IPCC: calling social scientists of all kinds

Calling on scientists to fight budget cuts.

THE FUNDING LEVELS REQUESTED BY THE Bush Administration for 2006 (“Caught in the squeeze,” J. Mervis, News Focus, 11 Feb., p. 832) represent a decrease in science and technology funding across the board. This budget and its priorities do not bode well for American science and technology or for America’s scientists and science students. Underfunding science and technology research and education ...

Should We All be Scientists? Re-thinking Laboratory Research as a Calling.

In recent years there have been major shifts in how the role of science-and scientists-are understood. The critical examination of scientific expertise within the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) are increasingly eroding notions of the "otherness" of scientists. It would seem to suggest that anyone can be a scientist-when provided with the appropriate training and access to data. I...

Calling all leaders.

ing leaders to create a forum to address the enormous challenges that face the profession now, and will continue to do so over the next several years. Many in the profession have been addressing these challenges, typically within the confines of the organizations that employ them. There has been no focused forum where nurse leaders themselves have an intellectual space for dialogue and planning...

All scientists now

houses and were leaders in their community, often masters of several prosperous apprentices with whom they took substantial premiums. Dr Burnby traces the apothecary's rise and clarifies his place in the confused state of medical practice in the early modern period. She describes too the other scientific preoccupations that we might exp6ct apothecaries to have, including chemistry and botany, a...

B-trees: Bearing Fruits of All Kinds