Science Tries To Figure Out Why The Southeast USA Is Not Warming
When you look at the warming over North America in the past century, the southeast USA stands out as an exception. In some cases it has actually cooled. Meteorologist Gene Norman told me about a piece...
View ArticleHuman Hand Powered Flashlight
Anne Makosinski of Victoria, BC Canada has made a human powered flashlight that runs on the heat of the human hand.She is one of 15 finalists in the Google science fair. I’m impressed. You should be too.
View ArticleOsprey Research
Spotted this pic and story on the Maryland DOT Facebook page. Worth sharing! CHESAPEAKE BAY OSPREY STUDY – Rebecca Lazarus of the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center pauses Monday while monitoring an...
View ArticleYou DO Know About Star Talk- Don’t You???
Neil de Grasse Tyson is the only person I know of who deserves a fan club. He has one on Google Plus too! His Star Talk podcasts are excellent ways of learning more about science and astrophysics....
View ArticleBaltimore Weathercaster Under Fire For Incorrect Statements on Climate Change
Two weeks ago I attended a climate change short course at the 41st American Meteorological Society conference on broadcast meteorology in Nashville. Top experts in the field like Dr. Tony Broccolli,...
View ArticleSome Thought Provoking Science Videos
I thought I’d share some cool science videos for your weekend amusement. The first is from It’s OK to Be Smart. If you’ve never done your own scale model of the solar system, it’s well worth a visit to...
View ArticleBrian Cox: Reaching Conclusions Based On Evidence- Why A Public Understandng...
…and why it is not acceptable to promote bad science
View ArticleFascinating Theory On Life’s Origins Getting NASA’s Attention and Money
This press release from the Institute for Genomic Biology at the Univ. of Illinois (Champagne-Urbana) is well worth a read. NASA thinks this is so important, they gave the scientists 8 million USD to...
View ArticleUnhappy Times In The Flat Earth Society
For anyone who cares about science and science education, it can seem very frustrating to realize how widespread certain myths are. Large numbers of Americans think that science is divided about the...
View ArticleThe World’s Roundest Object
Spotted this on Veritasium..watch and learn some very cool history of science.
View ArticleIt’s Geek Week On YouTube!
In honor of geek week on YouTube, and (so that you do not have to wade through all the crazy NASA, HAARP, and Chemtrail crazies) I thought I might post a selected number of really cool videos. Number...
View ArticleAGU Releases Updated Statement On Climate Change
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is a nonprofit organization of geophysicists, consisting of over 61,000 members from over 146 countries. AGU’s activities are focused on the organization and...
View ArticleHas The Political Divide Become A Scientific Divide as Well??
I can say from my own experience that at any science meeting 20 years ago, you would run across pretty much the same mix of political beliefs as you would by taking a random poll on the street. There...
View ArticleThese Three Facts Will Make You Think Like A Scientist
Critical thinking is harder than you think. Our minds are actually predisposed against it, but learning to reason is a necessity if you want to make good decisions. Failing to learn the basic skills of...
View ArticleAre Hurricane Season Forecasts Ready For Prime Time??
Weather and climate forecasts have value because decisions and plans can be made that save money, and (more importantly) lives. This is why so much research is underway into making an accurate...
View ArticleVoyager 1, Distance, and The CNN Salute
Last week’s news that Voyager 1 had become the first human made object to enter interstellar space gave almost everyone a pause, including me. I was a young and dumb freshman student at the University...
View ArticleHave You Seen These Pictures Of The Colorado Flooding?
The Atlantic has some amazing images of the flooding from various sources. Click the image below to see them. When you finish looking at those, read what my friend Bob Henson (at the National Center...
View ArticleThe Real Uncertainties In Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release its 5th assessment report next Friday in Sweden. It’s the work of over 200 scientists, who have put together a summary of the...
View ArticleCommunicating Science- My Talk at The AGU in Washington
I was asked a few months back to talk about science communication at the AGU in Washington, and they recorded the talk. You can watch it below. A note about the graph I showed from Skeptical Science....
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