"So Long, Mom. I'm off to drop the bomb."
Category: Nuclear issues
For those of you who missed it, the Pentagon resumed above ground nuclear testing--sort of....
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April 27, 2006
Category: Nuclear issues
For those of you who missed it, the Pentagon resumed above ground nuclear testing--sort of....
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Category: Things We Like
You may have seen the rather exciting NY Times article this morning: "Judge Embeds a Puzzle in 'Da Vinci Code' Ruling." Apparently, Judge Peter Smith stuck 40 bold/italic letters into his ruling on a suit against Dan Brown (Brown won)....
Posted by Maggie Wittlin at 10:54 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 25, 2006
Category: ScienceBlogs
'The web's largest conversation about science' seems a strange place to find contributions to a celebration of poetry, but maybe it's not. Scientists and poets are alike in being keen observers of the world. Perception and description are the poet's, and the scientist's, stock in trade.
Posted by Book Club at 2:24 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 24, 2006
Category: Energy
...reads the headline of this article from the The Times of London. Pump prices have risen by one third over the past year and in some parts of the US have topped $3 (£1.68) a gallon. Among the ultra-rich of...
Posted by Christopher Mims at 6:17 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 21, 2006
Category: Environment
When I hear "glacier" I think of words like "fjord" and "Greenland." It's easy to forget that there are some not so far away from us, rapidly receding like most of their brethren. Ex seed staffer done good Ted...
Posted by Christopher Mims at 7:21 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A while back, I wrote what some might call a fairly provocative article on the promiscuity of famous physicists entitled Getting Physical. Besides getting picked up by a porn site or two and this possibly NSFW link (So what if...
Posted by Joshua Roebke at 2:33 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
So, yesterday, politics trumped science yet again. The FDA rejected medical marijuana, again. I'm sure the FDA's decision to say so on April 20th is entirely coincidental. The Times has an excellent summary, and you can read the FDA's original...
Posted by Lee Billings at 2:13 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Scientists
Here's a question for all the ScienceBloggers in the house: Which scientist (in your field or beyond) has been most seriously shafted? This could be taken two ways: Who deserves to be more recognized, revered and renowned today than he...
Posted by Maggie Wittlin at 12:08 PM • 4 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Blogs
You know what they say about great minds. In the April 14 issue of Science Magazine, two environmental scientists opine that scientists can, and must, become active bloggers and readers of blogs, for two main reasons. First, hard-blogging scientists will...
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Category: Environment
On the lighter side, not everyone is sad that polar bears might be going away. Seed actually located one of these individuals and asked what he thinks about drowning polar bears. His reaction is below the fold....
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