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Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally:

"Global Warming is not real because weather patterns have stabilized in the last 10 years!" Why statements like this need a little context.

Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment

Anthropogenic Climate Change Denial (Face Palm). Some science 101 on the matter.

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Saying hello to Carl Zimmer

Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally

Carl is currently in Vancouver, and he was gracious enough to come out for drinks with us last night. This was after a great talk he gave on the how scientists have been following the evolutionary tracks of the H1N1...

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Arithmetic saves the day: Solar cells still an option.

Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment

Realclimate.org has a great post today called "An Open Letter to Steven Levitt." In case, you haven't heard, this is the economist, and one of the noted authors of the Freakonomics, who recently published Superfreakonomics, a book that is fast...

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Celebrity culture versus, you know, actual important stuff (or #AIS)

Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally

Not specifically about science literacy, but more about just what inhabits a person's brain space at a given moment, and how that can lead to a sad degree of ignorance in world affairs. I was mulling over this, when watching...

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Does the name Dr. Krisana Kraisintu ring a bell? (If it doesn't, then it's a shame it doesn't)

Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or die

A review of Cocktail: A Play about the Life and HIV Drug Development Work of Dr. Krisana Kraisintu by Vince LiCata and Ping Chong Truth be told, I don't read plays very often, if at all. In fact, I'm ashamed...

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Back again (from Africa no less) - and apologies for the absence.

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

Molecular Biology, West Africa (in a Harper's Index sort of way)

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Manufactured Landscapes: A haunting and beautiful look at the terrain we humans create.

Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally

Exemplary photography of human crafted scenery.

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Han Solo and Chewbacca weigh in on their new hybrid Millenium Falcon

Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally

Seriously. As the title suggests - Han and Chewie wax philosophy over fuel efficiency.

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What is the Ecological Footprint of Disneyland?

Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally

Wherein the world can only sustain about 9600 magic kingdoms.

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Food these days...

Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally

Sad and scary in a pretty sort of way. Just a few images pulled courtesy of the Flickr community. (lyza) If you just sit back and absorb the sentiment of these pictures, it's a little overwhelming just how removed we...

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