When science meets religion in the classroom

When Science Meets Religion

Science as religion: when science becomes (too) irrational.

Science is expected to be objective: however, since practiced and produced by humans, it has to reflect human flows - prejudices, stubbornness, malice, and the tendency to be misused. No wonder an excellent scientist like John Eccles proclaimed science to be among the most personal activities he had known. By analysing a few examples from the history of science (in particular the intellectual d...

Animal clocks: when science meets nature.

Daily rhythms of physiology and behaviour are governed by an endogenous timekeeping mechanism (a circadian 'clock'), with the alternation of environmental light and darkness synchronizing (entraining) these rhythms to the natural day-night cycle. Our knowledge of the circadian system of animals at the molecular, cellular, tissue and organismal levels is remarkable, and we are beginning to under...

BEZ235: When Promising Science Meets Clinical Reality

In the July 2016 issue of The Oncologist, Carlo et al. report the results of a phase I clinical trial [1] of BEZ235 in patients with advancedrenal cell carcinoma(RCC).BEZ235 isadualpan-class PI3K and mTOR inhibitor currently undergoing phase I/II clinical trials as a single agent or in combination in solid tumors and hematologic malignancies. The authors are to be congratulated for reportingthe...

COMPUTING SCIENCE Verifiable Classroom Voting: Where Cryptography Meets Pedagogy

In this paper, we propose and have implemented the first verifiable classroom voting system. The subject of secure classroom voting has so far received almost no attention from the security community. Though several commercial classroom voting systems have been available, none of them is verifiable. State-of-the-art verifiable voting protocols all rely on finding a set of trustworthy tallying a...