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Capsule Reviews
By Bob Grant
Neurogastronomy, Why Calories Count, The Kitchen as Laboratory, Fear of Food
Female Frontrunners
By Jef Akst
How to successfully surmount the challenges women face in becoming biotech industry leaders
Book Excerpt from Pathological Altruism
By Barbara Oakley, Ariel Knafo, and Michael McGrath
In Chapter 1, editors Barbara Oakley, Ariel Knafo, and Michael McGrath introduce the concept of well-intentioned behaviors that go awry.
Resignations Over AIDS Denial
By Jef Akst
A member of an Italian journal’s editorial board resigns in protest of a paper denying the link between HIV and AIDs.
Opinion: Celebrities Pushing Drugs?
By Howard Brody
Celebrity spokespeople for pharma companies can manipulate the public’s understanding of disease.
A Peer Review Revolution?
By Jef Akst
A new social network provides a novel forum for science publishing and peer review.
JSTOR For Free
By Edyta Zielinska
JSTOR, the online archive of scholarly journal articles, is offering free but limited access to its database.
Britain Announces New University
By Jef Akst
The UK’s universities minister announces a plan for a new science and tech university funded entirely by non-government dollars.
Book Excerpt from Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World
By Marlene Zuk
In Chapter 8, “Pirates at the Picnic,” author Marlene Zuk considers the wisdom of describing the behavior of ants in human terms.
