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 …
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?
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 …