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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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required reading

  The Contested Plains
  On Killing
  The Wisdom of Crowds
  The Tipping Point
  On Combat
  The Botany of Desire
  Freakanomics
  Midnight's Children

the usual suspects

(listed in semi-random order)

  prometheus (sci. pol.)
  Boulder Coffee
  john fleck (ideas)
  brian schmidt (ideas)
  andrew alden (geology)
  james annan (climate)
  realclimate (climate)
  dan collins (geo-)
  pielke sr. (climate)
  sylvia tognetti (sci. pol.)
  andrew dessler (climate)
  bob park (physics/sci pol)
  chris rowan (geology)
  charles magee (geo-)
  wg/co (geology)
  yami mcmoots (geology)
  sean davis (clouds)
  reason: hit and run (politics)
  point380 climate consulting
  colorado pols (CO politics)
  colo. confidential (CO politics)

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Science education:

The inconvenient story that won't die

One thing I don't do in blogging is pick on one person and keep harping harping harping endlessly on the poor dead horse(man). (Even when they deserve it, like Paul Epstein.) So this will be the last Laurie David/NSTA post,...

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Posted on December 4, 2006 12:30 PM • 1 Comments

Laurie David just looks worse and worse by the minute

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 on November 30, 2006 5:15 PM • 8 Comments

What? Laurie David got it wrong? No.....

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...

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Posted on November 29, 2006 5:42 PM • 10 Comments

Today's jaunt in nerdistan: Caesar's breathing

Ok, today's date-takeoff-nerdfest is much more interesting than yesterday's. Apparently since the last time I took a real chemistry class in 1994, Chem Profs of America have wised up and figured out how to keep the nerds from sleeping in...

Posted on March 15, 2006 12:47 PM • 0 Comments

Nerds: put down the bop gun and step away from March fourteenth

This (and this and this and this) is just unacceptably nerdy. No wonder people distrust scientists. I'd distrust anybody who worships a constant, too. [UPDATE: even the MIT homepage has gotten in on it.]...

Posted on March 14, 2006 11:08 AM • 7 Comments • 1 TrackBacks

Words of wisdom for anti-ID educators: lessons from earthquake prediction history

One of the aspects to the evolution vs. ID debate I took most notice of was the boycott of Kansas School Board proceedings by scientists holding mainstream opinions on evolution science. The boycott was much debated throughout the blog'o'planet before...

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Posted on March 6, 2006 7:44 PM • 12 Comments