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 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.
Not exactly phenology (is there such a thing as “cultural phenology”?), but Nora Friday noted another sign of fall: The mornings are getting brisker now; I need to wear my jacket when I walk to class in the mornings. Cold mornings mean hot air balloons, of course.
Luis suggests an approach to the spam problem: [I]t really seems like it is a shame we probably couldn’t get away with killing a few spammers- because surely you wouldn’t need to do more than 1 or 2 before the point got across very clearly. To put it another way: I don’t think all spammers …
As of Friday, according to the CDC, 166 people had been sickened by eating spinach contaminated with E. coli since late August. Eighty-eight have been hospitalized. There is one confirmed death and two additional possible deaths. Food-borne pathogens normally send 325,000 people to the hospital every year in this country, and cause 5,200 deaths, according …
While we’ve all been palavering about whether there’s a legitimate hurricane-global warming link, we’ve apparently missed the real story about the way humans are causing more powerful hurricanes (this is from last October – my humble apologies for missing this vital story for so long): That, despite what experts tell us, the technlogy currently exists …
Another reminder that, while we all try to furiously explain that the hockey stick doesn’t matter all that much, or that solar variability isn’t really a deal killer, or that we shouldn’t be too concerned that the ocean is actually cooling, out beyong the science skirmishes where people have ignored the climate wars, accepted the …
Shirley has a bread mold question: hello, we are doing a bread molds lab, but we found the bread are turning into liquid after one week. why? by the way, we poured salt, sugar and water on them respectively. thanks a lot! I’m afraid I’m no help, but perhaps if you have any suggestions, you …
Seen in a Sandia Labs parking lot, a bright red bumper sticker that read… If this sticker is blue, you’re driving too fast.
This has already been hashed out in some detail over on Roger Pielke Sr.’s blog, but the Lyman et al. paper on ocean heat content is out: We observe a net loss of 3.2 (±1.1) × 1022 J of heat from the upper ocean between 2003 and 2005. Using a broad array of in situ …