Is climate change a bulldozer or bullet train? Dan Farber, professor of law | 12/5/13 We’re in the early stages of climate change — just how much depending in large part on whether we control our emissions. But how quickly will this happen? Is it a bulldozer we can dodge or a bullet train that[...]
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Alternative Fools
This January 8 article from the New York Times shows how dangerous it is to panic in a crisis. Real or imagined. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/science/new-report-urges-western-governments-to-reconsider-reliance-on-biofuels.html From the article: For instance, under mandates adopted by Congress d[...]
February 7th, 2015 - 2:03 am § in Science
Wierd Scient(ists)
Michael Mosley infests himself with tapeworms The moment Michael Mosley discovered a tapeworm living inside him BBC TV presenter Dr Michael Mosley has infected himself with a number of parasites in an effort to understand how they affect the human body. He swallowed tapeworm cysts, stuck a leech on [...]
February 6th, 2015 - 11:01 pm § in Politics
Fossil fuel interests call wind farms a health hazard
This has to be straight out of the Koch brothers propaganda factory. Wisconsin is facing a $2 billion budget shortfall, but Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal includes $250,000 to study the health effects of wind farms. Why? My guess is because fossil energy is the core of the Koch brothers&#[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: In the beginning there were Adam, Eve, Ngbo, Perin, Sillia, Ghe, Huang, Uman, Preter, Thym, Kal El, Thoru, Brent, Miter, Jnaet, Janus. Kasi, Chooma, Rven,Avrum, Moseh, Sara, kGhila, Juano, Wall, Sun, Bulgo, Kim, Huang, PBetu, ………………………………………………,
How big was the human population bottleneck? Another staple of theology refuted. September 18, 2011 – 7:13 am A paper in Nature by Heng Li and Richard Durbin contains estimates of the “effective population size” of our ancestors at different points in evolutionary time. (Effective population [...]
January 25th, 2015 - 12:07 am § in Uncategorized
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: of God and cloning Neanderthals
If George wants to clone a Neanderthal, why not clone Sasquatch? George Church, interview by Spiegel SPIEGEL: Mr. Church, do you believe in God? Church: I would be blind, if I didn’t see that faith in an overall plan resulted in where we are today. Faith is a very powerful[...]
On Xmas we missed a chance to celebrate
On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642 tweet from Neil deGrasse Tyson[...]
Biggest anti-science fools of 2014
This would have been hard to write, if Mother Jones magazine hadn’t written it for me. Many thanks! Here are their nominees: #1 “Basically anything said by Donald Trump,” with marqee mention of calling global warming a “hoax” that’s merely a result of scientists &[...]
Radical Republicans: GOP Senator opposes hand washing regulations
The free market, not government regulation, should compel food service employees wash their hands after using the bathroom. So says newly-elected U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), who explained, “I don’t have any problem with Starbucks if they choose to opt out of this policy as long as t[...]