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Chris Mooney is a visiting associate in the Center for Collaborative History at Princeton University and the author of three books, The Republican War on Science, Storm World, and Unscientific America.
Sheril Kirshenbaum is a marine biologist and author at Duke University. Sometimes she's a classicist, radio jock, or congressional staffer. Never sure what's next, she continues to enjoy the journey. For more information, visit her website.
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Science Debate
December 31, 2008
Category: Global Warming
My last Science Progress column of the year answers the critics of John Holdren, who strike me as being pretty off base. In particular, I explain that Holdren is not some ideologue who wants to use climate policies to wreck...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 11:03 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
New Year 2009 faces a troubled economy, international unrest, and a changing planet, but also ushers in the new presidential administration with opportunities to set better policies that may yet alter the path we're on... What are readers' greatest...
Posted by the interSeCtion at 9:07 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 30, 2008
Category: Politics and Science
How will we create an environment where the public's understanding and appreciation of science policy will make scientists critical in the political process?
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 11:16 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Education
Troy and Gabriella may tell popular stories through music, but just imagine the epic that might unfold by training more high school students in molecular biology and bioinformatics....
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 8:14 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
December 29, 2008
Category: Women in Science
Science is after all, a very creative process so you'll stand out from the pack by being your-one-in-seven-billion-self.
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 10:36 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Media and Science
Sure I'm concerned over Bush's last stand against the environment, but this piece from the Environmental News Network is, simply well... you decide: In a few hundred thousand years, after all weather effects of 21st century climate change have disappeared...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 27, 2008
Category: Space
About 50,000 light-years across and 28 million light-years away, M104 is one of the largest galaxies at the southern edge of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster Dark shapes with bright edges winging their way through dusty NGC 6188 are tens...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 1:04 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 26, 2008
Category: Education
Round the outer ring are shown the 23 chromosomes of the human genome. The lines in blue, in the third ring, show internal rearrangements, in which a stretch of DNA has been moved from one site to another within...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 2:16 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 24, 2008
Category: Personal
from The Intersection Sheril and Chris...
Posted by the interSeCtion at 8:12 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 23, 2008
Category: Media and Science
Well here we go....dutifully linking Bora, Brian, Isis, Laden...but excuse me, hasn't this debate happened before? And has it resulted in anything other than sound and fury? Sheril and I have a long discussion of the science journalism/science communication problem...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 9:40 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
