POPULAR "SCIENCE" AGAIN

"popular" Science.

Social science, spared again.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 333 5 AUGUST 2011 663 COVER A pair of chemical compounds (light blue and purple) target wild-type and mutant forms of the Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter, which mediates the parasite’s (yellow) resistance to the widely used antimalarial drug. Using high-throughput chemical and genetic analyses, Yuan et al. identify potential new antimalari...

Reviews of popular science books.

Do you read popular neuroscience? Do you think Oliver Sacks is spot on and use his books to engage students or do you reckon his patient reports are more like novels or science fiction? Are you taken by Antonio Damasio’s powerful arguments or do you think he did not get his philosophy exactly right? Do you enjoy the writings of William Calvin, Susan Greenfield, Vilayanur Ramachandran or do you ...

Swiss popular initiative for a single health insurer… once again!

The article describes a recent Swiss popular initiative, aiming to replace the current system of statutory health insurance run by 61 competing private insurers with a new system run by a single public insurer. Despite the rejection of the initiative by 62% of voters in late September 2014, the campaign and ballot results are interesting because they show the importance of (effective) public co...

Cognitive science in popular film: the Cognitive Science Movie Index.

HAL 9000. Morpheus. Skynet. These household names demonstrate the strong cultural impact of films depicting themes in cognitive science and the potential power of popular cinema for outreach and education. Considering their wide influence, there is value to aggregating these movies and reflecting on their renderings of our field. The Cognitive Science Movie Index (CSMI) serves these purposes, l...