Writing in USA Today, microbiologist Dr. Alex Berezow makes a statement sure to leave the militant left wing who believe all Republicans are mentally Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann sputtering. Namely, that anti-science Republicans get media coverage but not anti-science Democrats. read...
read moreWriting in USA Today, microbiologist Dr. Alex Berezow makes a statement sure to leave the militant left wing who believe all Republicans are mentally Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann sputtering. Namely, that anti-science Republicans get media coverage but not anti-science Democrats.read...
read moreThe Times Atlas of the World, published by HarperCollins, exaggerated the rate of Greenland's ice loss in its thirteenth edition last week, scientists are saying. It said that Greenland lost 15 percent of its ice cover over the past 12 years, based on information from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado in the United States. The Greenland ice sheet is the second biggest in the...
read morePeople may complain about tax breaks for successful energy companies but the one thing worse is spending real money on lousy ones. Yet it has happened because advocacy is taking precedence over science.The recent Solyndra LLC collapse is not the first time this has happened, nor can it be blamed solely on the Obama administration simply due to his zeal for alternative energy - the...
read moreApollo 11 and giant leaps for mankind get all the love now but the missions leading up to it brought their own excitement - and a mystery. In May 1969, two months before man walked on the Moon, Commander Thomas Stafford, Command Module Pilot John Young and Lunar Module Pilot Eugene Cernan made a 'dummy' run and successfully returned from the Moon and landed their Apollo 10 command...
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