Gamers are good for something, after all
Very good indeed. The human mind is still pretty ingenious.
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Rick Perry, Galileo, and the AGW true believers
I’ve got an article at PJ about all of the above.
Continue reading →Sperm donors may win biological sweepstakes
For all of humankind’s history, men have been rivals for the favors of women, and a huge part of that competition (at least in the biological sense) has been to foster the birth and survival of their own offspring. If … Continue reading →
Ann Coulter on the “gaps” in evolution
Ann Coulter is never one to shy away from stating the controversial, and this article of hers is no exception. She points out that, far from being a perfect theory, evolution does indeed have “gaps,” just as Rick Perry said … Continue reading →
The Obama adminstration versus the environmental scientist???
I can’t make a whole lot of sense of what’s happening here. But I know it sounds potentially interesting. Very: A federal wildlife biologist whose observation in 2004 of presumably drowned polar bears in the Arctic helped to galvanize the … Continue reading →
Humans on the planet
Erle C. Ellis, associate professor of geography and environmental systems at the University of Maryland, writes that we’re fully in the Anthropocene, a proposed term to describe an era in which the environment has been heavily influenced by humankind: Earth’s … Continue reading →
So, if scientists couldn’t even foresee…
…the effects of the oil spill on the Gulf, how are they going to figure out what’s going on with climate change? [ADDENDUM: Actually, there were a few lonely voices saying fairly early on that the spill would naturally repair … Continue reading →
More tremors in the forcefield: George Monbiot has some doubts
There seems to be a lot of this change stuff going around—or at least, potential change. George Monbiot—the liberal environmentalist Brit who gave his name to “moonbat”—has had what I’ve come to think of as the betrayal experience. But I’ll … Continue reading →
What about that Japanese water?
We’ve been hearing a lot about radioactive water in Japan: dangerous for babies, thyroid cancer. What parent wouldn’t be panicked? Almost nowhere do we read answers to the following rather mundane and obvious questions: how are the standards for levels … Continue reading →
The effect of the Japan disaster
This AP article just may be the stupidest article on the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that I’ve read so far. Anyone who never realized that industrialized, organized, complex nations are most vulnerable of all to such threats simply does not … Continue reading →
Crichton: “Aliens Cause Global Warming”
Here’s another excellent Crichton speech, well worth reading. [Hat tip: commenter “IgotBupkis.”]
Continue reading →Chernobyl and Fukushima: how do we define “disaster?”
We’ve been hearing the word “disaster” in connection with the nuclear reactors in Japan, usually in the context of phrases such as, “Japanese teams work mightily to avoid looming disaster.” But what is the definition of a disaster these days? … Continue reading →