We all know that time flies when you’re having fun. In a previous blog entry, I pointed out that when you are involved in something engaging the time seems to rocket by, even though that same event may feel long when you look back on it. The flip side, of course, is that boring events [...]
Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Monday in an interview with the Sarasota Herald-Tribune that the state does not need more anthropologists. As it turns out, his daughter has a degree in anthropology. “Is it a vital interest of the state to have more anthropologists? I don’t think so,” Scott said. He told the Sarasota paper [...]
Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman revived an attack on rival GOP candidate Rick Perry over his stance on evolution and climate change over the weekend. Huntsman called the Texas governor’s views on science “out of the mainstream.” “If you’re going to run from climate science, if you’re going to run from other mainstream scientific principles, [...]
On a summer evening in June 2005, Susan Wallace-Babb went out into a neighbor’s field near her ranch in Western Colorado to close an irrigation ditch. She parked down the rutted double-track, stepped out of her truck into the low-slung sun, took a deep breath, and collapsed, unconscious. A natural gas well and a pair [...]
Anyone who equates myth with superstition would claim that we live in a world that has gone beyond mythology. Science is proud of vanquishing superstition, and a certain vocal contingent of atheists use science to bolster their belief that God is pure superstition. However, mythology is harder to vanquish that that. It crops up in [...]
Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman revived an attack on rival GOP candidate Rick Perry over his stance on evolution and climate change over the weekend. Huntsman called the Texas governor’s views on science “out of the mainstream.” “If you’re going to run from climate science, if you’re going to run from other mainstream scientific principles, evolution [...]
Jargon-busting Bad Science columnist Ben Gold acre has launched a new travel resource featuring short trips with a sciencey, or just plain nerdy, bent. Nerdydaytrips.com is full of relatively easy to reach destinations including the Museum of Electricity, Dorset, the Planetarium at Greenwich, Bletchley Park and the Denge sound mirrors. More farflung attractions include the Orkney wireless [...]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — An international group of scientists says science and education are key to rebuilding Haiti from last year’s crippling earthquake. The American Association for the Advancement of Science says in a report that science education should be provided both in and outside schools. The study also urges scientists from outside Haiti to lay [...]
As the GOP candidates jockey their way toward the presidential nomination, they continue to create new litmus tests for what makes a worthy pick. The top contenders have to loathe government. They have to hate health care reform. And most deny the reality of climate change. Most of these benchmarks have their roots in ideological [...]
Standing on the capitol steps on a crisp and partly sunny January 20, 2009, newly-minted president Barack Obama said he would “restore science to its rightful place” — what had been a part of the mission statement of Science Debate 2008, the nonprofit grassroots initiative to get the candidates for president to debate the nation’s top [...]
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