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Science Blogging Survey

There is a new online survey up, designed by some of my SciBlings, about the background and online habits of science bloggers and science blog readers (not just scienceblogs.com, but all science blogs). Please take a minute to respond: This survey attempts to access the opinions of bloggers, blog-readers, and non-blog folk in regards to the impact of blogs on the outside world. The authors of the survey are completing an academic manuscript on the impact of science blogging and this survey will provide invaluable data to answer the following questions: Who reads or writes blogs? What are the…

Two Years of Blogging

In early October two years ago, we had a party. During that evening, a journalist friend helped my wife set up a (pseudonymous, s3kr1t) blog on Blogspot which persists to this day. I didn't catch on immediately. I'd been a BBS aficionado since the late 80s, regularly spending an hour or two a day conversing on-line. But after two months of reading my wife's blog, I started to feel that maybe blogging might be something for me too. After all, I was already writing on-line anyway, but for a small audience of longtime BBS friends who didn't necessarily share my obsessions. Also, the BBS format…

POTW Returns

If that last post did not satisfy your need for brain food, then let me mention that as of today the Problem of the Week returns. This semester's theme: Fun With Arithmetic! What's that? You don't like arithmetic? Well, let's see if you're still saying that at the end of the term. In general I try to choose problems that are accessible even to people in lower level classes. I go for things with a brainteaser quality to them, as opposed to problems that require knowledge of calculus or something higher. Also, I'm perfectly aware that solutions to just about any brainteaser are readily…

A brief message from our founder

Dear Reader, We launched Seed and ScienceBlogs because we believe that science can change the world and science literacy is how we get there. In the pages of our magazine we've tried to capture the ideas and issues fueling this cultural shift. Online we've aimed to foster a lively and spirited conversation about where it's all heading. Now, we invite you to share with us directly your perspective on the state of science, and your opinion on how we can improve our own efforts to raise science literacy. The survey should take about 20 minutes to complete. As a special "thank you" for…

The Hormone That Helps You Read Minds

We've long accepted that hormones can make you amorous, aggressive, or erratic. But lately neuroscience has been abuzz with evidence that the hormone oxytocin -- which also acts as a neuromodulator -- can enhance at least one cognitive power: the ability to understand what others are thinking. In this week's Mind Matters (the online blog seminar on mind and brain I edit for Scientific American), Jennifer Bartz and Eric Hollander, two leading researchers in this area, write a review commentary describing a recent paper on oxytocin and "theory of mind" and describe how oxytocin seems to…

From the crazy part of Minnesota

Minnesota State Representative Tom Hackbarth is a Republican. How can you tell? By his deranged behavior. A security guard at a St. Paul Planned Parenthood clinic called the cops last week after he spotted a Republican state lawmaker with a loaded gun in the parking lot. But the pol says he was only "checking on" his online girlfriend, who he thought may be on a date with another man -- a claim police have not been able to corroborate because the man did not have a phone number or address for the woman. Because that's how married (but putatively in the midst of a divorce) Republicans look…

Monday brainteaser.

This is our third teaching day of the semester (which started last Thursday), so of course, WebCT's servers decided that it would be a good time to freak out. (The official description: ... experiencing network latency within our VA2 data center that may be affecting your Blackboard environment. This may result in increased latency and/or packet loss when trying to access your hosted Blackboard system. But you can't tell me that this doesn't amount to the servers freaking out, especially as they are still "working with our Infrastructure team to determine the cause and to work towards a…

Zombie Lurch

Last Sunday, about a hundred zombies lurched through downtown Sydney. In an interesting coincidence some zombie facts have lurched through a column by Ruth Lea: And, interestingly, global average air temperatures, which are regarded as more reliable by climate scientists, have not changed over the past 20 to 30 years. Oh look, it's the satellites don't show warming zombie. Dead for quite a while now, still staggering around in global warming skeptic writings. And indeed it is, as there seems to be little scientific agreement that mankind's fossil-fuel burning is the major reason for…

Meet Bill

Meet Bill, He was born prosopagnosic and he has an online "book" all about his condition. I haven't had a chance to read much of it but it seems pretty interesting. I was born with a condition that makes it difficult for me to recognize faces. There is a small part of the brain that is dedicated to that job, and though it is small, when it comes to recognizing faces, it is very very good. In me, that part doesn't work, making me blind to all but the most familiar of faces. To help you understand this, let me compare it to two conditions you are probably more familiar with. People who are "…

At times like this I wish I had TV

Many of the details of the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case are common knowledge among science bloggers and online communities concerned with evolution, but I have to wonder how many people really know about the background of the case? Fortunately, PBS will be airing a new documentary about the important case called "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" on November 13 (next Tuesday). PBS has issued a press release about the upcoming show and has a whole website full of resources related to the show, but I think PZ has some even more interesting news. In a review in…

ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Glendon Mellow

The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January. Today, I asked Glendon Mellow of the The Flying Trilobite, to answer a few questions. Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Who are you? What is your (scientific) background? I'm yet another Canadian atheist artist-illustrator recovering goth-punk who blogs about incorrectly…

#scio12 Reset

Last week, I attended the Science Online 2012 Un-Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. You've probably heard of it. This is a fairly new conference, having run for only the last few years, and was masterfully run and organized by Bora Zivkovic, Anton Zuiker and Karyn Traphagen. Most of the attendees are science journalists, writers, bloggers, and/or actual scientists. The "formal" sessions are, or at least attempt to be, topically-focused group discussions led by one or two individuals. The topics covered at this conference vary from year to year, but generally deal with science…

Tell 'em it ain't so Bora!!!

By now most of you have read Online Journalism Review, which deigns to character moi as: ...And there are several blogs, such as Afarensis and Gene Expression, that tend to stay away from cultural and political commentary altogether. Well, Mr. Science and Politics might have something to say about that! To be fair, this is an issue of sampling bias...I haven't posted too much on politics here on this weblog, so if you sampled on any given day one might surmise that this wasn't a particularly political blog. And I agree it isn't, at least explicitly, though we all have political opinions…

Am I evil?

Sometimes I get into an online discussion with someone on another blog, and the person will assert a point, without any quantitative or qualitative supporting data. My normal tack is to demand that they offer some evidence to support their assertion, which usually results in irritation and annoyance (e.g., "I don't have an infinite amount of time to look stuff up, what do you think I am, a nerd?"). But sometimes I follow another tack, I just plainly contradict what the individual asserted without any evidence from my own end, and simply say "my impression is contrary to your impression."…

Links 1/26/11

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays this blogger from links. Science: Leapin' Blennies Science Online 2011: Even when we want something, we need to hide it. CloVR: A genomics tool for automated and portable sequence analysis using Virtual Machines and Cloud computing Solar car speed record smashed Other: The Blue Collar Life Beacon Hill: It's Time for 2 + 2 The Data Shows that State "Beggar Thy Neighbor" Policies Don't Work. NYT: "You Think Houses Are a Slow Sell? Try a Yacht" (the last sentence is brilliant) Mass Supreme Court to Consider Whether Buyers Out of Faulty…

Sedalia noticed

When we hit that poll at Sedalia the other day, the newspaper noticed — they actually have a news story on their poll being crashed. Richard DeFord, The Sedalia Democrat interactive systems manager, said Saturday's online paper had 25,118 page views, Sunday had 22,096 and as of 4:40 p.m. Monday had 70,939. If views continue at the current rate, DeFord said, it will reach 90,406 before the night is done. DeFord said Monday's views indicate the story is viral, or has  become popular in a short period of time. Of those views, many originated from as far away as London, England; Sydney and…

Around the Web: The Fallacy of Digital Natives, Beats vs obsessions, Data-gathering apps and more

The Fallacy of Digital Natives Beats vs obsessions, columns vs. blogs, and other angels dancing on pins Data-Gathering via Apps Presents a Gray Legal Area Coup at Environmental Journal? (journal editorial board quits when journal changes too much under new admin) Challenges in Digital Humanities 10 Questions To Distinguish Real From Fake Science Fit for Purpose: Developing Business Cases for New Services in Research Libraries Ten Things I Didn't Learn in Library School, Academic Edition ("You will spend more time in meetings than you can imagine.") Measuring Engagement (With Books) (ebooks…

Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Makers of All Things Technical and Scientific Will Find Amazing Ideas and Tools to Make Their Dreams Reality at USA Science & Engineering Festival

The USA Science & Engineering Festival hosted by Lockheed Martin offers a special appeal for budding entrepreneurs, inventors, engineers and programmers who will find the ideas, tools and resources to help them make their dreams a reality. "The Festival is a fantastic place for technical experts of all kinds to learn about the amazing advances that have been made in technology to help them make product prototypes from 3D printers, find designs online for parts and components, and meet an array of experts to help them bring their product ideas to life," said Larry Bock, serial…

ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants

As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what. Kevin Emamy develops and runs CiteULike. You can read my interview with Kevin from a few months ago. At the conference, he will participate in the Online Reference Managers session. Rhitu Chatterjee is the Multimedia Science Journalist and Podcast Host at The BBC/WGBH/PRI's World Science. She is on Twitter and at the Conference she will do a demo of World Science.…

Covering Science in Cyberspace

Science journalists and science communicators who attended the Knight New Media Center Best Practices: Covering Science in Cyberspace seminar in March 2007 collectively wrote a blog during the meeting: Two dozen prominent science journalists and science communicators were invited to participate in this special conference with three goals: 1) Identify the critical issues facing science journalists in the digital age; 2) identify innovative forms of multimedia story-telling and presentation of complex issues online; and 3) identify "best practices" for coverage of science issues on digital…

Animalcules 1.9

Welcome to the June edition of Animalcules! Apologies for the lateness; I only had a few minutes to get online yesterday, and that was mainly devoted to checking email and making sure there were no crises that needed my attention. So, without further ado... From the Scientific Creative Quarterly comes a humorous entry: Prokaryotes of America Unite. Almost makes me feel bad. (You also may want to check out Scientific Creative Quarterly editor David Ng's new blog here at Scienceblogs: The World's Fair. Jennifer over at Science Matters has a nice post discussing background information on…

Phase-Response Curves to Melatonin

NBM found an excellent online article (which I have seen before but I forgot) depicting Phase-Response Curves (PRC) to injections of melatonin in humans, rodents and lizards. Note how the shape is roughly opposite to that of a PRC to light pulses, i.e., at phases at which light elicits phase-delays, melatonin produces advances and vice versa: The lizard PRC was actually constructed in our lab, about ten years before I joined. The article, though, gives the wrong reference to this: Underwood, H. and M. Harless (1985). "Entrainment of the circadian activity rhythm of a lizard to melatonin…

Sign a Petition to Protect Boreal Birds

One of the world's largest intact forest ecosystems -- the breeding grounds for many of the world's warblers, ducks and other migratory birds -- is in big trouble. Oil and gas, timber, mining, and other industries are destroying vital habitat for birds and other wildlife in Canada's boreal forest. Canada's boreal forest spans more than 1.4 billion acres and provides vital breeding habitat for many of the world's birds -- including nearly 40% of North America's ducks, geese, and swans. Lynx, grizzlies and wolves also make their home in the boreal forest. And it is one of the world's largest "…

Antiquity's Winter Issue

The on-line version of Antiquity's winter issue (#322) was published just the other day. Here are some highlights (links to abstracts, papers then hidden by a pay wall): A pair of "ornamental trousers" found in an exceptionally well preserved 1st century BC grave in the Tarim basin in Xinjiang. These fancy pants were apparently made out of a pictorial wall hanging looted in the 2nd century from a Bactrian palace. An Early Neolithic Linear Pottery ceremonial centre on the Middle Rhine in south-west Germany whose voluminous causewayed enclosure ditch is full of cannibalised human bones and…

Joint statement by Rive and Friis-Christensen on "The Great Global Warming Swindle"

An interesting pointre TGGWS comes my way: We have concerns regarding the use of a graph featured in the documentary titled "Temp & Solar Activity 400 Years". Firstly, we have reason to believe that parts of the graph were made up of fabricated data that were presented as genuine. The inclusion of the artificial data is both misleading and pointless. Secondly, although the narrator commentary during the presentation of the graph is consistent with the conclusions of the paper from which the figure originates, it incorrectly rules out a contribution by anthropogenic greenhouse gases to…

My Brush With Fame?

Those of you who've been reading Starts With A Bang since this last summer may have seen this article I wrote -- The Math of the Fastest Human Alive -- about Usain Bolt's world record in the 100 meter dash. Little did I know what type of interest this would generate. A few weeks after I wrote it, I found that my article was reprinted -- verbatim -- in the St. Petersburg Times, and then was featured in MacLean's. And I thought that was going to be it. And then Esquire Magazine called. I'm featured on page 133 and 134 of this month's (April 2010) issue, and you can read the article online…

NASA Telescopes Help Solve Ancient Supernova Mystery

A mystery that began nearly 2,000 years ago, when Chinese astronomers witnessed what would turn out to be an exploding star in the sky, has been solved. New infrared observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, reveal how the first supernova ever recorded occurred and how its shattered remains ultimately spread out to great distances. The findings show that the stellar explosion took place in a hollowed-out cavity, allowing material expelled by the star to travel much faster and farther than it would have otherwise. "This supernova…

Fornvännen’s Spring Issue On-Line

Fornvännen 2016:1 is now on-line on Open Access. Anton Seiler on a weapon grave with fragments of a Vendel helmet found at Inhåleskullen near Uppsala. Some of the metalwork is interestingly decorated in Salin's Style III/E and must be late additions to the assemblage. Rune Edberg and Johnny Karlsson on the bone skates of Birka and Sigtuna. Almost none are long enough for grownups! Anders Nord and colleagues on the pigments used on Medieval stonework in churches on Gotland. Sabine Sten and colleagues on a wide range of studies done on the bones in Holy King Erik's reliquary in Uppsala…

Links for 2011-12-04

The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011 The year in photojournalism. How Beer Saved the World | Watch Free Documentary Online Did you know that beer was critical to the birth of civilization? That's right - beer. Scientists and historians line up to tell the amazing, untold story of how beer helped create math, poetry, pyramids, modern medicine, labor laws, and America. If you think beer is just something cold and filling to drink during sporting matches or in the kind of bars that you probably shouldn't order wine in, then, boy, are you ever in the dark. It turns out beer is responsible for,…

Anthro Blog Carnival

The forty-eighth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Tangled Up In Blue Guy. Archaeology and anthropology, and all about various aspects of Hrodgaud of Friuli! Hrodgaud or Rodgand was Duke of Friuli from 774 to 776. Probably he was already duke under Desiderius, even if some Frankish sources, such as the Einhardis annales, say that Charlemagne put him in power after the Siege of Pavia. Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to Brutha Carl at A Hot Cup Of Joe, not to the old submissions address. The next open hosting slot is on 22 October. All bloggers with an interest in the…

On the Nature bloggy hubbub

I've been scarce around these parts and hope to get a Friday Fermentable up before midnight. However, I just wanted to share the following on the last couple of days discussions about Nature Publishing Group's various pronouncements on the importance of science blogging, especially their mention in Nature Methods of ScienceOnline'09, an unconference I co-organized this year with founders and online science visionaries, Bora Zivkovic and Anton Zuiker. Bora has the main stories and DrugMonkey adds commentary and his own personal experiences. But leave it to Anton Zuiker to capture the whole…

Gore's Brilliant "Wall" Advertising Strategy and His Back Stage - Front Stage Problem

Repower America's lastest advertising campaign to promote their new online feature "The Wall" is brilliant. The ads and the social media initiative vividly portray the diversity of support for serious climate action while also framing the relevance of the issue in ways that transcend the traditional ideological divide. As I wrote in a paper this spring at the journal Environment, the Repower campaign is a stark contrast to the dominant message of Inconvenient Truth which may have unintentionally reinforced the partisan divide on climate change. Gore, however, also faces a major…

Panda relative discovered, Steve Steve overjoyed

This image released by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing shows front views of a new fossil panda skull, Ailuropoda microta, from Jinyin Cave, Guangxi, China, left, and a living giant panda skull, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, right. The first skull of the earliest known ancestor of the giant panda has been discovered in China, researchers report. Discovery of the skull, estimated to be at least 2 million years old, is reported by Russell L. Ciochon in the Tuesday June 19, 2007 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (AP Photo/ Institute…

But could it do a Haka?

While some may be blogging about large extinct beasties, it's also worth remember the little ones. AP is reporting: The discovery of fossilized remains of a mouse-like animal that lived at least 16 million years ago is the first hard evidence that New Zealand had its own indigenous land mammals, a researcher said Thursday. New Zealand paleontologist Trevor Worthy and his team say they discovered two parts of a jaw and a femur (thighbone) -- about the size of a fingernail -- during digs in New Zealand's Central Otago region from 2002 until 2004. Their findings were published in the…

AGU experimenting with open peer review

This was in an earlier EOS (pdf, not available online for institutional subscribers so I found this by flipping through the print!) - number 32 of this year from 11 August. They're trying what Nature tried and dropped and what EGU has been fairly successful with in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics - although neither gathered/s many comments. They're trying it for just a year and only for a few journals: G-cubed Global Biogeochemical Cycles (?) JGR-Earth Surface JGR-Planets Radio Science It's completely voluntary.Registration is required to comment. The formal reviews will be posted (may…

Seed Magazine in the Classroom: Grounds for Suspending the Teacher??

Apparently, offering high school English students the chance to read an article on the Seed Magazine website is ground for suspension - at least if you're an English teacher in Piasa, Illinois. According to several media reports, teacher Dan DeLong has been suspended with pay pending a Monday evening board meeting. The suspension came about when a parent complained about the content of an optional, extra-credit assignment that DeLong had offered students in one of his 10th grade honors classes. The assignment? Read an online version of an article by ScienceBlogger Jonah Lehrer that…

Cass Sunstein to Head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

That's the news from the Chicago Tribune. I'm interested to hear whether any environmentalists are going to be rattled by this choice. Sunstein is an ingenious scholar, and continues the whole "best and brightest" motif of the Obama administration--so welcome after so many years of Bush anti-intellectualism. But on the other hand, some of Sunstein's views on regulation are controversial, although certainly very thoughtful. Important question: Will he roll back the Bush administration's overuse of the Data Quality Act? By the way, I haven't read all of Sunstein's books, but I have read…

A brief word of thanks

Many thanks to everyone who has read, commented, and promoted my posts on "Ida", the 'missing link' that wasn't. I have been floored by the response - over 25,000 visits in the last 24 hours; being mentioned on Wikipedia; being quoted on Slashdot; and being picked up by blogs on the Guardian, the New York Times, the Times online (twice!), Popular Science, and New Scientist websites. And to think I was worried that no one would pay attention to my little 'ol blog amongst all the hype... I think the prize for the best response has to go to Ed of Not Exactly Rocket Science, though. Ed writes;…

You can buy anything on eBay, I guess

There ought to be some regulation of the kind of fraud some people peddle online. I'm tempted to try this one: BOOTY ENHANCEMENT Spell Cast by Powerful Wiccan Witch (note: bikini-clad bottom on display at that link), just to see what happens. Except that I know what will happen: nothing. Less than nothing, actually, since we're changing diet here and I expect my booty will be shrinking — the TrophyWife™ has actually put together a flavorful, low calorie, non-fat menu for me that looks pretty good already. But then…the magic spell is only $8.95! And this is the most dismal statistic of all: 99…

Wired on Storm World (Or, Which Kicks More Butt, Hurricanes or the Transformers?)

The latest issue of Wired features The Transformers on the cover. And all I can say is, why did Hollywood wait so long to make this movie? Don't they know what I put my parents through when I was six years old and trying to keep pace with friends who'd collected more of these nifty bots than me? The latest Wired also features a short item about Storm World. You can read it online here, but I vote for the PDF version (here), so you can see the truly awesome graphic design (the best I've seen from my clips so far on the new book). And thus the question becomes: Which is tougher, bots that…

I don't think he's going to help

There's a group in the UK called "Truth in Science" (it's not just Republicans who title things ironically) which is pushing creationism in the schools there. A recommendation in Parliament is trying to dismiss these silly people as something that should be treated very cautiously by the schools, and one blogger wrote his member of Parliament asking for support. He got a curious reply. I would be very happy to act on this matter as soon as you can prove beyond all reasonable doubt that Creationism is not true, and I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible. My first thought is…

Editor's Selections: Technology in our Social Lives

As Psychology and Neuroscience Editor for ResearchBlogging.org, each week I choose 3-4 of the best posts from around the blogosphere in those categories. Here are my picks for this week: This week, we've got an selection of posts exploring the increasingly complex and sometimes unsettling roles that social media and technology play in our social lives. First, Erina Lee of eHarmony Labs writes about the accuracy of the online profile picture. Is an accurate photo better than a perfect photo? Dr. Shock describes recent research investigating the relationship between Facebook use and academic…

Regular show?

It's true that I don't have a lot of free time on my hands, but last nights UStream event with the crew was lots of fun. Isis and Arikia have been hosting a regular Friday night get-together on UStream, which is a total blast, but last night Isis couldn't tear herself away from her hot, hot science to host. As an experiment, I opened up a UStream channel and we happily chatted far to late into the evening. And...the format is interesting. I can broadcast live video, and have a parallel text chat. This got me thinking. There are one or two online doctor shows (OK, only one that I know…

China builds new manned submersible

China has a knack for naming their exploration vehicles. They gave the world the Shenzhou (or "divine vessels") to reach outer space and the Taikonauts to fly them. Now China is planning an ocean exploration program 'equally important' to their space endeavours, including plans to build a sub-sea base station and a manned submersible capable of diving to 7000m by year 2010. So, how do you say "sea dragon" in Mandarin? You can never have too many deep diving manned submersibles. Less than a dozen vessels I know of are capable of working beyond 1000m depth. Between the Chinese submersible,…

Bye, bye, Expelled

This coming Friday will mark the beginning of the summer 2008 movie season, the first big-budget film to make an appearance being Iron Man. What does that mean for the unfunny and atrocious propaganda piece Expelled? If the theaters near me are any indication, it means that Stein's film flunked at the box office and is being expelled to make room for summer blockbusters. Of the three theaters that carried the film in my area, all of them are going to drop it this coming Friday, although I'm sure Expelled will soon re-appear on DVD. The fact that Expelled is getting dropped from theaters doesn…

Worst... interview... EVER!

A few days ago I mentioned that paleontologist Terry Gates was going to appear on Bill O'Reilly's show to speak on the subject of whether global warming killed the dinosaurs. As we all know, FOX News = Fake News, and I don't understand why Gates agreed to be on the show. It was the absolute worst interview I've ever seen, and basically consisted of a lot of clips of dinosaurs killing each other interspersed with a few questions that made it seem like scientists don't know what the hell they're talking about when it comes to the K/T extinction (which, of course, marked the extinction of groups…

Photo of the Day #76: Towering Barosaurus

A light in the ceiling illuminates the holes in the skull of the towering Barosaurus mount in the Grand Rotunda of the AMNH. The trip into the city yesterday was tiring, but it was definitely a lot of fun, especially since I got to hang out with my fellow dino-nerd Amanda (and her boyfriend) in one of the best museums in the world. Amanda and I also got to chat with one of the "Fossil Interpreters" at the museum for a while, and it was definitely nice to chat with someone who knew a lot about the exhibits (Here's a tip if you visit the museum yourself; look carefully at the ribs on the left…

Monopoly and News Media

Rogue Columnist describes how newspaper consolidation--a result of increasing laxity of anti-trust decisions--has damaged newspapers: -The creation of monopoly markets and, through consolidation, cartels of newspaper ownership. Economic history shows us that monopolies and cartels always commit suicide. Divorced from the imperatives of real competition, monopolies easily slip into a self-centered world of bureaucratic conformity and a desire to protect the status quo. They became slow and rigid, in other words, road kill for competitors. -Consolidation of newspapers into large, publicly held…

Environment and Humanities Weekly Channel Highlights

In this post: the large versions of the Environment and Humanities & Social Science channel photos, comments from readers, and the best posts of the week. Environment. Clouds over the Cascade Mountains in Washington state. From Flickr, by *clairity* Humanities & Social Science. From Flickr, by eschipul Reader comments of the week: In Ah, Carbon Capture; we hardly knew ye, James Hrynyshyn of The Island of Doubt laments the dismal results of a pair of new carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) studies. Both studies seem to quash any hopes that the technology would make coal-fired…

They think that sex is yucky so they don't want us to enjoy it

From January 15, 2006, another good book.... From Chris Mooney, a book suggestion, that I immediatelly followed. You know I have written a number of times on sexual politics, from the historical non-existence of "traditional" marriage to femiphobia as a psychological root of wingnuttery. Thus, of course I clicked on the link and ordered the book immediatelly. Who knows, once I read it I may write a post on it, too. The book is How The Pro-choice Movement Saved America by Cristina Page. Here are a couple of excerpts from the editorial reviews: The abortion issue is a cover for a…