NY Times Magazine:
Of two minds. On your grey matter.
NY Times:
In Kansas, Darwinism Goes on Trial Once More. But grade school and newspapers are not the place to judge ... or prove/disprove ... such theories. Which, to me, exposes the entire intention of this thrust.
NY Times Science:
The world is a brighter place.
CSM:
A tough time in biology classes. The answers to the “ten questions.” Link it, bring it to the top of search queries. As for religion-based versions of ID: if you see the Buddha on the road, kill him. The god that can be deduced is not god.
Telegraph.UK:
Leading scientific journals ‘are censoring debate on global warming’. Hitching your wagon to the concept of ‘global warming’ is easy; conclusively proving it with scientific method, is difficult. One need look no farther than changes in local weather patterns, and extrapolate upwards from there. But science keeps taking the more difficult top-down approach ... when everyone can see their local urban ‘pollution bubble’ and attendant effects growing yearly. Visit the Grand Canyon, yet not see the Canyon, and deny humankind’s effects on weather and nature.
Boston.com:
Darwinians may be their own worst enemy.
NY Times:
NY Times:
Blogging discontent at Los Alamos.
Sci-Tech Today:
Earth’s Energy Out of Balance, Data Confirm. “According to the study, Earth has an energy imbalance of 0.85 watts per meter squared—large by standards of the planet’s history. It will cause an additional warming of 0.6 degrees Celsius (1 degree Fahrenheit) by the end of this century, the researchers predict.” Little red Zhongxing …
Washington Post:
The next Shuttle flight is delayed, it heads back to the mechanic’s bay. No Burans left to repurpose, sadly.
NY Times:
Itty-Bitty and Shrinking, Fusion Device Has Big Ideas. I love the concept, but fear a proliferation of dead fusion cylinders in our landfills ... not unlike today’s portable poisonous chemical stews we call ‘batteries.’ Please, develop this responsibly.
FT.com:
Antarctic ice picks up the pace of retreat. “Of the 244 glaciers surveyed in the Antarctic, 87 per cent had retreated, by an average of 600 metres. The rate of retreat accelerated to 50m per year in the past five years, faster than at any other time in the past half century.”
CNN:
Beware leaky “old maids.”
Reuters:
Egyptologists Find Tomb of Ancient Southern Ruler.
The Independent.UK:
Decoded at last: the ‘classical holy grail’ that may rewrite the history of the world. Forget Dan Brown. Via 2020 Hindsight.
Der Spiegel:
Lovers in clay. Given that this is “modern America”, I will warn of explicit ancient images.
CSM:
Pulling the plug on science? “The point hasn’t been lost on US corporations, which increasingly are outsourcing R&D to labs overseas. The shift testifies to the lower cost and high quality of scientists and engineers overseas ...” Corporate heads are no fools; in science-based vertical markets, ‘spontaneous generation’ won’t cut it.
WSJ Opinion Journal:
When Numbers Solve a Mystery. Legalizing abortion reduces crime rates. A Slate email exchange with Steven Levitt. Before you knee-jerk ‘racism’ reflexes, as these kinds of social issues often do, look at actual abortion statistics. White abortions outnumber any minority.
CNN:
CSM:
Old culprit hits birds - maybe people. DDT, ‘the gift that keeps on giving.’
The Economist:
Homo Economicus? So, the first individual to say, ‘my skill is worth more than others’ enabled the explosion in humankind? A spear, say, worth more than a warm blanket? Which came first, abstract concepts or the application thereof? Neanderthals failed because they couldn’t breed a huckster? It is, as usual, much more complex than this article implies.
Discovery:
The “art” of invisible forces.
NY Times:
Town’s Venison Banquet Puts a State on Alert. “Through unlucky circumstance, tissue samples from a deer that one farmer donated for the banquet tested positive for chronic wasting disease, and the results were discovered after the meat had been eaten at the banquet.” Pepto-Bismol ain’t enough.
SF New Mexican:
Think tank forms at Los Alamos. “A group of prominent Los Alamos scientists, in the hopes of shaping national arms control policy, have formed a think tank. [snip] In recent weeks, the Los Alamos Center for International Nuclear Security Studies received its nonprofit organization status and can now begin seeking grants from foundations.”
NY Times Op-Ed:
Kristof, Nukes are green. A bit fluffy. You still have to safely solve the nuclear waste issue ‘in perpetuity.’ Many of the ‘problems’ with nuclear plants have been the result of governmental or corporate ‘low bid’ construction techniques. I briefly worked at a concrete plant in between semesters at college; the mix must be right, and rarely is. And expert heli-arc welders are few and far between these days. I would also note, wind may not be 24/7 everywhere, but there is rarely a day without some in the Southwest. Solar needs more development, IMHO, to bring prices down and power yield up. But I’m no expert ... and neither is Mr Kristof, obviously.
