Books on Science: The Problems in Modeling Nature, With Its Unruly Natural Tendencies
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A new book argues that nature is too complex and depends on too many processes that are poorly understood or little monitored to be modeled using computer programs.
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Changes at The Journal: movable deadlines and a new taste for models.
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In the beginning there was Darwin. And then there was intelligent design. How the next generation of 'creation science' is invading America's classrooms. By Evan Ratliff from Wired magazine.
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Nature is pretty good at solving engineering problems, so designers are increasingly turning to biomimetics to improve their products and ideas. By Rowan Hooper.
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The American Museum of Natural Historyâs show is enlightening, yet frustrating:  It presents a free-flowing flood of data and has an overly insistent and predictable message.
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For your inner entomologist: Insects that appear plucked from a future in which artificial intelligence has triumphed over the natural world.
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Description: Two scientists pose a new evolutionary idea: We run, therefore we are. They contend that humans developed the way they did in order to run long distances.
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By Millar, Heather  It seems like such a tall order: Proactively plan human activities so that they mesh with the natural environment. Try to approach nature as a system, even though we don't now, and may never, fully understand all of its' complexities.
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Science & environment: It now seems that just about anything can be sold as being 'green'. Ravi Somaiya goes in search of some of the more weird and wonderful examples.
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By Gerrodette, Tim  HOW TO SAVE OCEANIC LIFE Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity. Elliott A. Norse and Larry B. Crowder, eds. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2005. 470 pp., illus. $49.95 (ISBN 9781559636629 paper).
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Nutrition, obsession, global business:  an exploration of our second most basic desire.
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Two provocative books criticizing homework came out recently. Both are by reputable, well-informed authors, so I was surprised to find these good people trying to get away with hyperbole and incomplete data unworthy of them.
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(Gene Emery is a columnist who covers science and  technology. His Internet address is GEmery(at)Cox.net. Any  opinions in the column are his alone.)
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Science instructor Roxanne Hunker&#39;s methods are a bit unorthodox: She shuns science textbooks and seldom assigns homework. Yet year after year, her hands-on instruction has groomed a multitude
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Science & environment: Bad science: Christmas is a time for harmless lies, the chocolatey indulgences of the thought world
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Tycho: There are two things I must mention.First, Gabriel liked the cover for book four (entitled "Birds Are Weird") so much that he wanted to make a poster of it, and it's not worth arguing with him when he gets like that so we let him do it. It is, even now, awailable!Also: PAX preregistration opens today, and since we've had a couple of these now you probably know if it's something you'd like to attend. You save ten dollars over the door price, which is, like, ten bucks. This is money you could put toward some other purpose!(CW)TB
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Description: We check in with the progress of search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A paper published this week in the journal Nature argues that for sending lots of data over long distances, it&#39;s hard