Intersection:
There's a widespread consensus that we could, should, and must do a better job of talking to the general public. On this issue, the consensus is wrong.
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Posted on March 6, 2008 2:34 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Bush Administration has once again managed to reach new levels of self-parody. This time, the subject is stem cell research, and they've taken a position on funding new research that incorporates the classic Catch-22 problem. Sadly, though, the Catch-22 lacks anything that bears the faintest resemblance to humor when it's used to block funding for potentially lifesaving research.
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Posted on January 11, 2008 9:45 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Over the last couple of decades, a great deal of research has been done on the effect of global warming on coral reefs. The vast majority of that research has focused on the currently observed and potential future effects...
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Posted on January 8, 2008 3:56 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Chris Mooney's recently-published article in Seed magazine has stirred a bit of discussion about the role of the Presidential Science Advisor, and just who would be a good choice for that position. Of the two questions, the first is...
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Posted on January 7, 2008 9:19 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Apparently, Matt Nisbet didn't think that one poorly-reasoned critique of Gore's ability to communicate science was enough for the weekend, because he tossed out another a day later. You might recall that in his first critique, Nisbet claimed that...
Posted on October 15, 2007 8:34 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As you are undoubtedly aware, this year's Nobel Peace Prize is being split between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore, in recognition of "their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change,...
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Posted on October 12, 2007 12:20 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
One of the alleged facts that President Bush loves to point at when he's trying to justify his veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) expansion is that the new bill would have allowed New York to...
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Posted on October 8, 2007 11:24 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In "The Republican War on Science" Chris Mooney referred to the Newt Gingrich-led Congress' decision to eliminate the Office of Technology Assessment as "a stunning act of self-lobotomy." If anything, he was lowballing the effects. For those of you...
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Posted on September 17, 2007 9:26 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is a continuation of a post I wrote (and updated a couple of times) earlier today. Since the tsunami is no longer a possibility - it's an actual event - I thought a new title was probably a...
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Posted on September 12, 2007 1:32 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A very large, shallow earthquake occurred at 11:10 UTC today. The earthquake epicenter is located in the Indian Ocean, about 375 miles from Jakarta, Indonesia, and is currently estimated at magnitude 7.9. The magnitude of the earthquake and the...
Posted on September 12, 2007 7:57 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mike Dunford is a graduate student in the Department of Zoology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he studies evolution. He's also a contributer to The Pandas Thumb. As is the case with everyone else here, his opinions are his own, and do not necessarily represent those of any organization he is affiliated with. 
