November 30, 2007
Category: Culture
I often write about the power of music to move and motivate people. The arts have a monumental role in culture which is, of course, at the intersection of politics, science... life. As a musician and former radio jock, I...
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Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 1:08 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Hurricanes
Today is officially the last day of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season. Not that we can't have a storm after November 30...but it becomes less and less likely. And how do we summarize the year? Well, less active than...
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Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 10:40 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 29, 2007
Category: Culture
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the...
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Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 3:38 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming
Research... okay, but geoengineering continues to raise a heck of a lot of red flags for me. By no means do I deny what we're up against or disagree with my favorite blogger, but I'd like to emphasize that priorities...
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Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 12:06 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming
My latest Science Progress column just went online--I look at the issue of geoengineering, and reluctantly conclude that given our current predicament, the case for at least studying possible options makes a lot of sense. Research isn't the same as...
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Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 10:07 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 28, 2007
Category: Framing Science
So: I'm in D.C. right now. That's because Nisbet-Mooney just gave our last "framing science" talk of 2007--a lunch event yesterday at the National Academy of Sciences' Keck Center. This talk wasn't open to the public, so we didn't publicize...
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Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 12:40 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Hurricanes
Dark settles on Majher Char, a 3x2 km long island in the middle of the Ballashar River in the Bay of Bengal. Last week, this was the scene of death and utter destruction when Cyclone Sidr came ashore, carrying...
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Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 9:06 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 27, 2007
Category: Women in Science
We should never hide or apologize for who and what we are in order to fit a single construed world view.
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Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 10:34 AM • 41 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Culture
Next November 4, make an informed decision. There's no denying this is the kind of stuff the voting public remembers......
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November 26, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
In the past three months, I have done three separate events on university campuses that have involved, in some way, panel commentaries upon books. Two of the books were my own; one was Mike Tidwell's (see here and here). As...
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Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 1:30 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks