Search Results

For those unable to attend next week’s talk at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, there is a call in number to listen to the presentation and discussion. See details […]

A perspective from Vanderbilt University professor John Greer: When a candidate goes on the offensive to show the harm in an opponent’s preferred policies or an inconsistency between an opponent’s […]

The 18th century French Neoclassical painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres played the violin well enough to hold his own with “Sold His Soul to the Devil” good musicians such as […]

 I used to work for a couple of small mortgage lenders a few years ago. We probably closed somewhere between 150 and 200 purchase and refi loans a month at […]

If I were Obama–I would have taken a different approach after hearing about the BP Oil Spill. 1. I would have removed BP from being in charge of this operation […]

Today I received the latest issue of Dartmouth Alumni magazine to discover inside an interesting poll of graduating seniors at my alma mater. Long branded a conservative campus–with notable right […]

“Maybe it’s time waterbeds made a comeback.” The Atlantic wonders why the bed that once boasted a better sex life and (eventually) a good night’s sleep became so unpopular so fast.

Those decrying the death of the intellect, and the book, at the hands of the nefarious Internet would do well to recall that the printed page itself was once called the destroyer of education.

Lots of great shots of volcanoes from space and North Korea’s potentially restless giant.

A number of nice images of volcanic plumes have been posted by the NASA Earth Observatory crew – along with some terrestrial images of the plume from Soufriere Hills.

Low weight at birth is associated with all sorts of health troubles later in life, so it seems a great idea to give nutritional supplements to pregnant women in developing […]

I recently received copies of two relatively newedited volumes on science communication and public engagement. The volumes include research and perspectives from an interdisciplinary collection of mostly European scholars. I […]

I’m still playing catch-up from the field trip, but there is a pile of news – mostly research-related rather than new eruptions – so I thought I’d whip up a […]

At the age of 14, amidst poverty and famine, a Malawian boy by the name of William Kamkwamba built a windmill from scrap to power his family’s home. Living on […]

Yesterday, the LA Times ran a feature describing separate communication efforts by the American Geophysical Union and a small band of climate scientists-turned-activists.  The effort by AGU seeks to engage […]

“If the people who brought us television had played by the same rules that today’s wireless carriers impose – we’d probably all be listening to the radio,” Ryan Singel claims.

When I first launched my blog in March, you may remember me writing about a blog post entitled “IMAX Hubble 3D & The James Webb Space Telescope.” The new telescope […]

I got an email from an editor at a major black-oriented website last week, asking me if I would write a rush article on Charles Rangel the same Thursday afternoon […]

With Redoubt and Tongan eruptions in full swing, Yellowstone has decided to join the eruptive fun.

Big Think salutes 10 women who have made inroads in professions that have traditionally been the province of men.

Over at the liberal blog site Daily Kos, the anonymous “Dark Syde” reviews the book Unscientific America. The review, unfortunately, echoes the all-too-common “fall from grace narrative” about the place […]

The National Academies is doing some preliminary pilot research on a new communication initiative. As part of that process, they want to find out what science blogs readers think are […]

Similar to Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal was heralded by conservatives as offering the belief credentials to be Vice President.Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was interviewed by the Sunday NY Times magazine. […]

That’s the plan here in the nation’s capital. From today’s Washington Post: Beginning in October, 3,000 students at 14 middle schools will be eligible to earn up to 50 points […]

At Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School on Monday, about fifty faculty and students turned out for the lunch time seminar on Framing Science. The Q&A generated traditional questions but also a […]

You can debate the validity of these metrics endlessly. You can question whether citations and pubs are the best indicators of university quality and impact, and you can deliberate over […]

Despite what the brainiacs from the Ivy League say, citizen’s arrests are not vigilante acts, according to Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa.  In fact, he insists that they have been […]

Using connections he’d made living with the Mujahideen in the 1980s, Van Dyk set out to discover the relationship between the Taliban and Al Qaeda, but ambition and deadlines pushed […]

Bill Gates argues that private enterprise is insufficient to meet our renewable energy goals; public funds are best suited for critical research and development.

Expect to hear a lot about this from the Obama campaign over the next few weeks. See the front page article at today’s Washington Post, detailing McCain’s reaction to the […]