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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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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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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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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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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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Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Molecular Biology, West Africa (in a Harper's Index sort of way)
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Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
Exemplary photography of human crafted scenery.
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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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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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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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