I’ll be the first to admit that the cartoon isn’t for everyone, but it does have a couple of virtues: 1) It has nothing to do with the imploding U.S. presidency, and I figured readers could use a break from …
Category: Renewables – Science
The Truth Will Set You Free
Here’s an illustration of why it’s impossible for the Trump administration to suppress facts that stand in the way of their aims. The City of Chicago has posted on its website all the climate data that was deleted by the …
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From Guest Blogger Eileen O’Shanassy: Where Are Environmental Science Degrees Needed the Most?
For many people, their passion is the environment and natural world around them. If you love the outdoors and nature and want to do your part to help conserve the environment for future generations, getting a degree in environmental science, …
Analyzing the Resistance/Protest Movement
It’s always interesting to look at the ever-expanding number of disciplines in which the scientific community has created specialties.
Que Pasa Con La Environmental Protection Agency?
What are we to make of what’s going on in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)? Is it coincidence that we’ve seen the appointment of Scott Pruitt, career-long EPA enemy as its administrator, the removal/burying of references to climate change …
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Happy Birthday to the Integrated Circuit
It’s hard to know what our lives would be like without the integrated circuit, the basis for all the electronic gadgetry on which we have become to depend so intensely. In addition to all our goodies like cell phones and …
The New Yorker Takes Aim At Trump
There are so many unprecedented aspects of life today that it’s hard to count them all. At the core of most of them, however, is the fact that the most powerful person on Earth is a sociopath, and that a …
“Science” Means Something Very Specific
A particularly abrasive commenter notes on my post about the March for Science: What you are really saying is: “March for the Science I support!” Come on, dude; that’s not what I’m saying at all, and you know it. Science …
Supporting Science Is Hardly Controversial
A friend marvels at the enormous participation in the March for Science, wondering why this is so popular. My belief: Science is a pretty noncontroversial issue. I know there are hard-line religious zealots who don’t like the contradiction to various …
How To Embarrass Yourself: Argue Science with Scientists
Here’s a typical story, given the March for Science last weekend. It’s an example of how our society has come to accept totally illogical garbage, as long as it fits in with what we’d like to believe.
