In the early days of the Obama administration transition, there were a number of concerns about his anti-science beliefs. He hired a guy who thought girls couldn't do math and one who thinks there is a government UFO conspiracy.But then he made Steven Chu Energy Secretary, and that was good, if only Chu could curb his anti-CO2 fetish. read...
read moreIn the early days of the Obama administration transition, there were a number of concerns about his anti-science beliefs. He hired a guy who thought girls couldn't do math and one who thinks there is a government UFO conspiracy.But then he made Steven Chu Energy Secretary, and that was good, if only Chu could curb his anti-CO2 fetish.read...
read moreAll people care about these days is cost. What happened to buying local?Health Canada warned would-be parents not to purchase "fresh" semen online, saying it may be tainted with infectious diseases. Pesky Canada has strict controls for obtaining donor semen to minimize the potential risk of transmitting serious infectious diseases, like a requirement that donor semen must be...
read moreWhen I saw some preliminary results in Nature about CERN's CLOUD experiment a while ago, I didn't regard it as interesting enough to write about. Seriously, does anyone not think the Sun impacts the climate by now?I know, I know, in the 1990s it was all carbon dioxide, but it's no longer 2006 - anyone gullible enough to believe the French and the Germans insisted on a 1990 date in the Kyoto...
read moreA documentary on Intelligent Design, a flavor of Creationism, can be shown at the California Science Center under terms of a settlement announced yesterday.But the group that sued the center after they scheduled a screening of "Darwin's Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record" and the center canceled it in 2009 now says it won't bother to show the film at the center's IMAX theater....
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