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Science : 2015August07Friday

Amy Poehler, Megan Amram Smart Girls' Science Video Series Is Guaranteed To ... - Forbes

Officials talk science standards, new assessments - Iowa City Press Citizen

Science Watch: Look Into the Eye of a Cow - Gawker

President Obama honors top math and science teachers - National Science Foundation (press release)

Men Masturbated For Science, And Here's What Came Of It - Huffington Post

The truth about discrimination in science, from six female professors - Quartz

Science fiction: the realism of the 21st century - The Guardian

Power of pupils is in their shape - Science News

Elsewhere in Science, 7 August 2015 - ScienceCareers.org

US research agencies accused of stifling communication of science - Royal Society of Chemistry

Space Science : 2015August07Friday

Burley science teacher returns from "space" - KMVT

NASA captures 'crab-like' image on Mars - Science Times

NAS: The Space Science Decadal Surveys: Lessons Learned and Best Practices - Space Ref (press release)

NASA MSFC Solicitation: National Space Science Technology Center Research Facility - Space Ref (press release)

Trouble in orbit: the growing problem of space junk - BBC News

Suntory Is Sending Whisky Into Space (For Science) - Forbes

Planet Earth Shines in Weather Satellite's 1st Photo from Space - Live Science

UK shifts its space-science strategy - Nature.com

Gloucestershire radio ham manages to contact International Space Station - The Independent

North Schuylkill students learn science of rockets - Republican & Herald

Life Science : 2015August07Friday

Which Mass. life science firm is sitting on the most cash? It's not who you think - Boston Business Journal (blog)

3 Life Science Stocks to Sell Now - Investorplace.com

Life science grant helps UMass biochemist secure science foundation grant - MassLive.com

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Selects Life Science Industry's 'Gold Standard' for ... - MarketWatch

UC to fund early-stage life science startups - SiliconBeat

Life Science Omics Tools/MDx Stocks Inch up in July - GenomeWeb

SD life science market seen strongest ever - San Diego Source (subscription)

Illumina to Acquire GenoLogics Life Sciences Software - Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

San Diego life science ranks 4th in U.S. - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Is That Really Alien Life? Scientists Worry Over False-Positive Signs - Space.com

Physical Science: 2015August07Friday

Elsewhere in Science, 7 August 2015 - ScienceCareers.org

Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table - New York Times

Volcano camp aims to recruit young women into science careers - Longview Daily News

Murray nominated to senior role at Department of Energy - Harvard Gazette

Summer program helps teachers engage in science in the classroom - Baylor College of Medicine News (press release) (blog)

Pupil shape linked to animals' place in ecological web - UC Berkeley

Voting bias taps into 'caveman' instincts - Science /AAAS

Gale's Career Online High School Offers a Fresh Start (and Cheerleaders) - Library Journal

Life, the multiverse and everything - The Economist

A scintillating shortlist for the Royal Society prize - Nature.com (blog)

Social Science: 2015August07Friday

These Social-Science Nuggets Can Make You a Smarter Debate-Watcher - New York Magazine

New TU dean looking at melding criminal justice, social science - Tiffin Advertiser Tribune

Want to know what makes people tick? Study social science - The Guardian

'The Stanford Prison Experiment': Social science gone wrong - The Seattle Times

Religion is a Social Science. Should It Be Studied Like One? - Big Think (blog)

Not Just STEM: Why We Need to Fund the Social Sciences - Pacific Standard

Social science caricature sets back human progress - Los Angeles Times

Damning Revelations Prompt Social Science to Rethink Its Ties to the Military - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)

Prestigious fellowships for researchers in humanities, social sciences - UC Berkeley

Social science: to fund or not to fund? - Los Angeles Times

Earth Science: 2015August07Friday

Special edition of Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences: Celebrates Royal ... - EurekAlert (press release)

Watch The Moon Photobomb The Earth From 1 Million Miles Away - Popular Science

NASA Snaps Pics Of 'Space Peanut' As It Passes By Earth - Tech Times

Teachers from throughout Illinois attend earth science workshop - Annanews

Earth science: Big geochemistry - Nature.com

What exactly does NASA use its Earth sciences money for? - WHIO

NASA satellite camera takes an 'EPIC' new photo of Earth - Boston.com

Meeting of Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences Dr. Harsh ... - Business Standard

EARTH: Oceans revealed on icy moons - EurekAlert (press release)

Science Editor- Earth Science (Planet Earth) - EdSurge