Politics:
When I read pieces like this one (at McSweeney's), it makes me want to make the World's Fair the place to go to at ScienceBlogs when you want to catch up on unicorn stuff. Anyway, here's the first paragraph: The...
Posted on June 26, 2008 10:58 AM • 0 Comments •
So, there's been much argument lately in my neck of the woods, over the BC's new carbon tax. This is coming online in a few days (July 1st), and will be responsible (amongst many other things) for what has been...
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Posted on June 25, 2008 1:05 PM • 2 Comments •
Buy Gas Now. And get Ethyl for only 4 cents more per gallon. Hurry while supplies last.
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Posted on June 23, 2008 8:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Do you eat food? If so, this might be of interest to you.
Posted on June 4, 2008 1:25 PM • 0 Comments •
Albert Einstein kept it real.
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Posted on May 23, 2008 1:30 PM • 1 Comments •
"In the long run men hit only what they aim at." H.D. Thoreau, Walden This post's title is the poorly reasoned conclusion to a poorly reported and poorly conducted study. I couldn't tell if it was simply bad reporting at...
Posted on May 20, 2008 1:25 PM • 11 Comments •
Summarizing some points on local food, community supported agriculture (CSAs), and energy, here's a Youtube catch....
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Posted on May 18, 2008 9:15 AM • 4 Comments •
A conference in Toronto explores the prospects of forging a new and tenable epistemology.
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Posted on May 15, 2008 9:50 AM • 0 Comments •
Concerned they look "not so smart" without this new-fangled "Intelligent" modifier. (Or so this joke would have it.)
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Posted on May 9, 2008 11:00 AM • 1 Comments •
"Big claims. Not too much support. Mostly unconvincing."
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Posted on May 9, 2008 10:15 AM • 3 Comments •
New from McSweeneys: Because who *doesn't* want a good Borges joke?
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Posted on May 6, 2008 1:40 PM • 2 Comments •
Office of EPA administrator Stephen Johnson tells regional administrator to quit or be fired by June 1 after conflict with Dow Chemical.
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Posted on May 5, 2008 10:30 AM • 0 Comments •
Mountaintop Removal hits the front page, emphasizing direct connections to consumers and consumption in the process.
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Posted on April 24, 2008 9:00 AM • 4 Comments •
Strangely, this is about India's Pressure on Dow Chemical to Cleanup Bhopal
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Posted on April 7, 2008 12:00 PM • 0 Comments •
As much energy to run the farmer's market for a day as running a household for a year...but so?
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Posted on March 24, 2008 9:30 AM • 4 Comments •
19 February 2008 was historic: here is what it suggests about the future of alternative energy and our fossil fuel lifestyle
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Posted on February 21, 2008 9:00 AM • 9 Comments •
An update on environmentally and culturally senseless Mountaintop Coal Removal.
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Posted on February 10, 2008 1:20 PM • 2 Comments •
Nuclear power is so safe, it's frightening. Just don't plan ahead (or look downriver, as it were).
Posted on February 5, 2008 8:00 AM • 0 Comments •
A brief comment on the weather, and human inclinations, and eclipses.
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Posted on February 4, 2008 11:00 AM • 1 Comments •
Editorial commentary, in cartoon form: Buy More Stuff?
Posted on February 4, 2008 8:58 AM • 0 Comments •
Saying something's "obvious" indicates the absence of a logical argument, asserting truth by speaking loudly.
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Posted on January 22, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Consumers and producers of scientific knowledge unite! Maybe? A little? Could we?
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Posted on January 14, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Current grain-based ethanol production systems damage soil & water resources; only profitable with tax breaks and tariffs
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Posted on January 11, 2008 9:45 AM • 3 Comments •
Scientific controversy isn't just about
what is true, but
who determines what is true
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Posted on January 10, 2008 9:30 AM • 4 Comments •
There are two words that you can never apply to them: 'true' and 'false'.
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Posted on January 8, 2008 8:30 AM • 3 Comments •
PRESS CENTER | PRINTABLE BRACKETS | FINAL GAME: Darwin v. HIV This is how tournaments go. You end up with some of the classic games in the middle, you find a monster match-up in the Sweet Sixteen. And that's how...
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Posted on December 27, 2007 8:00 AM • 1 Comments •
"And each generation, full of itself,/ continues to think/ that it lives at the summit of history" -- so ends Affonso Romano de Sant' Anna's poem "Letter to the Dead" (as posted here last year). In the same spirit of...
Posted on December 21, 2007 10:40 AM • 0 Comments •
"Never has so little been asked of so many at such a critical moment." Michael Maniates, a professor of environmental science and political science at Alleghany College, contributed a compelling op-ed to the Washington Post recently, "Going Green? Easy Doesn't...
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Posted on December 10, 2007 9:00 AM • 9 Comments •
His granddaughter wants him to stop blowing the tops off mountains. No, not "ha ha" funny. But you can laugh.
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Posted on December 7, 2007 12:45 PM • 1 Comments •
Waterboarding. This is the topic for debate in our modern world. We go on and on about progress in civilization, yet we're talking about torture. Here are three recent views on the subject: This Modern World, The Onion, and Doonesbury....
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Posted on December 6, 2007 1:00 PM • 1 Comments •
"The artist has always had to contend with the hated critic. But whence comes...the science critic?"
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Posted on December 6, 2007 7:30 AM • 0 Comments •
On matters of research agenda-setting, policy making, and government in scientific medical research, circa 1977
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Posted on November 30, 2007 3:15 PM • 4 Comments •
This is maybe the only Halloween piece I've ever written. And since it is about two years old, the leaders have changed, although I suspect the bickering would be pretty much the same. Anyway, here it is reprinted for all...
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Posted on October 30, 2007 9:30 AM • 0 Comments •
Perhaps better titled, "Of these, I am frustrated":...
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Posted on October 24, 2007 7:59 AM • 1 Comments •
Industrial agriculture didn't 'save' anyone work, it only shifted us to other forms of food service...
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Posted on October 1, 2007 7:59 AM • 9 Comments •
"[I just want to] speak more freely," says anti-global warming enthusiast Patrick Michaels
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Posted on September 28, 2007 7:56 AM • 2 Comments •
Lately, I've been thinking a lot about good old 0.7%. This is the hallmark figure suggested by Pearson as a target for foreign aid to developing nations. In other words, the main idea is that wealthy nations do something nice...
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Posted on September 13, 2007 3:18 PM • 1 Comments •
Final part with Prof. Parthasarathy, on breast cancer research, social movements, and the academics of science policy
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Posted on September 12, 2007 8:32 AM • 2 Comments •
Technical systems are inextricably linked to--not distinct from--specific political, social, legal, ethical, and economic understandings...
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Posted on September 11, 2007 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Studying genetic testing for breast & ovarian cancer, and understanding public policy about it
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Posted on September 10, 2007 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
The role of sugar & candy & junk food industries in the crafting of the 2007 Bill
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Posted on September 7, 2007 8:02 AM • 1 Comments •
David Ng is Director of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory at the University of British Columbia - this is a just a fancier way of calling himself a science teacher. 
Benjamin Cohen is an Asst. Professor of Science, Tech., and Society at the University of Virginia. He studies the place of S & T in environmental history, policy, and ethics. He also writes other stuff. 
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