Book Review: Alternative and Activist New Media

Alternative Logics: A Book Review

A few years ago, Bill Gasarch, editor of the Book Review Column, sent me a copy of the book Alternative Logics: Do Sciences Need Them? [28], edited by Paul Weingartner, and asked if I was interested in reviewing it. The book is a collection of essays discussing whether there is a need for logics other than classical logic in various areas of science. Interestingly, I had just finished reading a...

Book review: Mobility and Locative Media

Locative media have been on the public agenda since the mid2000s when GPS became available in smartphones, spawning applications such as GoogleMaps, Foursquare, Runkeeper, etc. They are becoming increasingly significant in the everyday routines of smartphone users, and in media design and innovation. While these issues are clearly important, and the individual contributions in this book deal wi...

Book Review | New Books

Background: The need for fast and accurate scoring functions has been driven by the increased use of in silico virtual screening twinned with high-throughput screening as a method to rapidly identify potential candidates in the early stages of drug development. We examine the ability of some the most common scoring functions (GOLD, ChemScore, DOCK, PMF, BLEEP and Consensus) to discriminate corr...

Book Review: The New Sovereignty

Risk Socity: Towards a New Modernity (Book Review)

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