria.

Our articles are cleverer than our slogans

Duhoviti samoreferencijalni tekst o tome kako novine prenose vijesti o znanstvenim člancima.

"How many of you lost your faith because somebody called you an idiot?" A talk by Phil Plait on how to promote rationalism where the question above played a key role in that presentation. Plait expects that most skeptics will say that they were not convinced of skepticism by being called an idiot and proposed that we quit using practices that do not work.

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