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Pleading the Fifth
In 1637, John Lilburne was accused with the crime of shipping seditious books into England from Holland. Forced to appear in the now-infamous Court of Star Chamber — so-named because of the stars...
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You Get What You Pay For
Be careful about provoking scientists. They can be persistent. The issue I’m writing about today was first raised a quarter century ago when Henry Herman (“Heinz”) Barschall published two papers in...
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The Last Place on Earth
Antarctica has been in the news quite a lot recently. We have just passed the 100th anniversary of Amundsen’s and Scott’s attainment of the south pole. Al Gore recently traveled to the continent as...
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Refusing Victory
A few years ago, I traveled to Pisa. It was a pilgrimage of sorts since I have always had a fascination with the cathedral’s belltower. The tower is famous around the world because its construction...
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Top Science/Law Story of 2012: Manslaughter Conviction of Seismologists
To me, choosing a “top” news story that implicates law and science that occurred in 2012 is easy: the manslaughter conviction of six Italian scientists who failed to predict the April 2009 earthquake...
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