Jan 1st 10
Foundation Beyond Belief Official Launch
Looking for an exceptionally worthwhile charity to support this year? Check out the Foundation Beyond Belief, which is officially launching today. Founder Dale McGowan, the author of Parenting...
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Dec 23rd 09
Climate Literacy Primer
Via The Intersection blog, Chris Mooney made me aware of a great brochure (pdf) from NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, that gives some basic climate science literacy...
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Dec 21st 09
Oh, yes. I’ve heard this before.
Homer’s reaction pretty much sums up the climate change denialists’ behavior.
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Dec 21st 09
What if it’s a big hoax!?
As PZ Myers said, “Isn’t this what the global warming debate is actually all about?”
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Dec 17th 09
Megan’s Future Past
(This was written back in November of 2001, about 7 months after my daughter was born.)
Becoming the father of my daughter was a pretty big moment in my life. Ok, that’s an understatement....
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Dec 11th 09
Tim Minchin – Storm
I saw this months ago, but listened to it again and wanted to share it.
Tim Minchin performs his beat poem titled “Storm.” Don’t let “beat poem” put you off. This...
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Dec 11th 09
The Satisfying Purity of Indignation
From Obama’s Nobel acceptance speech (emphasis mine)…
The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know...
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Dec 11th 09
How is ClimateGate like Creationism?
The “ClimateGate” email “scandal” about climate change reminds me very much about the manufactured controversy about evolution and Charles Darwin. How so?
In the case...
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Dec 10th 09
Who to believe?
“Who to believe on climate change mystery: scientists or conservative pundits?”
- Josh Marshall
It seems like the answer should be obvious.
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Dec 9th 09
Good advice
Some excellent graphical advice to assist in achieving the happiness you desire.
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Dec 9th 09
Global Warming, Deniers, and "ClimateGate"
Great editorial by Chris Mooney on the Science Progress blog about global warming and the deniers’ campaign to discredit the real science that supports it.
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Dec 9th 09
Copenhagen climate change conference
Copenhagen climate change conference: ‘Fourteen days to seal history’s judgment on this generation’
This Guardian editorial calling for action from world leaders on climate...
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The sands of time are running out for the central star of this the Hourglass Nebula. With its nuclear fuel exhausted, this brief, spectacular, closing phase of a sun-like star's life occurs as its outer layers are ejected and its core becomes a cooling, fading white dwarf. In 1995, astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to make a series of images of planetary nebulae, including the one above. Here, delicate rings of colorful glowing gas (nitrogen-red, hydrogen-green, and oxygen-blue) outline the tenuous walls of the 'hourglass.' The unprecedented sharpness of Hubble's images revealed surprising details of the nebula ejection process and may resolve the outstanding mystery of the variety of complex shapes and symmetries of planetary nebulae. Image Credit: NASA, WFPC2, HST, R. Sahai and J. Trauger (JPL)
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The sands of time are running out for the central star of this the Hourglass Nebula. With its nuclear fuel exhausted, this brief, spectacular, closing phase of a sun-like star's life occurs as its outer layers are ejected and its core becomes a cooling, fading white dwarf. In 1995, astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to make a series of images of planetary nebulae, including the one above. Here, delicate rings of colorful glowing gas (nitrogen-red, hydrogen-green, and oxygen-blue) outline the tenuous walls of the 'hourglass.' The unprecedented sharpness of Hubble's images revealed surprising details of the nebula ejection process and may resolve the outstanding mystery of the variety of complex shapes and symmetries of planetary nebulae. Image Credit: NASA, WFPC2, HST, R. Sahai and J. Trauger (JPL)
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