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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.)
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November 30, 2006
Category: Journalism • Science education
My original post on Laurie David's WaPo op-ed is here. A reader just added a comment that links to the Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers' blog (not a daily read for me, but hey, I have to pick the 2...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 5:15 PM • 8 Comments
November 29, 2006
Category: Journalism • Science education
You might have seen a few other SBers pick up Laurie David's WaPo op-ed from last Saturday. You might have even seen the topic appear in the SB Buzz. And by now you might have seen the NSTA response and/or...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 5:42 PM • 10 Comments
Category: Culture
You may have heard of the case in Atlanta last week of a woman in her 80's shot by police. They were raiding her house on a no-knock drug warrant, she apparently didn't realize it was the cops and shot...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 1:44 PM • 3 Comments
November 28, 2006
Category: Weather
Do we reserve the "extreme" label for weather that is damaging? Here's what happened the other day: the forecast for the day was mid-60's. (Sorry for those of you in the rest of the world, but I'm claiming superpower rights...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 4:46 PM • 8 Comments
November 21, 2006
Category: Congress • Natural hazards/disasters
I have a post up on Prometheus about a new letter from Lieberman and Collins (RM and Chair of Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs) to DHS head Mike Chertoff on not being ready for the next catastrophe....
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 3:13 PM • 0 Comments
November 20, 2006
Category: Energy
Thursday night saw the inaugural Energy and Environmental Security Initiative lecture at the University of Colorado School of Law. The lecture was given by Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, an early undeclared candidate for the '08 Democratic nomination for President. It...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 5:28 PM • 7 Comments
Category: Bare politics • Climate change • Congress
Seen first on Mr. Fleck's blog. Senator John Warner (R-VA) is challenging Sen. Inhofe (R-OK) for the Ranking Member spot on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee when the 110th Congress convenes in January. But Mr. Inhofe is not...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 1:56 PM • 5 Comments
Category: Bare politics • Congress • Culture
Charlie Rangel is the incoming chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, which is the one of the most important committees in the House (you'll read some articles saying that it is the most important, but it competes for...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 1:05 PM • 1 Comments
November 16, 2006
Myles Brand is the prez of the NCAA. That's the National Collegiate Athletics Association. What does the NCAA do? It represents the interests of universities in promoting college sports. Does it also represent the interests of students and academia in...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 2:47 PM • 8 Comments
November 15, 2006
Category: Climate change • Science politics • Science+Congress
Wasn't it just yesterday that I wrote this post? Via Mr. Fleck, hot off the presses, a release from Senator Boxer's office: Boxer, Bingaman and Lieberman Ask President to Commit to Working with Congress to Fight Global Warming Wednesday, November...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 5:05 PM • 4 Comments
November 14, 2006
Category: Climate change • Congress • Science+Congress
For science policy, the biggest issue that Congress will deal with for the next year to year and a half is climate change. There will be other issues (stem cells and the ESA might come up), but climate change is...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 11:00 AM • 8 Comments
November 13, 2006
Category: Bare politics
Karl Rove is clearly delusional and getting more so. His interview to NPR's Robert Siegel on October 24th could have been dismissed as Rove trying to give encouragement to his base and discouragement to NPR's lib listeners. That was the...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 12:12 PM • 0 Comments
November 10, 2006
Category: NASA/space • Weather
Some incredible pictures are coming out of NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn. Cassini has photographed a monster storm at Saturn's south pole with a central eye structure and winds of 350 mph. Apparently this has never been detected on any...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 2:14 PM • 4 Comments
November 9, 2006
Category: Bare politics
If they want to win the POTUS seat in 2008, the Democrats need to realize how the results of 2004 and 2006 reflect on each other. The simple lesson is this: the right kind of Democrat can do very well...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 4:13 PM • 11 Comments
Category: Natural hazards/disasters • Weather
If we all left this planet tomorrow, how long would it take nature to clean all traces of our presence? Two years? Ten? Ok, maybe a bit longer, but when you see photos like this you realize that in geologic...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 1:52 PM • 9 Comments
November 8, 2006
Category: Congress • Energy • Science+Congress
In the past couple of days I mentioned Rep. Richard Pombo a couple of times as my race to watch (because my local House seat is safely held by the great Mark Udall). Pombo held the 11th California District seat...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 8:12 AM • 3 Comments
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