Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally:
Category: Nature, as in parts, bits, molecular and stuff
Science Scout Twitter Feed I mentioned earlier, about being involved in a great student conference (you know the whole Chewbacca thing). Well, we're starting to roll out the videos online. Here is the first, and it's a great one...
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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
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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Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
Science Scout twitter feed So how come I've never seen this before? The infamous Kirk Cameron Banana YouTube clip? From what I can figure out, this is actually meant to be a serious attempt at describing creationist perfection. It's...
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