March 8, 2012
(or maybe not)
March 8, 2012
Quite possibly Pete Sinclair's best and most important videos yet.
Click here to get more background from Peter Sinclair's site.
The post refers to this book: The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
March 8, 2012
Tonight, in Minneapolis; bring your ideas and some money and we'll make things happen! I've already put my One Good Shirt in the laundry and hope to have it dry in time. See you there?
Key women leaders celebrate Sharon Sund on International Women's Day
To celebrate International Women's Day, a…
March 7, 2012
Have you see KONY 2012? You'll need a spare half hour. When you have it, click here.
This podcast is out: "A Universe From Nothing" Lawrence Krauss on Atheists Talk #157, Sunday, March 4th, 2012
Dr. Lawrence Krauss is a leader in the fields of theoretical physics, science advocacy in public…
March 7, 2012
Skeptically Speaking #155
This week, we're looking into what happens in our brains when we're experiencing some of the most powerful feelings we feel. We'll spend the hour with science writer Kayt Sukel, to talk about her book Dirty Minds: How Our Brains Influence Love, Sex, and Relationships. From…
March 7, 2012
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft orbiting the moon officially have begun their science collection phase. During the next 84 days, scientists will obtain a high-resolution map of the lunar gravitational field to learn about the moon's internal…
March 7, 2012
In particular, what do you want to ask them pertaining to science? For instance, the following questions have recently been proposed:
What organization(s) or individual(s) is/are your primary source(s) for scientific information?
With the overwhelming body of evidence for both evolution and…
March 7, 2012
A small non-profit concerned with climate change is seking a "Climate Wiki Intern" which sounds very interesting. Knowing that many of my readers would be very good at this, It thought it was worth a blog post to point you in this direction:
Climate Wiki Intern
Posted by: The Heartland Institute…
March 7, 2012
Climate scientist Michael Mann's private e-mails and research notes will remain private, thanks to a ruling by the Virginia Supreme Court. "Virginia's highest court has ruled that Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli cannot compel the University of Virginia to turn over records dealing with the work of…
March 6, 2012
From the NCSE:
John Freshwater's legal challenge to the decision to terminate his employment as a middle school science teacher in Mount Vernon, Ohio, was defeated again, on March 5, 2012, when Ohio's Fifth District Court of Appeals upheld (PDF) a lower court's rejection of his challenge. It is…
March 6, 2012
The Carnival of Evolution is HERE at Splendour Awaits.
Go look at it, click on the entries, and tweet and facebook and G+ them. Unless you are some kind of damn creationist or something.
You've never seen a web carnival like this one before, I guarantee. Just go look.
March 6, 2012
No, not THAT kind of Darwin Award. The other one .. the "Friend of Darwin" award:
Master Educator, Young Activist, Honored By NCSE
It's an age-old story--the master and the newcomer. The expert who has devoted decades to keeping students on the right path. And the new kid who throws himself into…
March 6, 2012
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Also, see this release from the NCSE
March 6, 2012
Wind power is like Ginger Rogers. You know what I mean. It isn't judged by the same standards as other kinds of electricity generation.
Click here to visit an interactive guide to wind power in Minnesota.
I'm speaking specifically of the reliability of, or variation in, wind over time. Many…
March 6, 2012
Almost exactly one year ago, a very large double strength tsunami struck the Pacific Coast of Japan and washed a huge amount of stuff out into the sea. The oceanic born debris of terrestrial origin looked in places like this:
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Subsequently attempts were made to model the movement of the…
March 6, 2012
How big is a medium size elephant again?
March 6, 2012
This is something that started last midweek, but that travels, a cold, and intermittent internet connectivity conspired to distract me from until now. Jerry Coyne was writing about human "race" and in so doing may have made a number of statements that some people disagreed with, and one of those…
March 4, 2012
That is the new name of the proposed NASA mission to mars to Explore the Interior using Seismic Investigations.
"We chose the name InSight because we would literally peer into the interior of Mars to map out its structure," said JPL's Bruce Banerdt, the principal investigator. "With our…
March 3, 2012
Send these young women into space!
March 1, 2012
With elements inside.
This is important if you need to get your dog's ears to lie flat.
February 29, 2012
So, it turns out that Heartland was behind the Heartland leak after all.
The evidence seems to suggest that Heartland's Joe Bast wrote a memo, then he and/or Heartland-symp blogger Steven Mosher sent it secretly to Peter Gleick. Peter Gleick then obtained additional material from Heartland, which…
February 29, 2012
Davy Jones suffered a heart attack and died, in Florida, at 66 years of age.
Davy Jones, the lead singer of the 1960s group The Monkees, died of a massive heart attack Wednesday in Florida, his spokeswoman said. He was 66.
His publicist, Helen Kensick, confirmed that he died in Indiantown, where he…
