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No Formal Post; Open Discussion
I have to travel and already the difficulties have begun. Let me just ask: Where are all the personal rocket ships we have been promised? I diligently read Astounding Science…
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NASA’s New Life, Global Warming Survey
Quick post today: busy with grading. NASA's Aliens You will have heard of NASA's press release, which all are characterizing as "redefining life as we know it." As I read…
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The United States of Diabetes?
More fun can be had with epidemiology than with any other branch of investigation. It's the only science whose practitioners regularly jump out from behind the bushes yelling Boo! And…
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Amazon Removes Buy Buttons, SUNY Albany Removes Departments
Amazon Removes Buy Buttons Amazon plays hardball with publishers, according to Onnesha Roychoudhuri writing in the Boston Review (HT to A&LD): This past January John Sargent, CEO of the publisher…
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Cornell’s Cancun Climate Conference Crew
"A delegation of Cornell researchers will join the fight against climate change Monday in the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico." So begins an article in the…
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Certified Hot!
No, not me, likely as that would be, but the slot machines at the Soaring Eagle Casinos. Thanks to the---can we call it anything else?---hot tip from long-time reader BillB,…
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The Great Global Warming Blunder by Roy W. Spencer
The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientists by Roy W. Spencer This book was given to me for review by the publisher. Clouds…
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Kids Who Play Video Games Take Longer To Fall Asleep Than Those Who Sit Quietly
This is a follow-up to the post Shocking Research: Kids Who Play Games, Watch TV, Text Don’t Read And Do Poorly At School. The original New York Times article quoted…
