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Fact or Friction: Slow Earthquakes So-called "slow" or "silent" earthquakes slip so softly they don't even show up on regular seismographic equipment.
The Demise of Climate Denialist and Fake Nobel Laureate/British Royal Christopher Monkton Potholer54 has written a letter to Monkton that you will want to read, and he's also made a video that you will want to see. First the letter (from here):...
Earth Day 2012 Finds Kids Ready to Do Their Part, Says Author Seymour Simon Planet Earth -- that fragile blue marble in space that we call home -- deserves better from all of us, I think we would agree.
Huffpo Science - already slipping into anti-science Our initial optimism over Huffpo science being a haven for reason in a den of disease-promotion and quackery appears now...
Don Shelby Shifts his Base The Walter Cronkite of the Twin Cities, Emmy Award Winning news anchor Don Shelby, retired a couple of years ago and started writing for the excellent local news blog MinnPost. Shelby's articles were always excellent and on point, and he often wrote about climate change...
Why am I not surprised? James Inhofe, the ridiculous climate change denier, appeared on the Rachel Maddow show and made a series of ridiculous claims. Among them was the claim that those wacky environmentalists were greatly outspending the entire energy industry on propaganda. Wait,...
Climate Change Fight: Keystone and Subsidies (Bill McKibben) Bill McKibben shares a message with the 350 community about what we've done so far, and the plan for the months ahead. Our next big fight: taking on the billions in subsidies that the fossil fuel industry makes....
One Year After Fukushima, a Startup Named Kurion Continues to Shed Light on What it Means to Live in the Nuclear Age When searching for a prime, real-life example of how science and technology are making a difference in the world right now, my thoughts lately turn to a small but feisty greentech startup that you may never have heard of: Kurion, Inc.
Why is the Far Side of the Moon Always Far? The explanation as to why we always see the Man in the Moon - that is, why we only see one side - is that tidal forces caused the Moon to slow its spin until it reached the present point.
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Sahara Forest plan: man-made oasis in Qatar desert based on camel nostrils.
The True Steel of the Ancestors The amount of radioactive isotopes in the atmosphere has increased, and these get into steel, making it weakly radioactive when air is blown into the furnace.
Launching Weather Balloons in 45-mile-per-hour Winds Atmospheric scientist Ernie Lews recently returned from a preliminary "cruise" from L.A. to Hawaii and back aimed at assessing conditions for deploying meteorological instruments aboard a cargo ship for a year-long climate study.
CSPI overblows the cancer risk of caramel coloring in soda The safety of soda has been in the news a lot lately. The news even seems bad for diet coke,...
Watch James Hansen's TED talk I think it's a nice, succinct description of the problem of climate change from one of the leaders of the...
in Michael Mann's words Michael Mann, co-author of the "hockey stick" visualization of the last millennium of global warming, has written a book about the trials of sticking to the science in an era when half the country is hostile to reality. Here's the...
Michael Mann: Evil Mastermind or Distinguished Scientist? Quite possibly Pete Sinclair's best and most important videos yet. Click here to get more background from Peter Sinclair's site. The post refers to this book: The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines...
"Witch hunt" against climate scientist blocked Climate scientist Michael Mann's private e-mails and research notes will remain private, thanks to a ruling by the Virginia Supreme Court. "Virginia's highest court has ruled that Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli cannot compel the University of Virginia to turn over records dealing with the work...
The predictability of and variation in wind energy Wind power is like Ginger Rogers. You know what I mean. It isn't judged by the same standards as other kinds of electricity generation. Click here to visit an interactive guide to wind power in Minnesota. I'm speaking specifically of the reliabilityof, or variation in,...
The Antarctica Files: Invasive species Posted on: January 11, 2011 12:00 PM, by ERV:Before were allowed to do ANYTHING on Antarctica, we had a lecture on what we could and could not do while we were visiting. Even though everyone was ecologically conscientious, there were...
Another Week of GW News, March 4, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup...
"30 Rock" Meets Icy Finger of Death This undersea video looks like science fiction showing an icy finger of death killing everything in its path, but is a stunning portrayal of freezing point depression - with narrative by the inimitable Alec Baldwin of "30 Rock" fame...
Heartland-1 ... NCSE-0 So, it turns out that Heartland was behind the Heartland leak after all. The evidence seems to suggest that Heartland's Joe Bast wrote a memo, then he and/or Heartland-symp blogger Steven Mosher sent it secretly to Peter Gleick. Peter Gleick then obtained additional material from...
Climate Science Denial at Carleton University: A Detailed Take-Down A report detailing an audit of a course called "Climate Change: An Earth Sciences Perspective" (ERTH 2402), taught at Carleton University, has been compiled by a team of concerned individuals and was released a few minutes ago. From the report:...
“This is not the realm of speculation. It's hard-core interdisciplinary research topic: glacier mass-balance temporal trends and crustal deformation geophysics that may influence multiple processes underlying volcanic activity and earthquake rupture periodicity and return periods.” Passerby on A quick note on thawing ice caps and volcanism
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Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:
Pharyngula May 30, 2007
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Discovering Biology in a Digital World July 2, 2006