Chris Mooney is a freelance writer and the author of two books, The Republican War on Science and Storm World.
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Sheril Kirshenbaum is a marine biologist at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke. Sometimes she's a classicist, radio jock, or congressional staffer. Never sure what's next, she continues to enjoy the journey...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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......
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 8:48 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 1:30 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Marine Science
Earlier this month, 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel poured into San Francisco Bay when the cargo ship Cosco Busan hit the Bay Bridge. What I want to know is--since the actual amount of oil released in the Bay was relatively...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 8:26 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 22, 2007
Category: Personal
Like most of our readers, we're off on vacation over Thanksgiving - Chris to Wisconsin, Sheril to New York - and posting will be very light til we return. We wish everyone a warm and happy holiday!...
Posted by the interSeCtion at 10:04 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 21, 2007
Category: Conservation
On the bookshelf of bad ideas, this one would be an epic: Developers Plan Massive Water Park in Arizona Desert Unfortunately, this seemingly absurd story is moving toward full blown project. My post on our freshwater crisis is now...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 11:22 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
It is important to remember--as I note in my latest Daily Green item--that Cyclone Sidr isn't the first staggering storm in the North Indian Ocean basin this year. Indeed, you could argue that 2007 has been the worst year on...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 8:45 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 20, 2007
Category: Conservation
A Japanese fleet has instructions to kill 50 humpbacks - and 1,000 whales total - under the shroud of 'scientific whaling'. Why should we care? Well it's estimated that there are about 10,000 humpbacks coursing about the planet now... low...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 1:58 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Hurricanes
From Baptist Press: DHAKA, Bangladesh (BP)--In the hours before Cyclone Sidr reached the coastal areas of Bangladesh, Southern Baptists and other Christians began praying -- aware that the Category 4 storm potentially could usher hundreds of thousands into an eternity...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 11:26 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
