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gregladen | March 9, 2012
Yes, folks, it's YouTube Weekend! (Our daycare is closed and it's convention/caucus season in Minnesota and I've got a candidate!)
hrynyshyn | March 8, 2012Michael Mann, co-author of the "hockey stick" visualization of the last millennium of global warming, has written a book about the trials of sticking to the science in an era when half the country is hostile to reality. Here's the 10-minute synopsis, in the form of an interview:
gregladen | March 8, 2012Quite 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
gregladen | March 7, 2012Have 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 policy and education, and scientific skepticism. We are honored to have Dr. Krauss join Atheists Talk this Sunday to discuss his recently published book, A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing.
A Universe From Nothing tackles ideas of thrilling complexity and importance.…
gregladen | March 7, 2012Skeptically 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 pheromones to fMRI, it's an entertaining and informative look at the neuroscience of affection.
We record live with Kayt Sukel on Sunday, March 11 at 6 pm MT. The podcast will be available to download at 9 pm MT on Friday, March 16.
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gregladen | March 7, 2012PASADENA, 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 structure and composition in unprecedented detail. The data also will provide a better understanding of how Earth and other rocky planets in the solar system formed and evolved.
"The initiation of science data collection is a time when the team lets out a collective sigh of relief because we are…
gregladen | March 7, 2012In 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 climate change, why do you still not believe that both are true?
Why do you oppose drug decriminalization when science and practical experience in Portugal support it?
How can we use research, science and technology to help reduce the costs and improve the quality of health care?
These and many other…
gregladen | March 7, 2012A 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
Posted date: Mar-05-12
Location: Chicago
Description
Responsibilities: The internship will involve a wide variety of online communication responsibilities, including writing and researching original articles, data entry, and basic "wiki" programming. Specific tasks include:
Click here to read the full…
gregladen | March 7, 2012Climate 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 a former university climate scientist," reports the Roanoke Times (March 2, 2012). The Guardian (March 2, 2012) explains, "The court rejected Ken Cuccinelli's demand for Mann's email, research notes, and even handwritten memos from his time at the University of Virginia, ruling that the official did…
gregladen | March 6, 2012From 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 still open to Freshwater to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of Ohio, however, so the case -- which ultimately stems from a complaint against Freshwater lodged in 2008 -- may continue to linger in the Ohio court system.
In 2008, a local family accused Freshwater of engaging in inappropriate…
gregladen | March 6, 2012The 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.
gregladen | March 6, 2012No, 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 the battle for truth, beauty, and the sheer joy of challenging the status quo.
The master--and a winner of NCSE's 2012 Friend of Darwin award--is Judy Scotchmoor, Assistant Director for Education and Public Programs at the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP). Scotchmoor is a…
gregladen | March 6, 2012Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Also, see this release from the NCSE
jdupuis | March 6, 2012
Engineers Crashing Our Gates
From Credibility to Information Quality
Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality
How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy
Most Smartphone Apps are Spyware
Work for Hire? and Work for Hire update
Letter from the trenches (science PhD embraces HS teaching career possibililty)
The Bookstore in the Library
Web 2.0 -- at Your Own Pace
How to Counter Amazon: Create a One World E-Book Alliance
Analyst: Publishers Seeing Steady Print Declines Should Ready for Steep Drop
Half-Time Jobs, Full-Time Scientists
How the e-book landscape is…
gregladen | March 4, 2012That 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 geophysical instruments we will be able to see right through to the center of Mars, and will be able to map out how deeply the crust extends as well as the size of the core."
InSight is one of three missions vying to be selected for flight in the Discovery Program, a series of NASA missions to understand the…