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March 30, 2007
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
Peter Melchett writes in The Guardian (on-line) that the scientific evidence for organic food's healthier claims is clear and persuasive. (Melchett is "policy director of the Soil Association, a UK organic food and farming organisation.") But will that sway governments...
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Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
(from xkcd, via Scott)...
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Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or die
Philip Zimbardo, professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University and the guy who conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971, writes today in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the lessons and conduct of that pyschological test. The conclusion of...
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Recently, I read an interesting piece on something known as "Darwin's Delay." Briefly, this is a mystery which queried why it took 20 odd years for Darwin to take his theory of evolution from his own private musings in...
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Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
PRESS CENTER | UPDATED BRACKET KAPOW!!...
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March 29, 2007
Category: Mountaintop Coal Removal
Grist has been posting many excellent links, discussions, and interviews about Mountaintop Coal Removal in the Appalachians. It's been a while since we added to our MTR posts (one, two, three, four), so allow me to do so now. photo...
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Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Article about rejected scientific articles can't get published!
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March 28, 2007
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
PRESS CENTER | UPDATED BRACKET GAMES TO BE PLAYED NEXT WEEK (April 2nd to 6th, 2007)...
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Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
How do horticulturists know when the cherry blossoms will bloom? An educated guess.
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March 27, 2007
Category: About writing generally
Another writing contest I'm affiliated with. And to reiterate, pretty much anything goes as long as it fits (even remotely) in the global issues genre. Plus (plus), there's a category for non-UBC folk, and the insider info is that we...
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