This opinion piece presents proof that when put together in a mash-up of lefty-looney causes, it is possible for one bad idea plus another bad idea to result in an idea that is worse than just the sum of the two original bad ideas. First the backstory: our dear friends at the NHS over in […]
News comes that PE Obama has named Cass Sunstein as his regulatory czar. Mr. Sunstein is married to Samantha Power, the Obama foreign policy adviser who resigned in disgrace after calling Hillary Clinton a monster. Well, Ms. Power is back in the Obama fold as an adviser and her husband is being tapped to provide […]
Just a quick note that the science in is in! Free-range chickens are more likely to be diseased than those raised in cages. Wow. Ain’t that a kick in the teeth to all those soccer-moomies in their Volvo SUV’s who won’t buy anything but the most expensive piece of chicken at Whole Foods? I guess […]
Yes, Virgina, there is a “carbon cost” to reading this post. According to Alex Wissner-Gross, a fancy Haaavaaad physicist, you’re generating about .02g of CO2 per second reading a simple text page on the internet, like mine. You evil polluter.
While I suspect that the good doctor believes he’s doing a service to mankind, I strongly […]
Apparently the world would be better off without people. That’s the only conclusion one can reach after reading this load of crap, which was posted at Science Daily. It’s a story that was excerpted from the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment about how man-made light sources confuse addle and otherwise harm myriad species […]
I had seen this show teased in ads for the past couple of weeks and so I made a special point of tuning in. It was the History Channel’s Nostradamus: 2012 and purported to bring together the complex web of predictions regarding a world changing event on or about December 21, 2012. It’s not so […]
For anyone who is an avid science reader, this article isn’t really news, but for the vast majority of people in the world, this is probably the first time you’ve seen it. The quick overview of the story is that a group of researchers have found microscopic evidence from places scattered around the North American […]
This came up in conversation today at another blog. The reply below is an expanded version that I decided not to lay on the other person in that discussion because it was too much information.
So basically, what you’re saying is that we need to produce as much CO2 as we possibly can to keep the […]
On the National Geographic Channel last night, I watched a show about tectonic plate movements and how in some 250 million years the continents might pile back up into a supercontinent. Now, there have been several supercontinents that geologists have discovered and there seems to be a cycle in which supercontinents break apart and
reassemble. I […]
The European Union has commissioned a report that tells us that the loss of natural lands is a greater threat to the global economy than the current banking, stocks and credit crisis. Well, isn’t that special? It’s not enough that you’re scared to death over the deflation of your retirement savings; it’s not enough that […]
