Jeremy Bruno is a tech writer who blogs about ecology, evolution, conservation and culture at The Voltage Gate. Visit the old blog.
April 29, 2008
Category: Philosophy
At Page 3.14, our lovely and gracious Overlords have posted a great new reader's poll encouraging folks to choose their favorite pro-science movie as a sort of response to the anti-science of Expelled. There's one problem, as one of the...
Posted by Jeremy Bruno at 1:30 PM • 32 Comments •
Category: Ecology
As if coral in the world didn't have enough trouble, increased storm activity/strength is interrupting the reproductive/colonization process in southern Belize: The team measured the size of more than 520 non-branching corals in two major coral reef areas in southern...
Posted by Jeremy Bruno at 1:15 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Ecology
A walk-through of a recent PLoS paper that models food webs from the remains in the Burgess and Chengjiang Shales.
Posted by Jeremy Bruno at 11:50 AM • 0 Comments •
April 25, 2008
Category: Conservation
A bit of the basics of acid mine drainage remediation techniques.
Posted by Jeremy Bruno at 1:25 PM • 1 Comments •
April 24, 2008
Category: Animals
Ed has a great review of a recent paper in Nature presenting new research that describes just how extensive the damage done by the mountain pine beetle in British Columbia. The culprit of the outbreak is most likely climate change...
Posted by Jeremy Bruno at 11:15 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Politics
That was the posted price of premium gas in downtown Atlanta this morning....
Posted by Jeremy Bruno at 9:45 AM • 3 Comments •
April 22, 2008
Category: Environment
Have a few laughs with me if you would for the love of Earth Day: From "Desperado" at Chron.commons: In recognition of Earth Day, there is an excellent article in the BBC News today which reveals the real agenda behind...
Posted by Jeremy Bruno at 11:00 AM • 2 Comments •
April 21, 2008
Category: Animals
A comparison of carbon/oxygen isotope ratios from the tooth enamel of two early proboscideans, Moeritherium and Barytherium to other animals of the same era (circa 37 mya) revealed to researchers the possibility of a ancient, semi-aquatic animal, linking the speculated...
Posted by Jeremy Bruno at 7:00 PM • 2 Comments •
April 18, 2008
Category: Ethics
I was going to write a bit about Antisemitism and evolution, but I see that Expelled Exposed, sponsored by the NCSE has already covered the bases. I'd like to underline, however, the importance of evolution as a biological concept....
Posted by Jeremy Bruno at 12:10 PM • 5 Comments •
April 17, 2008
Category: Religion
Expelled is opening up tomorrow and while they seem to be avoiding most cities in the Northeast with showings, Atlanta and the surrounding area will be, of course, a hotbed of ID back-patting and finger wagging. The film opens up...
Posted by Jeremy Bruno at 2:30 PM • 3 Comments •
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