In her fantastic article in Nature Magazine, Dr. Gretchen T. Goldman (pictured) writes, “Cuts to science advisory panels for federal agencies will haunt the United States long after the current administration finishes.” She continues:
Category: Renewables – Science
Making Government Stupid
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Bill Gates Sets His Sights on Energy
Bill Gates is nobody’s fool. A college chum who went on to become one of Microsoft’s first 50 employees told me that, though Gates was always willing to make time for presentations from his staff, he took a very dim view …
Defending the Environment Requires Understanding Science
Does everyone at top levels of the federal government need a rock-solid understanding of science? Of course not. Nobody cares if the postmaster general flunked chemistry.
Is Trump’s Elimination of Science Advisory Boards “Nonsensical?”
Trump’s order to slash a number of science advisory boards blasted by critics as ‘nonsensical.’ From NBC News:
People Who Read A Lot of Books Are Way Nicer, Kinder and Empathetic
What determines who we are, how we think, and how we behave towards others? Why are some people more compassionate, and others more or less indifferent to the needs of other people?
Tagged with: self-described liberals and conservatives
Cleantech Powers the Developing World
Today’s LEDs are approximately 250 times more efficient (250 times more lumens per Watt) than those that first lighted Broadway in the late 19th Century. This has brought about some marvelous advantages, not only in terms of reduced power consumption, …
Talkin’ ‘Bout Science
I hope readers get the same broad smile from this as I did. Both of my kids, Jake and Valerie, could retire early if I had to pay them each a dollar every time I talked about the autumnal equinox, …
Tagged with: science
When Attacks Come from our Purported Friends
The only complaint that can be made about organic food is that it cannot be produced at prices and quantities such that it can be affordable for a world population soon to hit 10 billion people. Yet people don’t have …
Agricultural Department At Odds with Science and the Peer Review Process
Should the scientists working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, upon completion of the intense process of peer review, be forced to label their reports as “Preliminary?” Won’t this suggest to readers that such reports and the underlying research has …
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“Flooid Power” versus the Laws of Thermodynamics
Here’s Flooid Power, a renewable energy idea based on the claim, “(We use) energy generated by a force that’s not going away anytime soon–the gravity inherent in Earth’s mass. Flooid Power uses displacement and buoyancy to generate affordable, continuous electricity …
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