- 125 Questions: What Don't We Know?
 - In depth feature from Science Magazine exploring 125 big questions that face scientific inquiry over the next quarter-century. - American Psychosomatic Society
- Worldwide community of scholars and clinicians dedicated to the scientific understanding of the interaction of mind, brain, body, and social context in promoting health and contributing to the pathogenesis, course, and treatment of disease.
- British Association for the Advancement of Science (The BA)
- Promotes openness about science in society and to engage and inspire people directly with science and technology and their implications.
- Café Scientifique (7)
- Center for Inquiry (CFI) (7)
- Closer to Truth: Science, Meaning and the Future
- PBS program bringing together leading scientists, scholars, and artists to debate latest discoveries and their impact on the human condition.
- Engines of Our Ingenuity
- Tells the story of how culture is formed by human creativity using the record of history to reveal the way art, technology, and ideas have shaped us.
- Evolution, Science and Society: Evolutionary Biology and the National Research Agenda
- Looks at how evolutionary biology will contribute directly to pressing societal challenges as well as inform and accelerate other biological disciplines in the coming century.
- Evolutionary Biology and Ideology: Then and Now
- Paper concerned with 'the attempt to develop a more adequate intellectual framework' for understanding 'the general principles involved in relating science and society'.
- Forum on Physics and Society (FPS)
- Division of the American Physical Society, organized in 1971 to address issues related to the interface of physics and society as a whole. Also includes their newsletter.
- Framing Science
- Matthew C. Nisbet's blog tracking how political strategists, scientists, and the news media selectively define science in ways that shape policy decisions, public opinion, and political culture.
- Global Voices of Science
- Essay series celebrating the 125th anniversary of Science Magazine. Invites researchers from around the world to provide a regional view of the scientific enterprise.
- Human Nature: Science, Culture, and Politics
- Slate column By William Saletan discussing how in this age of science and technology, there are technologies full of implications about who we are and how we should live overrunning our lives.
- IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
- Addresses such issues as health and safety implications of technology; engineering ethics and professional responsibility; and social issues related to energy, information technology, and telecommunications.
- Ingenious
- Collaboration by the Science Museum, the National Railway Museum, and the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television. Site aims to bring together images and viewpoints to create insights into science and culture.
- Institute for Science and Interdisciplinary Studies (ISIS)
- Does work in science and on science, developing a new way of doing science that is open, self reflexive, democratic, and socially responsible.
- Institute of Science in Society (ISIS)
- Working to promote science responsible to civil society and the public good, independent of commercial and other special interests, or of government control.
- LabLit.com
- Dedicated to real laboratory culture and to the portrayal and perceptions of that culture -- science, scientists, and labs -- in fiction, the media, and across popular culture. LabLit features profiles and interviews of scientists, novelists, playwrights, artists, and other notables; humour; opinion; reviews; and artwork.
- Loka Institute, The
- Nonprofit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of science and technology.
- New Atlantis, The: A Journal of Technology and Society
- An effort to clarify the nation¿s moral and political understanding of all areas of technology. Offers both critical essays and in-depth reporting pieces, and an ongoing survey of technology and society.
- Phylotaxis
- Explores the space where science meets culture through constantly updated news stories. By artist Jonathan Harris, for Seed Magazine.
- Science and National Security in the Post-9/11 Environment
- American Association for the Advancement of Science project tracking and analyzing the impacts on science of post 9/11 national security measures.
- Science Café (1)
- Science Controversies On-Line: Partnerships in Education (SCOPE)
- Online communities of scientists, classroom teachers, and science learners focused on current controversies in science that concern scientists and the general public.
- Science Magazine: Essays on Science and Society
- Features the views of individuals from inside or outside the scientific community as they explore the interface between science and the wider society.
- Science the Endless Frontier
- Report to president Franklin D. Roosevelt by Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, July 1945.
- SEED Magazine
- Redefining science's place in popular culture and vice versa.
- The Scientific Activist: Reporting from the Crossroads of Science and Politics
- Blog posting news and commentary on science, politics, and the areas where these dynamic fields clash.
- Third Culture, The: Beyond the Scientific Revolution
- Examines those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are.
- ZenSci
- Discussion of the role of science in society.
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