Science and (culture, politics, policy, media)
Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)
email: kevin {/at/} nosenada.org
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July 21, 2006
Category: Friday Politics
I caught on NPR yesterday Peter Overby talking about the dishing of Congressional pork. The issue was that a town in the district of Rep. Jerry Lewis (the House's King of Purse) hired a lobbyist to get Lewis to kick...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 1:08 PM • 3 Comments
Category: Congress • Friday Politics • Water
Two days ago I snuck a post out about the WRDA bill getting to the Senate floor calendar. (Today five posts that I wrote last night are coming out, then it's back to hibernation.) I warned you insiders to read...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 12:46 PM • 1 Comments
Category: Bare politics • Friday Politics • Science+White House
Strange juxtaposition in the Times yesterday on the stem cell stuff. Two pictures ran under the page A1 story on Bush's veto -- one of Harry Reid and a wheelchair-bound passenger for prop purposes (apologies to the actual person, but...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 12:39 PM • 3 Comments
Category: Sports+science
A few days ago the Times ran another aluminum bat in baseball story. The background is that every so often a youth baseball pitcher (sometimes even a college player) gets tagged by a batted ball and killed. When the batter...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 12:12 PM • 5 Comments
Category: Sports
I'm on vacation which means I actually have access to TV (we don't have one at home so the only time I get to watch TV is on the road and in sports bars). Being a mountain and road biker...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 12:04 PM • 3 Comments
July 15, 2006
Category: Annoucements • Bare politics • Blogs • Congress
i'm still away so two quick notes and then i'm going back underground 1- Check out Sean D's new atmospheric science blog, Head In A Cloud. Technical earth sciences blogs are far too few and far between so Sean's blog...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 4:52 PM • 0 Comments
July 3, 2006
Category: Annoucements
....I am audi-5. I'll be in deep seclusion for the next month, which means I'll only be on the net once every few days. I may sneak a post or two out here or there (they actually get the NY...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 1:54 PM • 1 Comments
Category: Climate change • Culture • Technology
I thought I was going to be able to let this one slide, but after yet another dining-out conversation about it today it seems it won't go away. I refer to the Science Times of this past Tuesday and William...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 12:37 AM • 4 Comments
Category: Culture • Geology • Totally random
But back to Roadside Geology. What book do customers who view the Roadside page eventually end up buying? At an astonishing 77% it's the Christian self-help book The Power of the Praying Wife. Huh???? Second, at 13%
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 12:16 AM • 3 Comments
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