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April 30, 2007
Category: Hurricanes
Well, it's April 30, which means that for most of the Southern Hemisphere, hurricane season just ended. It hasn't been a particularly busy year for any of the Southern Hemisphere cyclone regions except the Southwest Indian Ocean, which took...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 10:55 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 27, 2007
Category: Framing Science
Nisbet has reproduced it but I'll do so here as well. Note that the letter comes from a biologist and a theology professor at the University of Portland: Science 27 April 2007: Vol. 316. no. 5824, pp. 540 - 542...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 6:32 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 26, 2007
Category: Evolution
From his blog: Camp 3, which is perhaps not as well defined, promotes the inclusion of theistic elements in evolutionary biology, in some cases explicitly in other cases as a kind of "fill in the blank," in order to provide...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 8:49 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
I spent about 24 straight hours traveling yesterday, crossing the Pacific and such--so I've been a bit out of it. But what do I come back to? Fellow Sciencebloggers John Wilkins and Tim Lambert have both done posts--with lotsa...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 8:15 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 24, 2007
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
My new book, Storm World, will not be out for another two months yet; it hits in early July. However, the early reviews are coming in from outlets serving the literary and publishing industry such as Publishers Weekly and...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 10:46 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 22, 2007
Category: Updates
I've had a wonderful time in Australia; as will be shown in my forthcoming Seed column, the experience has also been very eye opening in a lot of ways. It's winding down, though: I do one last talk here...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 6:05 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 20, 2007
Category: Framing Science
Yesterday I gave a talk in Melbourne at the Bureau of Meteorology, sponsored by the Melbourne Centre of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. Although in my previous conference talk here I had already raised the subject of framing...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 7:25 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 15, 2007
Category: Framing Science
Once again, I can't keep up with all the latest reactions to Nisbet-Mooney. There are just too many of them (over 160 comments at PZ's blog alone; and even my own blog is pushing 40 right now). I'm in...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 6:17 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Updates
I looked out my window this morning in Melbourne--after sleeping off jet lag--and saw seven hot air balloons in the sky. You would never see something like that over a U.S. city. It was a pretty good introduction to...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 3:37 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Framing Science
It has begun--especially with this post from PZ. He is ticked at us for our Washington Post piece. Oddly, PZ goes through much of the article but not the specific response to him: There will always be a small...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 1:16 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 14, 2007
Category: Framing Science
Following the Science piece, there has been a great need for Nisbet and I to expand upon our arguments regarding "framing." Matt did so the other day on NPR, and now we have a joint piece in the latest Washington...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 4:20 PM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 13, 2007
Category: Framing Science
Matt Nisbet has just done a segment with NPR's "On the Media" about our "Framing Science" article in Science. At Matt's blog, he notes that this is just the first of many instances in which we'll be starting to...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 7:24 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 12, 2007
Category: Framing Science
There have been a lot of oddities when it comes to the reception of our Science piece. One is how many people can't even correctly spell Nisbet's name. Another is the seemingly dismissive attitude towards much communication research. Perhaps...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 7:48 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 11, 2007
Category: Framing Science
I am pleased to say that Science has made our much-discussed article available by author referral. So for those who haven't read it yet, now you can. Here's the trick: You've gotta go to Matt Nisbet's blog to do...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 6:38 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Updates
I didn't know there was a reporter in the audience. But the Salt Lake Tribune has a full length write-up of the talk I gave at the University of Utah law school on Monday. It nicely quotes the central punch-line...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 7:22 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 10, 2007
Category: Updates
I've had some great travel experiences over the past week--taking in the National Hurricane Conference; sleeping in my mom's FEMA trailer; getting to try out a new talk (with "framing" content) in Camarillo, CA, and Salt Lake City, UT;...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 12:54 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
