December 29, 2007
Category: Culture
'I'm going to celebrate the new year when it's most convenient to me and, give or take 365 later, do it again.' - M.C. 2006 Many of us will spend the fleeting moments of 2007 toasting something that arguably rivals...
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Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 4:06 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 28, 2007
Category: Updates
Well folks, I'm headed to California for a couple weeks... Posting from me will be light, but you can bet Chris will have lots to share about Science Debate 2008 in the meantime. Happy New Year!...
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Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 11:14 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 26, 2007
Category: Politics and Science
Chris already listed several amazing new signatories who joined ScienceDebate2008 and now we can finally announce the most exciting news yet! NEW YORK - A Republican and a Democratic member of the United States Congress, who are each also scientists,...
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Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 11:40 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics and Science
I can't believe the names that have rolled in over the holidays, including a very large number of university presidents: Warren Baker, President, California Polytechnic State University Eugene Butcher, Professor of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine; Crafoord Prize in...
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Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 9:38 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Miscellaneous
Could it be that a higher order of some kind constructed a universe ascribing to specified geometrical axioms that result in early trajectories forward?
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Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 11:10 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 24, 2007
Category: Personal
from The Intersection Sheril, Chris, and Sparticus Maximus The Great...
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December 23, 2007
Category: Politics and Science
It's not like a lot of people are reading blogs right now...but still, I thought I'd get this up before I take the night train to Flagstaff, AZ, where I'm spending Christmas with my mom and sister. First of all,...
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Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 8:15 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Miscellaneous
As some of you will no doubt already have noticed, the main ScienceBlogs page now has up a cool feature that runs you through the top scienceblogging subjects of 2007. Sheril and I are proud to note that the Intersection...
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Category: Conservation
Last month, everyone was up in arms as Japan launched its fleet off Antarctica in the first major hunt of humpbacks since the 1960s. The move wasn't great for public relations, and would you know it... turns out all the...
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Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 10:56 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 21, 2007
Category: Politics and Science
Because we hope to forge a truly broad and bipartisan coalition to push for a presidential debate on science, you can imagine how heartened we were to add the following name: Calvin DeWitt President, Academy of Evangelical Scientists and Ethicists;...
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