More on Ethics…
During tonight’s class, Dr. Sens briefly covered a few ethical frameworks with repect to GMOs. I thought I’d plug an excellent philosophy resource here that I…
Read articleScience Journalism at The Onion
Son-Of-A-Bitch Mouse Solves Maze Researchers Spent Months Building Despite attempts to condition the mouse by screaming directly into its face, the researchers reported that the subject…
Read articleFraming Science in Science for Non-Scientists, or something.
Read and think about the following sentence, taken from the first paragraph of an article in a peer reviewed publication (link): “Chromium is one of the…
Read articleVancouver Evergreen Skytrain Receives $350 Million
In Burnaby this morning, Stephan Harper announced that Translink would receive $350 million of federal funding to complete the Evergreen Line, a skytrain line starting in…
Read articleBraaaains. Fish Braaaains.
When I was a kid, I wanted a see-through gameboy. My rich friends had one, so of course I begged for it. My parent’s being the…
Read articleThis is incredibly disappointing
A NASA satellite designed to track carbon dioxide emissions has landed in the ocean near Antarctica after failing to reach orbit early Tuesday. […] The OCO…
Read articleRay Pierrehumbert, climatologist and RealClimate blogger, is giving a talk at UBC
One of the scientists behind the award winning RealClimate.org blog, a “…commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists,”…
Read articleDry Science Humour at the BBC
From the following article at the BBC, “Number of Alien Worlds Quantified” came this beaut: While researchers often come up with overall estimates of the likelihood…
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Is Iran Evil?
By Dave Semeniuk,
Stephen Harper, Canada’s Prime Minister, thinks so. From the Toronto Star: Speaking to the Wall Street Journal‘s editorial board, Harper criticized Iran, which the West accuses…
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