Careful What You Wish For
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Archive of entries posted on September 2006
Chris Mooney Causes Radio Station to Fold
Yesterday afternoon, Chris Mooney swung through town on a book tour visit, including a talk radio appearance. Today comes news that KAGM is being shut down, replaced with an all-Spanish music format of some kind. It would be a mistake, of course, to confuse correlation with causation.
What I Love About the Internets
I go out for lunch, and within an hour there’s a picture of my pasta posted for the world to see.
El Niño’s Bite Already Being Felt
Fears of a drought in Australia are pushing up wheat prices: Wheat prices in Chicago rose to a nine-year high on speculation that drought will cut production by as much as half in Australia, the third-largest exporter of the grain behind the U.S. and Canada.
Creating Generation Gaps
My colleague Amy Miller had a hilarious (infuriating?) story in Saturday’s paper about young Zac Cornfield, a first-grader at Montezuma Elementary School who was not allowed to attend school with spiked blue hair. Zac said he doesn’t understand what all the fuss was about. He only wanted to look like the punk rockers he idolizes. …
Escorting the Press
A newly issued NASA news media policy: Effective Oct. 1, 2006, all news media entering the access controlled area of the NASA headquarters building in Washington must be escorted. News media accredited by the Office of Public Affairs and issued a media badge do not need to sign in at the visitor’s desk, but they …
Hansen Scores
If media coverage is your measure, climate Scientist James Hansen scored big today with his paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy. Earth Headed for Warmest Temps in a Million Years was the ABC news headline. I love it that they called him “the U.S. government’s top climatologist.” And you’ve got to love a …
NanoHelp
I need a little (haha) help. I’m working on a piece about nanotechnology, and I’m collecting uses of the “nano” prefix. Here’s my initial list: nanoelectronics nanophotonics nanomaterials nano-bio-micro nanomechanics nanopants Got any other examples?
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
My advance on Chris Mooney’s flash through town on his book tour: Science policy is not the sort of thing that usually lands on the best-seller lists. But political fireworks is a different story, and Mooney’s “The Republican War on Science” has been a hit. “We had no idea this was going to be as …
A Solution to the Helmet Dilemma
A comment worth highlighting in the thread on whether bike helmets are dangerous because cars pass more closely when a cyclist is helmetted: The solution is invisible helmets. Duh.