Arctic Circle Extravaganza, T minus 7 days.
Hello Terryians! In one week, myself and a crew of scientists, technicians, and salt-of-the-earth true-blue sailors will be hurdling through house-sized blocks of ice aboard the…
Read articleCap-and-Trade Founding Theorist Questions Usefullness
From the WSJ (source): Mr. Crocker sees two modern-day problems in using a cap-and-trade system to address the global greenhouse-gas issue. The first is that carbon…
Read articlePew Poll: 6% of Scientists are Republicans, and other interesting facts to bring up at parties.
Pew and the AAAS collaborated in surveying scientists and the general public concerning issues from public views of science to research funding and climate change (link).…
Read articleStatistical Analysis of Iran’s Election Data, Fraud Likely Occurred
From the Washington Post (link – Go read it): Each of these two tests provides strong evidence that the numbers released by Iran’s Ministry of the…
Read articleThis is it. The big one.
NYU professor Clay Shirky gave a fantastic talk on new media during our TED@State event earlier this month. He revealed how cellphones, the web, Facebook and…
Read articleIn Search of Death – Chasing HIV
From Rolling Stone (link): Carlos nonchalantly asks whether his drink was made with whole or skim milk. He takes a moment to slurp on his grande…
Read articleAnother Reason to Despise Spammers…
From the BBC (link): A study into spam has blamed it for the production of more than 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy every year, enough to power…
Read articleHOLY FREAKING CRAP. -or- Dick to the doc to the PhD, he’s smarter than you, he’s got a science degree.
Creationists fail to achnkowledge how badass a Dawkin’s throw down is, even if it’s meant to smear a group of high profile atheists (I saw Dawkins,…
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How I haven’t learned to stop worrying and love the scientific method.
By Dave Semeniuk,
Did I write that? No, I couldn’t have – but what if I did? What if I forgot to? What if I should have? Oh fuck,…
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