Category Archives: NASA

National Aeronautics & Space Agency

Broader Impacts of the Fact that NASA Suspends All Education and Public Outreach Update – NASA Watch

Effective immediately, all education and public outreach activities should be suspended, pending further review. In terms of scope, this includes all public engagement and outreach events, programs, activities, and products developed and implemented by Headquarters, Mission Directorates, and Centers across … Continue reading

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Reputable Scientists & Journalists Blow a Major Science Story

It’s well known that tropospheric warming causes stratospheric cooling, but somehow the BBC, Guardian, and New York Times don’t seem to know that: A huge hole that appeared in the Earth’s protective ozone layer above the Arctic in 2011 was the largest … Continue reading

Posted in Accountability, Climate Change, Environmental policy, NASA, Open Access, Peer Review, Public Pedagogy, Public Philosophizing, Sustainability, Risk Management, & Long-Term Security | 4 Comments

Innovation You Can Count On™

The rocket built by Orbital Sciences Corporation to launch NASA’s Glory satellite worked for three minutes this morning. Then it crashed into the Southern Pacific Ocean. This is the same corporation responsible for the demise of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory … Continue reading

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Post-Enlightenment Science Policy or:

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Unhealthy Skepticism. In the context of the federal budget debacle the Republican party is moving aggressively against the environmental regulation of commercial activities by intramurally debating how to legislatively restrict, defund, or … Continue reading

Posted in Accountability, Climate Change, Economics & STEM Research, Future of the University, Interdisciplinarity, NASA, NOAA, NSF, STEM Policy, Sustainability, Risk Management, & Long-Term Security, TechnoScience & Technoscientism, US Science Agencies | 2 Comments