... science education wouldn’t fix Star Trek’s bad science, argues John Scalzi. But it doesn’t matter. . ... Aside from James Kirk, the main characters in Star Trek are a science officer, a linguist, a mathematical whiz kid, a doctor, ... to all the technical progress of the last few decades. . . . most of super-educated and science-positive folks I know love their Star Trek and Star Wars ...

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... disaster-prone staff and unruly students, seems to have managed until now without a science department. This changed with the Wednesday 11 November episode, which featured helpings of bad science and bad education. Plot summary. A student nicks ... carefully monitored precisely because it is drinkable. This leads neatly into the bad education. At Waterloo Road, IMS is kept in an unlocked wooden ...

In this week’s AMC column, I explain why better basic science education, while laudable and probably necessary in a larger sense, will almost certainly not improve the bad science one finds in most science fiction movies, like the most recent Star Trek flick (or indeed much of that series). I point out Star Trek primarily because it just came out ...

... that BNP leader Nick Griffin recently made about indigenous Britons. From the article titled Nick Griffin's Bad Science.Watching Nick Griffin's performance on Question ... his objectionable views and evasive answers. He also seems to have a distinctly sketchy grasp of science, which he misrepresents to support his idea that Britain belongs to its "indigenous ...

There have been three unconnected but referential events in Newcastle around health, science and art. Artists Zoë Walker & Neil Bromwich, Michael Pinsky ... Casebook at the Baltic. Ben Goldacre visited the Centre for Life to talk about Bad Science and how journalists can kill. Adinda van ‘t Klooster talked about and demonstrated her emotion light protoype at Lunch Bytes Culture Lab ...