Republicans are not the only folks who can not accept science. Liberals are obsessed with he ides that uranium is a bad word. Uranium is a natural part of our environments … as are many other metals, including lead. In the case of uranium, a small part of uranium includes unstable isotope[...]
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LIberal Hype:Republicans are not the only folks who can not accept science.
Sequencing Sasquatch!
Researchers at Oxford University and the Lausanne Museum of Zoology in Switzerland are asking yeti enthusiasts or anyone with samples thought to be from the creature alternatively known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch to share them for DNA analysis as part of the Oxford-Lausanne Collateral Hominid Project, [...]
How NIH Funding Effects Science As a Career
This letter appeared last September on The Scientist. The fact that becoming an independent researcher takes upwards of 15years is just too long for me. Furthermore, being in research for almost a decade (undergrad, graduate, 1 yr postdoc), I have noticed that funding favors medical researchers. I[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Wrong Asteroid blamed for extinction of dinosaurs
NASA reported last Monday: “As a result of the WISE science team’s investigation, the demise of the dinosaurs remains in the cold case files,” Lindley Johnson, program executive for the Near Earth Object (NEO) Observation Program at NASA. From NASA: According to that theory, [...]
BREAKING NEWS: Oops, CNN and Fox Report that Supreme Court Strikes DOWN Obamacare
FOX and CNN announce the the SCOTUS has dumped Obamacare: The TeaPart joined the rush to victory: Of course, they were WRONG! Here is the full text. Fox, of course, is now spinning madly, trying to paint the decision as a defeat for the Affordable Health Act. THE-Ave editor on the other hand, is q[...]
The Dilemna of Global Warming
There is no debate. Global warming is real and man made CO2 is a big problem. As Lonnie Thompson, a climatologist at Ohio State University,says “Scientists are inherently skeptical,””After enough evidence and observation, though, you have to start to accept findings. That is wh[...]
Do Pollsters Lie?
Reposted from Daily Kos Electionsby Steve SingiserRasmussen’s status as an infallible pollster to the right, and a inevitable source of derision to the left, has been well established for years. But, looking at some of their recent polling (most notably, their daily tracking poll of the[...]
When the US Runs Out of Water
In 40 years, US could face water crisis Global warming and climate change are likely to unfold a water crisis in the United States within the next 40 years, says a new report. It concluded that seven in 10 of the more than 3,100 US counties could face risk of fresh water shortages. The report [&hell[...]
50% Drop In TOP Students Choosing Science and Engineering!
Even greater in number are the undergrad science majors who glimpse their future as a jaded graduate student, and decide that they would be better off in another line of work. People are walking away from science, and taking their future potentially ground-breaking accomplishments with them. Study t[...]
Death of the last rational Republicans
Arlen Specter Dead Arlen Specter’s death is a massive step toward an inevitable redefinition of the Republican Party as something none of its past leaders would recognize. The party that arose in reaction to the South’s insistence on maintaining an inhuman institution now has become [...]