Science is boring, irrelevant and elitist. It’s clouded in incomprehensible terminology, dogged by in-fighting, and fails to describe the world most people see around them (at least in part because much science these days is focused on the “invisible” or unseen world of quantum mec...

It's been one week since the greatest campaign the Internet has ever seen turned into the promise of the first Internet-era government. Both the traditional media and the blogosphere are overflowing with suggestions for how President-elect Barack Obama can translate his campaign's social med...