The Masters of History:
A book about the impact of science and engineering on society.
http://www.geocities.com/savitz_1999/masters.htm
2think.org:
Collection of book reviews and essays, mostly on popular science,
with an emphasis on science as a guide to truth. Also includes a
discussion forum.
http://www.2think.org/
Irish Science Centres Association:
ISCAN fosters and promotes the public understanding of science and
technology in Ireland.
http://www.iscan.ie
Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes:
A non-profit think tank that works with the U.S. Congress on issues
involving science policies and their effects on society. Includes
issues papers and analyses on current topics.
http://www.cspo.org
RiskWorld:
Resources on risk assessment and risk management in medicine,
environment, and society at large.
http://www.riskworld.com/
Alan Sokal on the "Social Text Affair":
Read all about the hoax in which Sokal submitted a bogus article to
a humanities journal, including the article, the aftermath, and his
motivation.
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
World Conference on Science:
Final reports from the international conference, addressing many
aspects of the place of science in society, including ethics,
science and technology in economic development, and environmental
and economic issues.
http://helix.nature.com/wcs/index.html
Belgian Biosafety Server:
Focusing on scientific and regulatory aspects of biosafety, with
regard to human activities carried out using pathogenic or
genetically-modified organisms.
http://biosafety.ihe.be
Biosociety:
Website for European Union socio-economic research in the life
sciences. Information and research areas, databases, and general
aims, as well as discussion forum, networks, and related links.
http://biosociety.cordis.lu/
IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology:
Addressing such issues as environmental, health and safety
implications of technology, engineering ethics and professional
responsibility.
http://radburn.rutgers.edu/andrews/projects/ssit/default.htm
Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law Program:
A project to examine intellectual property issues associated with
electronic publishing in science.
http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/sfrl/projects/epub/ip.htm
National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists:
Addressing matters including scientific fraud, reliability
scientific and technical information available to the federal
courts, legal, ethical, and technological aspects of computer
networks and genetic testing, and intellectual property issues
associated with electronic publishing.
http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/sfrl/committ/ncls.htm
TechNet: The Technology Network of the World Bank:
Designed to encourage understanding of, and promote the use of
science, technology and information in development.
http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/technet/
Virtual Society?:
Introduction to the Virtual Society? Programme: the social science
of electronic technologies.
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/virtsoc/intro.htm
WACRA Europe:
World Association for Case Method Research and Case Method
Application, Europe - Advancing the philosophy that complex economic
and social problems, whether acute or chronic, cannot be solved by
academic research bounded by the conventional constraints of strict
rationality.
http://www.wacra-europe.org
W3C Technology & Society Domain:
Concentrating on issues that arise from applications of Web
technology, and devoting significant resources to international
public policy issues.
http://www.w3.org/TandS/
CANHELP:
Council for the Advancement of a New Human Ethic Life Paradigm. Aims
to restructure a new view of the world that values life more than
matter. Includes a comparison between the new view and the
traditional one. Also, has link to their interdisciplinary college.
http://www.canhelp.nu/
Association for Politics and the Life Sciences:
Interdisciplinary association of scholars, scientists, and
policymakers concerned with problems that involve politics or public
policy and one or more of the life sciences.
http://www.hass.usu.edu/~apls/
Technology and Culture:
A scholarly journal dedicated to the historical study of technology
in its relationships with society and culture.
http://shot.press.jhu.edu/tc.html
Institute of Science in Society:
Membership organization in the UK, offering news articles, mailing
lists, and membership information.
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/
Science-as-Culture:
Internet mailing list. Site includes subscription tools and
archives.
http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/sci-cult.html
Hongladarom, Soraj:
Assistant professor of Philosophy at Chulalongkorn University,
specialising in problems arising from the interplay between modern
science and Thai culture. Biography and academic papers.
http://pioneer.netserv.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/web/soraj.html
The Edge - The Third Culture:
Collected works and ideas of intellectuals whose work bridges the
gap that C.P. Snow identified as existing between traditional
intellectuals and the sciences. Topics include physics, evolutionary
biology, philosophy, psychology, artificial life, chaos theory,
neural nets, fractals, and others.
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/index.html
Voice of the Shuttle (VOS):
An annotated guide to online resources that respects the established
humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points
toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with
the sciences and social sciences.
http://vos.ucsb.edu/index-netscape.asp
Science and Institutions:
Articles by Luis Gonzalez-Mestres, including topics of science
ethics and other social aspects.
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/4605/
Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law:
Scholarly association fostering interdisciplinary exploration of
issues at the intersection of law, biology, and evolutionary theory.
Features conference details, notices, other organization
information, and links.
http://www.law.asu.edu/HomePages/Jones/seal/default.htm
Debunking the Conventional Wisdom About the Science Wars:
Essays by mathematician Gabriel Stolzenberg arguing that allegations
made by Alan Sokal and others of relativist and postmodernist
'science-abuse' in the humanities and social sciences are based
largely on hostile misreadings and pop metaphysics.
http://math.bu.edu/people/nk/rr/
Cienciateca.com: Scientists Popularizing Science:
Collection of articles covering science, technology, and society.
Includes stories on evolution, industrial chemicals, energy, and
materials.
http://www.cienciateca.com/stsindex.html
Hybrid Vigor Institute:
Educational organization created to facilitate the exchange and
cultivation of interest in interdisciplinary science research.
Publications and details of forthcoming conferences.
http://www.hybridvigor.org/
Negrotti, Massimo:
Director of the Lab for the Culture of the Artificial, University of
Urbino, Italy. Page includes books, research interests, music and
photos.
http://digilander.libero.it/maxnegro/Nuova1.html
Forum on Physics and Society:
Division of the American Physical Society for discussion of science
and society issues.
http://www.aps.org/units/fps/
Physics and Society:
Quarterly newsletter; articles on nuclear proliferation, nuclear
power and energy policy.
http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/
American Physical Society Statements:
on ethics and values, education, human rights, and national policy,
from a physics perspective.
http://www.aps.org/statements/index.html
Politics & Science:
Report by the minority staff of the Government Reform Committee
assessing the treatment of science and scientists by the Bush
Administration.
http://www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/
