Earth:
There were quite a lot of events and actions in Belgrade for the Earth Day last week. I came in on that day so I did not have time to see anything. But I loved the balloon they placed in...
Posted on April 26, 2008 6:02 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Though, at some times and places in history, February 24th was considered to be the Leap Day. For the more science-oriented folks, Phil Plait explains why we have leap days....
Posted on February 29, 2008 10:53 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There is a lot of stuff one hears about food, sustainability, environment, etc., and it is sometimes hard to figure out what is true and what is not, what is based on science and what is emotion-based mythology. For instance,...
Posted on February 19, 2008 10:32 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The League of Conservation Voters has issued a comparison of all the Presidential candidates of both parties on the topic of conservation and global warming. Look at the Chart and watch the Video. Then decide....
Posted on December 19, 2007 12:10 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Indy has the entire issue devoted to the topic of Global Warming, with some excellent articles: 10 years after Kyoto: You're getting warmer by Bill McKibben 10 years after Kyoto: Winners and losers by Sena Christian James Hansen won't be...
Posted on December 8, 2007 10:38 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Posted on November 29, 2007 2:45 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Cyclone Sidr has hit Bangladesh. The number of casualties, though not as large as predicted, is still large and growing. More importantly, millions of people are displaced and have lost the sources of their livelihoods. The best way to help...
Posted on November 16, 2007 9:45 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The cyclone Sidr looks ominous and scary. It will make landfall tomorrow. More than ten million people live in the river delta of Bangladesh where Sidr is headed. Shelters have a capacity for about half a million. Others are, I...
Posted on November 14, 2007 11:23 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Since I was gone to two meetings and nobody else can walk the dog as regularly as I can, the dog spent the week at Grandma's in Raleigh. Today I went to pick her up (the dog, that is) which...
Posted on October 27, 2007 9:54 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What all the candidates are saying....
Posted on September 25, 2007 9:36 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
After Fran and Floyd, hurricanes that start with F make me quite nervous. And now Felix, in less than a day since it formed, went from Category 2 to Category 3 to Category 4 to Category 5. It is a...
Posted on September 3, 2007 1:26 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Naomi Oreskes, the author of the 2004 paper in Science about the scientific consensus on global warming, recently had her work attacked by regressive denialists (including on Senator I-hate-science-Inhofe's blog). Her full response is now available on Stranger Fruit. Go...
Posted on August 31, 2007 2:06 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Here is the time-table if you want to watch the eclipse in the Eastern time zone: As you can see, it is very late at night, and much of the good stuff is happening after dawn. Perhaps in other time...
Posted on August 27, 2007 1:52 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
People have been cooking in Belgrade, Serbia, for weeks now. Last time I am aware of that the temperature was this high was when I was in pre-school. Today's pictures:...
Posted on July 24, 2007 3:59 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Apparently, Great Britain became an island due to a big flood (not gradual erosion). Don't let the Old Earth Creationists hear about this......
Posted on July 19, 2007 12:20 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mindy discovered a cool series of videos on YouTube, done by a physics teacher. The first one is called The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See: Then, to respond to questions and comments, he added Patching Holes #1, Patching Holes...
Posted on July 18, 2007 8:12 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I had a great pleasure recently to be able to interview Senator - and now Democratic Presidential candidate - John Edwards for my blog. The interview was conducted by e-mail last week. As I am at work and unable to...
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Posted on July 9, 2007 8:59 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Unfortunately, I will still be out of town for this, but if you are in the area on July 12th, you should go to Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh (it is in Ridgewood Shopping Center, 3522 Wade Ave.) at 7pm...
Posted on July 8, 2007 10:04 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Today is a big day on Plos-Biology for the Oceanic Microbial Diversity Genomics. Last night they published not one, not two, but three big papers chockfull of data. Accompani\ying them are not one, not two, not three, not even four,...
Posted on March 14, 2007 9:42 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Global warming change is the topic of a symposium, free and open to the public, in NC State's Campus Cinema, located in Witherspoon Student Center, February 26-28, and featuring excellent speakers. Elizabeth Kolbert, author of FIELD NOTES FROM A CATASTROPHE,...
Posted on February 15, 2007 2:21 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Russ, correctly, points out that the new UN report on Climate Change says not a word about the impact global warming will have on ecosystems, plants and animals (including the human animal)....
Posted on February 3, 2007 3:43 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Global Warming threat may be even harsher than the latest UN report suggests, but the Wingnuts want to make sure we teach the kids quite the opposite. Yeesh!...
Posted on February 3, 2007 2:46 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Food From Cloned Animals Safe? FDA Says Yes, But Asks Suppliers To Hold Off For Now: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued three documents on the safety of animal cloning -- a draft risk assessment; a proposed...
Posted on January 1, 2007 12:59 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Go check out The Mill and Carrboro Commons. The Mill Editor did some digging and found that a lot of cool scientific research on climate is being done locally....
Posted on December 9, 2006 12:12 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Explained patiently, with pretty pictures....
Posted on December 7, 2006 4:34 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Amanda just reviewed Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma and also recently wrote a post on the same topic while under the influence of the book. I agree with her 100%, so go and read both posts. I have read...
Posted on December 7, 2006 1:55 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 8-14 is Earth Science Week. This year's theme is "Be a Citizen Scientist!" Wolverine Tom is blogging hard this week - see this, this, this and this for now. How about an Earth Science Blogroll for all of us...
Posted on October 10, 2006 11:30 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Go see a rock with a cool story to tell....
Posted on September 1, 2006 7:49 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
