Only one reading tonight, but it's a doozy.
Geoff Ryman reads at University Book Store tonight. Ryman is a very popular sci-fi author. When it Changed: Science Into Fiction is an anthology of stories written by science fiction authors "in collaboration with scientists researching at the University of" [...]
Over the weekend, I published a column by North Idaho College student Connor DeVries/Sentinel, who was miffed that too many of his instructors used class time to discuss their personal politics. Quoth Connor: "I used to think that art classes and political science classes were two distinct things. This semester" [...]
Being an ignorant homeschooled kid, I used to think that art classes and political science classes were two distinct things. This semester showed me the error in my thinking. So many instructors spend their lecture time expounding their personal political philosophies that I'm beginning to think that a' [...]
Our future, our human future, is tied not to the stars but to bacteria:
ScienceDaily (Dec. 11, 2009) — Global climate change has prompted efforts to drastically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels.
In a new approach, researchers from the UCLA Henry [...]
There are so many events tonight—a book about the medical science of the TV show House, a book with photos of Puget Sound, a book about mass political murder, and a book about having an "explorer's garden" of invasive plants—but there are really only three events that [...]
The Christian Science Monitor reports:
ROME - Amanda Knox diplomatically tip-toed around the furore in the US over her 26-year-prison sentence for murdering her British flatmate, saying Tuesday that she felt she had received a fair trial but that she hoped the guilty verdict would be overturned on appeal...
..."The" [...]
Vegans! Why do humans live much longer than chimps—almost twice as long? The answer appears to be meat...
(Science News) In spite of their genetic similarity to humans, chimpanzees and great apes have maximum lifespans that rarely exceed 50 years. The difference, explains USC Davis School of Gerontology Professor [...]
Fabric arts get no respect because, well, they're so soft. Yarn and string and wool are less manly than oil paint, granite, and steel, less inviting of critical theory and gratuitous Adorno references. And yet, what's more rigorous and hard science-y than the periodic table of the elements? Take ...' [...]
Great question from the NYPost "No data = no science."
Their story strains credulity: Who'd toss out data critical to the idea that the earth is rapidly warming as a result of human activity —...
How much does a consensus cost? Well, we know that $94 billion per year will do it.
All those images Chris Jordan has made and all you can come up is this bank ad, Pacific Science Center?
Billboard at Denny and Eastlake
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[...]ScienceDaily reports:
A Université de Montréal entomologist is investigating a type of wasp (Dinocampus coccinellae) present in Quebec that forces ladybugs (Coccinella maculata) to carry their larvae. These wasps lay their eggs on the ladybug's body, a common practice in the insect world, yet they don't kill their [...]
Film
Burning Fuse FestivalAll this week at the Grand Illusion, it's Burning Fuse, a touring film festival composed of six documentaries, including Pussycat Preacher (a stripper turns evangelical), Sliding Liberia (Liberian surfers, brah!), Soldiers of Conscience (how we condition our children to bypass their morals and [...]
Sure they do. But why do they hang low? And why don't they hang lower? Why isn't your scrotum bright red? Why doesn't your scrotum have feathers? Science has the answer.
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' [...]All the people who rail against Republicans in general and Sarah Palin specifically for ignoring the facts (about abstinence-only education, about global warming and industrial pollution) should take a deep breath and actually read the science about breast-cancer screening.
The articles from the United States Preventive Services Task Force, published in [...]
