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Panel on Public Affairs of the American Physical Society
http://www.aps.org/public_affairs/popa/
in-depth studies on topics ranging from energy and environment to national security issues.

Physics and Society
http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/
Quarterly newsletter; articles on nuclear proliferation, nuclear power and energy policy.

Politics & Science
http://www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/
Report by the minority staff of the Government Reform Committee assessing the treatment of science and scientists by the Bush Administration.

Preeminent Scientists Protest Bush Administration's Misuse of Science
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release.cfm?newsID=381
Report from Union of Concerned Scientists, with endorsements.

RiskWorld
http://www.riskworld.com/
Resources on risk assessment and risk management in medicine, environment, and society at large.

Ristex
http://www.ristex.jp/english/top_e.html
- Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (Japan)

Science and Institutions
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/4605/
Articles by Luis Gonzalez-Mestres, including topics of science ethics and other social aspects.

Science and National Security in the Post-9/11 Environment
http://www.aaas.org/spp/post911
Issue briefs and links to useful resources on key issues related to the topic of balancing national security and scientific openness.

Science For People
http://www.scienceforpeople.com
Essays, reviews, and other opinion pieces presenting scientific and science policy topics without the jargon.

Science-as-Culture
http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/sci-cult.html
Internet mailing list. Site includes subscription tools and archives.

Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law
http://www.law.asu.edu/HomePages/Jones/seal/default.htm
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.

Summer School at Institute of Communication, Lund University.
http://www.icomm.lu.se/summerschool
June 5-18, 2004 - Sciences and Humanities in a Changing world. The school is based on three two-week courses by distinguished scholars.

TechNet: The Technology Network of the World Bank
http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/technet/
Designed to encourage understanding of, and promote the use of science, technology and information in development.

Technology and Culture
http://shot.press.jhu.edu/Publications/Technology_And_Culture_Main.htm
A scholarly journal dedicated to the historical study of technology in its relationships with society and culture.

The Canadian Science and Innovation Indicators Consortium (CSIIC)
http://www.csiic.ca/
Researches bibliometrics and other quantitative measures of scientific work for use in public and private decision making.

The Edge - The Third Culture
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/index.html
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.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity
http://www.uh.edu/engines/
Transcripts of a radio program exploring technology and culture.

The Masters of History
http://www.geocities.com/savitz_1999/masters.htm
A book about the impact of science and engineering on society.

The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology and Society
http://www.thenewatlantis.com
A quarterly journal devoted to science and technology issues and their relation to social and political affairs

The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
http://www.lsu.edu/ssss/
A scholarly association devoted to studying science, technology and society.

Voice of the Shuttle (VOS)
http://vos.ucsb.edu/index-netscape.asp
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.

W3C Technology & Society Domain
http://www.w3.org/TandS/
Concentrating on issues that arise from applications of Web technology, and devoting significant resources to international public policy issues.

WACRA Europe
http://www.wacra-europe.org
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.

What the Social Text Affair Does and Does Not Prove
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/noretta.html
Article by Alan Sokal.

Worldwide Virtual Network of Young Practitioners Working on Science and Society Issues
http://alba.jrc.it/science-society/
Aims to enhance the communication, discussion and collaboration between researchers and other groups of practitioners (e.g. NGOs, policy makers, media, etc.) in Science and Society.

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