Toxicity and GM Food January 13, 2010
Genetically modified food was declared too safe to label years ago. Greenpeace has been fighting to have Monsanto’s original data released. Their RoundUp [...]
Archive of posts related to science
The color of night November 1, 2009
Really. That would be the general color of the night sky if the universe wasn’t expanding. You’ve probably never wondered why the night [...]
Be afraid. Be very afraid. October 10, 2009
History shows that . . .
[CO2] Levels similar to those now commonly regarded as adequate to tackle climate change were associated with sea levels 25-40m [...]
It’s Bilby Day! September 12, 2009
Few things are more worth celebrating than bilbies, and the second Sunday in September is their day. It’s now nearly 7 AM on Sunday [...]
Mt. Wilson and the fire September 9, 2009
The last couple of weeks, the world in all of Greater Los Angeles has looked like this:
I’m 70 miles further west. The skyscrapers would [...]
The underweight brain August 27, 2009
Okay, I give up. Dealing with the media’s breathless messes when reporting on science feels like an endless game of whack-a-mole, and I’d decided [...]
Biology, Caster Semenya, Athletics, and Ignorance August 25, 2009
With the continuing flap over Caster Semenya, it may be interesting to get some background on the biology involved. A recent article I saw [...]
We all have one-track minds August 24, 2009
As a person who can only do one thing at a time (if that), all I have to say is: HA!
BBC | Multitaskers bad [...]
This is how the world ends August 18, 2009
Not with a financial collapse. Not with death by insurance company. Those are all just human disasters. We hear them loud and [...]
I told you so: negawatts work August 3, 2009
Not only have I told you so, repeatedly, but so did everybody else who’s capable of coming up with four when adding two plus two, [...]
Time-wasting Nerd Fun May 18, 2009
I haven’t got much done these last few days. I’ve been too busy watching the Nasa TV live feed from the Hubble servicing mission.
Click [...]
Condemned to Repeat? May 11, 2009
Ecological disaster bad enough to destroy people has happened before. The only difference was the limited technology of the times, and therefore the limited [...]
Swine flu: here we go again April 26, 2009
update below
The news is spreading everywhere: Mexico flu ‘a potential pandemic’. In the next few days we’ll probably have a replay of the bad [...]
The Search for ET Intelligence April 24, 2009
Actually, what I’m about to discuss is the search for ET life, but you have to start somewhere and it’s getting more clear by the [...]
Plants can make global warming worse April 18, 2009
Some of the codswallop on what to do about global warming — okay, ALL of the codswallop — is driving me nuts. Nuts, I [...]
Ada Lovelace Day March 24, 2009
The BBC reminds me that it’s time to give a tip of the hat to one of history’s greats.
Augusta Ada Byron was born in 1815, [...]
Science-related, at least to me (pre-2008 list)
- Nukes can never be the answer. Nuclear plants can't supply enough energy to stop global warming, but they can kill the planet. Also posted at Shakesville, with lively comments thread).
- Profits cost us cures
- Stem Cells: science and ethics. Also posted in three parts at Shakesville, Part 1, with links to 2 and 3.
- Female genital mutilation
- Tuberculosis: the problem we could have avoided
- When is a drug not a drug?
- Science Goes to the Movies. Rant against unnecessary stupidity in fiction.
- pitfalls of Windows, including MS ability to shut down your computer. ubuntu as an alternative.
- Global Warming
- You can't believe in evolution
- A Choice or a Child?
- Aug. 28, 2007, Lunar Eclipse as seen from my garden.
- Meet the relatives: sea squirts
- Global warming: links to rebut deniers
- Hero Rats. There are times when I think people really will make it.
- Our Government (Not) At Work Substituting people-destroying methyl iodide for ozone-destroying methyl bromide as an agricultural fumigant. Those are not our only choices!
- Germs taken to space come back deadlier
- Zombie (amoebae) like global warming
- Paper Stirling engine
- Carbon nanotech paper batteries
- Bush admin is for fraud. Really.
- Russians boast about a "Father of all Bombs".
- Taleban pulls ahead of US Their leaders seem to be capable of using solar technology. Ours ....
- Genetics may explain 3 IQ points of intelligence.
- Now I've heard everything (About re-shaping genitalia).
- Ten minute cancer test
- Old signs of life on Mars? (Not, as it turns out.)
- Science-ish links, 2007-09-20 Fossil evidence that warmer bogs exhale methane, another greenhouse gas. Chronic fatigue syndrome may be caused by an intestinal virus. A different white blood cell may be effective against cancer.
- Links to interesting data on the physics of levitation, on dinosaurs, and on muscle wasting disease.
- Science links, 2007-09-03 RFID chips in people. Sharpening telescope pictures from the OWL (Overwhelmingly Large Telescope ;-))
- Science links, 2007-09-01 Storing data on a single atom. A possible vaccine for multiple sclerosis. Engineered cells destroy amyloid plaques in mice. And finally, a cosmic crochet project.
