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It seems incredible that Earthlings could be the first technological society. So where is everyone?
What does a modern Arctic explorer wear to work? And what does the modern explorer (mature male) do if he has to pee?
Point Barrow, a few miles north of the town, is the northern tip of the American continents. Except for some Canadian islands, all the Americas are behind you when you stand there. We have come to measure the ice. When you do research into climate change, you often wind up in places like this.
It isn’t that Sandy Island in the Coral Sea sank under the water like Atlantis. It appeared on Google Earth and on admiralty charts, and first was reported by a ship called the Velocity in 1876.
The scandal that is the anti-vaccination movement may have finally reached its nadir with news that the seminal paper linking childhood vaccinations to autism is a complete fake.
It was a lovely and rare evening. We are floating on our backs in the Chena Hot Springs naturally heated water. It’s March in interior Alaska. The air temperature was -20 F, but the water temperature was a steady 115. Wet hair above the water froze, a frosted crown around our heads, but the experience was oddly pleasant. Above us, sheets of green spread across the glowing indigo sky.
It has been suggested that someone go into the Wikipedia entry for the former Playboy Playmate and actress Jenny McCarthy and add to her credits a whooping cough epidemic in California that has killed nine kids. After all, if it were not for her and others like her in the anti-vaccination movement, there would be no whooping cough. McCarthy is one of the more active and famous proponents of the long-discredited belief that vaccinations causes autism. She has a son she says is autistic and blames early vaccination.
Science always gets in trouble when it tries to prove or disprove religion. Never stopped anyone from trying, of course. So, did Moses really lead the Israelites to safety walking across a parted Red Sea? You got the Charleton Heston image right?
Ten years ago, more than 200 municipalities in America dreamed of the Wired City where you could get broadband internet service anywhere, in the libraries, schools, on a park bench, sitting in your car. Parking meters would be wired, as … Continue reading →
The price of climate change isn’t just high temperatures and rising seas. It is cultural, political, economic and philosophical. Climate change has collateral damage. In December, the worst forest fire in Israel’s history destroyed 12,000 acres (4,800 hectares) of forest. … Continue reading →
The price of climate isn’t just high temperatures and rising seas. It is cultural, political, economic and philosophical. Climate change has collateral damage. In December, the worst forest fire in Israel’s history destroyed 12,000 acres (4,800 hectares) of forest. The … Continue reading →
One of nature’s great environmental battles, between two of the fiercest predators on the planet, may be playing out in the arctic, and one of those predators, the polar bear, could be the loser. As sea ice melts, the bears, … Continue reading →
If you are doing public opinion surveys in the upcoming mid-term elections, you might have this nagging feeling you are missing something and it could screw up your results. You may be. You may be missing people who have given … Continue reading →
It was a lovely and rare evening. We are floating on our backs in the Chena Hot Springs naturally heated water. It’s March in interior Alaska. The air temperature was -20 F, but the water temperature was a steady 115. … Continue reading →
It has been suggested that someone go into the Wikipedia entry for the former Playboy Playmate and actress Jenny McCarthy and add to her credits a whooping cough epidemic in California that has killed nine kids. After all, if it … Continue reading →
Science always gets in trouble when it tries to prove or disprove religion. Never stopped anyone from trying, of course. So, did Moses really lead the Israelites to safety walking across a parted Red Sea? You got the Charleton Heston … Continue reading →
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