Tag: Science

Why Does It Take A Republican To Say This?

Filed in Science and Health by on November 19, 2010 21 Comments

Finally a politician communicates about the benefits of addressing climate change in innovation and technology. Surprisingly, it’s a Republican who’s doing this.

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DL interviews Chris Coons: Science!

Filed in Delaware, Science and Health by on October 29, 2010 4 Comments

In Part 2 of our interview with Chris Coons, Unstable Isotope asks Mr. Coons to talk about how he will use his background in science to inform his decisions in the Senate.

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Vulcans Rule, Klingons Drool

Filed in Science and Health by on June 29, 2010 5 Comments
Vulcans Rule, Klingons Drool

The Obama Administration has set a new course for US Space policy that embraces arms control. Actually the arms control policy is an old course favored by Reagan, Bush I and Clinton, but not Bush II (is anyone surprised?). President Obama’s team will look to international cooperation instead of the “Go it alone” attitude favored by Bush and Cheney.

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The Politics of Science

Filed in National, Science and Health by on June 28, 2010 11 Comments
The Politics of Science

Science writer Chris Mooney (Unscientific America and The Republican War on Science) has a recent column in The Washington Post about how scientists need to approach the general populous in getting their facts heard and understood. Mooney looks at climate change denialism, anti-vaccine hysteria and Yucca Mountain. (He doesn’t include opposition to evolution or denial […]

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Hair Of The Dog?

Filed in Science and Health by on May 10, 2010 6 Comments

Whenever I’ve had a little too much “fun” (and ended up paying for it) my brother would always say, “hair of the dog.”  Looks like he had a point. Scientists have discovered the molecule in the brain that leads to hangovers. The neuropeptide, a brain-signalling molecule, is believed to cause the body to experience withdrawal […]

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The Nuance of Studying Same-Sex Behavior in Animals

Filed in Science and Health by on April 4, 2010 3 Comments
The Nuance of Studying Same-Sex Behavior in Animals

This is not a political post, rather it is an anti-political post regarding zoology and how it relates to human beings. In this morning’s New York Times Magazine, Can Animals Be Gay? focuses on one of the largest same-sex Laysan albatross colonies and how it does not relate to human behavior. First and foremost, when […]

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A Quiet Victory

Filed in Science and Health by on March 17, 2010 11 Comments
A Quiet Victory

The one debate between scientists and deniers that I don’t relish is the argument vaccinations cause autism. Maybe as I parent, I understand the need, the desire to find answers to questions that remained unanswered. Earlier this week, three separate rulings determined that vaccines — specifically thimerosal —are not linked to the cause of autism […]

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Climate Change = Weird Weather

Filed in National by on February 17, 2010 103 Comments

Funny how last weeks snow storms were all the rage on Right blogs while not a word was uttered concerning the unseasonably warm weather in Vancouver.  Typically Republican.  And while I think Thomas Friedman’s NYT Op-Ed is a step in the right direction I doubt it will change any minds on the Right – mainly […]

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Darwin Trumps You, Mr. Freshwater

Filed in National, Science and Health by on January 20, 2010 6 Comments
Darwin Trumps You, Mr. Freshwater

Meet John Freshwater,  an eighth-grade school science teacher from Ohio who likes to play loose with the facts, use the Bible as a scientific resource, and, yes, torture children with electricity. The New York Times reports that the school district started the procedure to fire Freshwater back on June 2008 because he burned crosses into […]

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Bearly Political

Filed in National by on December 26, 2009 5 Comments

Nothing much the Teabaggers say or do these days really surprises me anymore. Their actions and words open up glimpses into their thought processes which is always intriguing albeit a touch scary sometimes. The latest teabagging episode was they got in an uproar over Build-a-Bear’s webisodes about globally warming. The LA Times writes: Conservative bloggers […]

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Late Night Video: Golden Retrievers Teach Science

Filed in National by on December 20, 2009 1 Comment

These are smart dogs!

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Bulo Remembers 2009-The Best in Science, i.e. ‘The Cool Stuff’

Filed in National by on December 5, 2009 2 Comments

OK, a confession. Science class was where I caught up on my sleep in high school. Guess I always intuited that ‘other people’ could handle the ‘science thing’ much better than I ever could. And they have. Today, I proudly present the Popular Science (aka ‘Science for Dummies’?) Best of What’s New List. 100 innovations to […]

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Happy Origin Day!

Filed in National by on November 24, 2009 19 Comments
Happy Origin Day!

One hundred fifty years ago today Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species was published. It is arguably the most important scientific work ever published. It was the product of painstaking scientific observation. Darwin was not only a scientist’s scientist, he was a great writer and populizer of science. It’s amazing to consider that Origin […]

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