Smooth Patch Effect: Freddy Garcia Pitch Leads To New Physics Hypothesis
An April 29, 2011, a low split-finger fastball thrown by Yankees right-handed pitcher Freddy Garcia inspired a whole science study. read...
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Rachel Carson Wanted GMOs
"The formation of a new science of biotic controls,” predicted Rachel Carson in "Silent Spring" 50 years ago next month, was going to save us from pesticides.She was wrong that DDT would give you cancer if you sprayed it but she was right in believing that the future of agriculture rested solidly on genetic solutions to problems that chemicals were then solving.Why, then, are her intellectual...
read moreGoogle Earth Uncovers Lost Pyramids In Egypt
Archaeologists used to note for new students that the field was not the place where most work was done; the Indiana Jones perception of flying off to ancient, hidden ruins and outfoxing Nazis was just an adventure tale. Archeology instead was done in libraries, they said. The visiting and digging was the fun part after the work was done.Now they don't even need libraries; they have Google...
read moreIt’s Simple; Shale Gas Is Our Best Short-Term Climate Fix
Current policies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions are inadequate for dealing with the threat that they pose - for every emission that America alone reduced (and we have reduced a lot, we are back at 1992 levels) China added that and more, and India would also like to have air conditioning.Yet anyone who contends there has to be a hard stop on fossil fuels has basically eliminated themselves...
read moreContrarian View: Science Standards In School Won’t Help?
I will tell you a secret. The loudest partisan progressives, some even in the science community, can find a way to hate anything if a Republican is involved. So George Bush doubled NIH funding? He still hated biology, we were told. No Child Left Behind improved scores for minorities every year it was in effect and girls achieved math parity with boys for the first time in history....
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