September 14, 2011
With our oceans and coastal ecosystems, and the economies and jobs they support, facing constant and increasingly grave threats from a variety of sources, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators will meet next week to form a new Senate Oceans Caucus. The Caucus will work to increase awareness and find…
September 13, 2011
Probably not, but they are cagily announcing a rather unusual press conference that has a certain familiar ring to it.
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA will host a news briefing at 11 a.m. PDT, Thursday, Sept. 15, to announce a new discovery by the Kepler mission. The briefing will be held in the…
September 13, 2011
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
The CDC's fact sheet is here.
September 13, 2011
The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth sounds like a cool book, though I've not read it yet. From Publisher's Weekly:
Until about 1834, the word "scientist" didn't exist. According to naturalist Conniff (Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time), it was likely at a…
September 13, 2011
Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!
September 13, 2011
Before life existed on Earth, there was just matter, inorganic dead "stuff." How improbable is it that life arose? And -- could it use a different type of chemistry? Using an elegant definition of life (anything that can evolve), chemist Lee Cronin is exploring this question by attempting to create…
September 11, 2011
is actually over at Freethoughtblogs. Please have a look.
September 10, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's twin lunar Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 9:08 a.m. EDT (6:08 a.m. PDT) Saturday, Sept. 10, to study the moon in unprecedented detail.
GRAIL-A is scheduled to reach the moon on…
September 9, 2011
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September 9, 2011
This is important, please have a look:
Dear Colleagues,
Climate researchers are in need of immediate legal assistance to prevent their private correspondence from being exposed to Chris Horner and the American Tradition Institute who are using Freedom of Information (FOI) to harass researchers. (…
September 8, 2011
Why is it so hard to understand a commonplace thing like orgasms?
I think I know why science does not understand the female orgasm. It is because science excels when it breaks free of context, history, human complexities and anthropology, but when a topic requires one to grasp context, history,…
September 8, 2011
Today all we have for you is Ana's feed, and only the first half. We have both been very busy with distracting things like work and other writing projects and so on. There are interesting things going on at Fukushima and in the Nuclear Power industry in general, as you'll see soon. In the mean…
September 8, 2011
One final Back To School item. Do you think students should be required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in US Public Schools every day? Increasingly, this is being required. Here are a number of reasons to NOT allow this, and a suggestion as to what to do about it: Demand that the Pledge of…
September 8, 2011
Let's begin with Tropical Storm Lee. There is actually quite a bit left of this no-longer named low pressure system, and it is sitting over the northern part of the East Coast producing a fair amount of rain. "So what?" you say! Good question. The thing is, that a hurricane in the Atlantic by the…
September 7, 2011
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September 7, 2011
I like to pass books about science on to the teachers in my daughter's school for them to have in the classroom (or to pass on to the library, as they wish). Now that you've heard this idea, you will want to do it to!
Here's a few suggestions of recent titles that could be available used or…
September 7, 2011
And if you have your own favorites, please add links to them in the comments.
Below the fold to not crash your flash.
First, this tear jerker:
September 7, 2011
A few essays. You are not alone. These are previously posted items, just follow the links to read them in their entirety.
Teachers Under Fire!!!
It is very common, across the U.S., for science teachers to dread the "evolution" unit that they teach during life science class.
As they approach the…
September 7, 2011
This is the claim being made:
Oh, I can't believe she's never going camping again because she saw an alligator! Personally, I like running across this sort of animal.
I hope there is an actual scientific investigation of this. I'd love to know if this creature could possibly have wintered over…
September 7, 2011
Here are a few books that those in the education biz should have on hand. If you are a parent with a kid in school, consider giving a copy of one or more of these books to your school's life science teacher and a key administrator or two.
A classic reference, the number one book you should have…
September 6, 2011
A few suggestions for books you can use at home to enhance, prepare for or catch up with various topics.
Great Physics Book: Black Bodies and Quantum Cats by Jennifer Ouellette.
Why the Wind Blows: A History of Weather
Home Chemistry: A New Guide for Hobbyists and Home Schoolers
September 6, 2011
You all know about the latest dustups and new research related to climate change, including the resignation of the Editor-in-Chief of a major journal as well as some new papers about global warming. There has been so much activity over recent days that I thought a new link farm would be a good…
September 6, 2011
You have to tell your child's life science teacher (or, any science teacher for that matter) that your family does not support creationism, does not want to see anyone "teaching the controversy" and that you know that "Intelligent Design" is a form of creationism. I promise you, the creationist…
September 6, 2011
Two videos from the NCSE ...
September 6, 2011
The question of whether clouds are the cause of global warming has been settled:
No, they are not.
The question was raised in July in a paper by Spencer and Braswell, published in the Peer Reviewed Journal Remote Sensing called "On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from…
September 6, 2011
Was Michele Bachmann's campaign sabotaged as part of an insidious plot? Maybe.
Should 9/11 really be represented in a child's coloring book with racist overtones? I'm thinking not.
Has Fox News finally become an honest and reliable source? Ah ... well, no, apparently.
September 5, 2011
How come nobody told me about this!!!!
I eagerly await my copy of Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!.
And while we are on the topic, Behold The Power of Regex: Emacs Lisp: Writing a Date Time String Parsing Function
September 4, 2011
On the face of it, it is impossible. Cosmic rays vary over time, and climate varies over time, and the two variations do not correspond. Global temperature has been going up over the last century, in correspondence with increased of atmospheric CO2, and this makes sense because the physics says…
