Lincoln Was An Atheist
Unless he gets hit by a bus, Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican nominee and be given the opportunity to lose in the election this fall. read...
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Should Science Subsidize Basket Weaving?
Two decades after colleges got politicians to declare a college education a 'right' (fuzzy correlation/causation statistics showing a college education meant higher lifetime earnings made that part easy), schools that have put up lots of new buildings and had the culture turn on them due to bits of high-profile chicanery like charging $89,000 for a two-year program in "environmental journalism",...
read moreNDRC Hydrologist Comments On Pavillion, Wyoming Well Contamination
The National Resources Defense Council, the Wyoming Outdoor Council, Sierra Club and the Oil and Gas Accountability Project commissioned hydrologist Dr. Tom Myers to review the EPA’s draft statement on well contamination in Pavillion, Wyoming, and are submitting his work to the EPA as technical comments. The EPA draft is available for public comment through October 2012 and then the data...
read moreAstronomer Sir Patrick Moore: "The only good Kraut is a dead Kraut"
Are there any Nazis still left living? If so, British astronomer Sir Patrick Moore is not a fan.To mark the 55th anniversary of his astronomy TV show "The Sky At Night", Moore let an interviewer know what he really thinks about Britain's old enemy (and, ironically, the heritage of their current monarch), decades after his fiancée was killed by a Nazi bomb.
read moreChasing Venus – The Race To Measure The Heavens In The 18th Century
On June 5th and 6th, you will be able to witness a true once-in-a-lifetime event. Venus will pass across the face of the Sun - for about six hours, it will appear as a small black dot on the Sun's surface. It won't happen again until 2117.Transits of Venus occur only when Venus and the Earth are in a line with the Sun. At other times Venus passes below or above the Sun because the two orbits...
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