The EPA under administrator Lisa Jackson has been exceptionally heavy-handed and secret email accounts have the chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation wondering what it means for transparency. The administration has a real issue with transparency; yesterday I discussed the closure of Yucca Mountain for nuclear waste storage and...
read moreI'm pretty confident the world is not going to end because a bunch of people who couldn't even keep Spaniards - SPANIARDS - from taking over their country were too lazy to make a new calendar.NASA is confident also. So confident they created a video to explain why the world did not end December 21st, 2012 in order to appease a wacko Mayan conspiracy theory - and they even released it 10 days...
read moreNuclear power is not mired in regulatory uncertainty because the science is unsettled, the overwhelming majority of scientists accept physics and the really overwhelming consensus of nuclear physicists accept the safety of nuclear power. read...
read moreA NASA photo error showed just how many sheep in science media are blindly regurgitating anything about space they read. NASA got a snapshot from Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko on the International Space Station, 230 miles above Earth, wrong, saying a summit in India was Mount Everest rather than what it really was, Saser Muztagh in the Karakoram Range of the Kashmir region of India. It...
read moreAt midnight tonight, new Federal Communications Commission rules will bar television networks from blasting viewers with excessively loud, screamy commercial breaks. Adopted a year ago Thursday, the rules "will require commercials to have the same average volume as the programs they accompany," the FCC says. The commission was prompted to action last year when Congress passed the "Commercial...
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