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Misconceptions About Global Warming: The Video
Posted by Greg Laden on September 22, 2014 
Free Climate Change and Energy Book Chapter
Posted by Greg Laden on September 22, 2014 
I recently reviewed Climate Smart and Energy Wise by Mark McCaffrey. The National Center for Science Education is giving away a free chapter, as a PDF, of this book. CLICK HERE TO GET IT. Also, there is an event coming up. CLEAN Call: Climate Smart & Energy Wise Book Preview with Mark McCaffrey. Click through…
The Edge of the Sky by Roberto Trotta
Posted by Chad Orzel on September 22, 2014 I get a fair number of books to review, but I’m often pretty bad about writing them up in a timely manner. Of course, most of them are well over 70 pages long, which is why I’ve managed to turn around Roberto Trotta’s The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the…
Shift work: Marketing medication for symptoms instead of addressing the hazard
Posted by Elizabeth Grossman on September 22, 2014 That people who work nights have their sleep cycles thrown out of balance has serious consequences but urging a potentially habit-forming, psychoactive drug on an economically stressed, overworked workforce, would seem to be a symptom, at the minimum, of a pharmaceutical industry gone awry. Shouldn’t we instead be figuring out how to reduce the occupational health risks of work schedules?
Entrance Music
Posted by Chad Orzel on September 22, 2014 The AV Club had a Q&A last week asking “What would be your entrance music?” As a music fan and a sports junkie this is, of course, a nearly irresistable question, though a lot of other things got in the way before I could get around to typing up an answer. I’ve always kind of…
Don’t Blame The Tea-Bagger 13% On Me
Posted by Martin Rundkvist on September 22, 2014 The Sweden Democrats (SD) is a racist populist party that got 13% of the vote in the recent Swedish parliamentary election. They got into Parliament four years ago at the expense of the Labour Party. This time around they more than doubled their support at the expense of the Conservative Party, who lost a precarious…
Medicine of the past versus the present: Star Trek versus The Knick
Posted by Orac on September 22, 2014 Regular readers know that I’ve been a big Star Trek geek (more or less) ever since I first discovered reruns of the original Star Trek episodes in the 1970s, having been too young (but not by much!) to have caught the show during its original 1966-1969 run. True, my interest waxed and waned through the…
Steve McIntyre Misrepresents Climate Research History
Posted by Greg Laden on September 22, 2014 
Who is Steve McIntyre? From DeSmogBlog.com: Stephen McIntyre has been a long-time mining industry executive, mostly working on the “stock market side” of mining exploration deals. He published a blog called Climate Audit where he attempts to analyse in sometimes long and extensive detail the work of climate change scientists where he documents “statistical mistakes”…
Climate Science Ice Bucket Challenge The Complete Collection
Posted by Greg Laden on September 21, 2014 
I am going to try to keep all the climate science ice bucket challenges here as they occur. At present there are quite a few individuals who have not yet answered the challenge. I’m sure they will. Some of them, in the Northern Hemisphere, may be waiting for it to get colder so the act…
Comments of the Week #28: The end of the Universe, world, and one wonderful dog
Posted by Ethan on September 21, 2014 
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” -Sylvia Plath It’s been two weeks since our last edition of our Comments of the Week, and from the heartbreaking to the mystifying, there’s a lot we’ve written about and explored together. If you missed…
Weekend Diversion: The Greatest Chatroulette of All Time (Synopsis)
Posted by Ethan on September 21, 2014 
“I created this project for fun. Initially, I had no business goals with it. I created this project recently. I was and still am a teenager myself, that is why I had a certain feeling of what other teenagers would want to see on the Internet. I myself enjoyed talking to friends with Skype using…
The Pleasure of Working Things Through
Posted by Chad Orzel on September 21, 2014 My bedtime reading for the past week or so has been Steven Gould’s Exo (excerpt at Tor). This is the fourth book in the Jumper series (not counting the movie tie-in novel), and ordinarily wouldn’t be worth much of a review, because if you haven’t read the first three, this book won’t make a lick…
Humans have caused more than 100% of climate change over last 50 years
Posted by Greg Laden on September 20, 2014 
Sounds funny, doesn’t it? Let me rephrase. Humans have caused so much climate change that some of the climate change changed some of the climate back. Still sounds kinda funny. OK, try again: Humans have caused a whole bunch of global warming. Nature has caused a small amount of global cooling, which has offset a…
Baby Cries Cause Concern For Mothers Of Other Species
Posted by Greg Laden on September 20, 2014 
It has long been known by humans that female mammals can be attracted with the call of a young in distress. There is a famous documentary film of the Hadza, a foraging group in Tanzania, in which this method is used by young boys to trap Dasssies (rock Hyrax). First you catch a baby Dassie…
