Official Comment Count: 1,032,477
Chris Mooney is a freelance writer and the author of two books, The Republican War on Science and Storm World.
For more information see his bio, events, articles, or visit him on Wikipedia and YouTube.
Sheril Kirshenbaum is a marine biologist at Duke University. Sometimes she's a classicist, radio jock, or congressional staffer. Never sure what's next, she continues to enjoy the journey...
Chris & Sheril have a sound track and are currently working on ScienceDebate2008, which they just described in:
Website/Excerpt/WPost/LAT/BoGlo
Salon/Nature/C-SPAN/Sci-Fri/
Discovery Ch./Bloggingheads
Daily Show/Fresh Air/Sci-Fri
website/excerpt
Banner Credit: Andrew Binder
Stay abreast of your favorite bloggers' latest and greatest via e-mail, via a daily digest.
June 27, 2008
Category: Education
This week I've composed my first column at Science Progress called 'Plight of the Postdoc: Is modern American science strangling its young talents in the cradle?' The piece explores some illuminationg--and troubling--figures about the arduous road ahead for many...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 10:06 AM • 11 Comments
June 26, 2008
Category: Women in Science
'I wanted to blaze a trail as a woman in math--once I decided I probably couldn't be a baseball player.' - Moon Duchin A pioneer in mathematics, Moon hopes to do interdisciplinary teaching and research incorporating math and the...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 12:02 PM • 2 Comments
June 25, 2008
Category:
You can read it here. It starts like this: It was one of the largest public demonstrations in US history. On June 12, 1982, an estimated 750,000 protesters thronged Central Park in New York City, chanting "No nukes!" and bearing...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 11:11 AM • 1 Comments
Category: Conservation
Well I'm impressed... It's called EVO or www.evo.com. The goal is simple: To increase transparency in the green market, decrease green washing, and encourage corporate responsibility. In response to this increasing demand for product transparency, EVO spent several years developing...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 8:56 AM • 0 Comments
June 24, 2008
Category: Culture
Real tribe. Not really lost. Turns out, the photos were a hoax to call attention to the dangers of the logging industry. The disclosures have been made by the man behind the pictures, José Carlos Meirelles, 61, one of the...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 8:02 AM • 4 Comments
June 23, 2008
Category: Global Warming
The latest issue of Wired is now on newsstands, though not yet online. In it, I have a lengthy feature story about the scientific mainstreaming of geoengineering, which has occurred because of several trends: 1. Global warming seems to be...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 12:59 PM • 8 Comments
Category: Media and Science
Meet Vanessa Woods... internationally published author, journalist, and [full disclosure] among my most interesting friends. I've just finished her latest book 'It's Every Monkey For Themselves: A true story of love sex and lies in the jungle' and cannot recommend...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 9:46 AM • 0 Comments
June 22, 2008
Category: Culture
The animals are difficult to see and the density of the populations of grass eaters is very low right now... it is the dry season. ~ Nicolas Devos, Biologist and Wildlife Photographer My favorite wildlife photographer, Nicolas Devos, is back...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 11:10 AM • 1 Comments
June 20, 2008
Category: Weather
NOAA's Conrad Lautenbacher describes it as 'science without borders': Scientists around the world are converging data on health, weather, behavior, and disasters to anticipate illness and prepare for pandemics. It's called the Global Earth Observation System of Systems, recognizing that...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 9:10 AM • 1 Comments
June 19, 2008
Category: Framing Science
Over the past year, I've done well over two dozen talks, with Matthew Nisbet, about science communication. And now we're taking it to the next level. Next week at CalTech, we're unveiling a two-part affair: Our lecture (entitled "Speaking Science...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 10:20 AM • 1 Comments
June 18, 2008
Category: Politics and Science
My latest Science Progress column is up: It presents some ideas for improving the relationship between science and Congress other than the most obvious one--restoring the Office of Technology Assessment. The piece starts out like this: First the good news:...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 1:35 PM • 4 Comments
Category: Conservation
Remember those disgusting vast areas of the ocean depleted of oxygen and devoid of fish, shrimp, and marine life? They're getting worse....
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 10:02 AM • 4 Comments
June 17, 2008
Category: Hurricanes
...we learn that New Orleans still can't necessarily withstand a strong Category 2. In other words, three years after Katrina, we still don't have the protections we were supposed to have before the storm hit. Gotta love the Corps, and...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 11:23 AM • 4 Comments
Category: Global Warming
Craig Venter is out to create a bacterium that uses CO2 to create fuel. Success could change everything...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 9:28 AM • 21 Comments
June 16, 2008
Category: Media and Science
A 14-day mission to the International Space Station ended when Discovery touched down Saturday morning in Cape Canaveral, Florida. So what were seven astronauts doing up there for two weeks, 217 orbits, and 5.7 million miles? Details are now up...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 9:05 AM • 0 Comments
June 13, 2008
Category: at the interSeCtion
I have probably been remiss in not doing this post sooner. You may have noticed that Sheril and I are not blogging with our regular frequency these days. There's a reason: We are, as we've announced previously, working on our...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 8:56 AM • 1 Comments
YES! Send me a free issue of Seed.
If I like what I see, I'll receive 5 more issues (6 in all) for just $14.95. That's 50% off the cover price! If I'm not completely satisfied, I'll simply write "cancel" on the invoice and owe nothing. The free issue is mine to keep.
(Non-U.S. subscribers, click here.)
