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Indonesian activity (other than Anak Krakatau), tsunamis threat to Dominica, science versus politics in the Canary Islands and satellite images.

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 […]

More than 50 years after the publication of CP Snow’s seminal Two Cultures, interdisciplinary partnerships between science and other academic “cultures” are being urged once again. Today, the focus is […]

The Kuril Islands are chock full o’ volcanoes, most of which I only become familiar with because they erupt. Add Ebeko to that last – see why!

Now that Redoubt has decided that Yellow/Advisory is not to its likely and has returned to an Orange/Watch status, I’ll continue bringing new updates of the volcano has events unfold. […]

The Eyjafjallajökull eruption has become more explosive over the last day, prompting new closures of airspace over Ireland and the UK.

All eyes will be on Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland as it begins to show signs that an eruption might be in the works.

Afters months of waiting, I have finally been able to get my act together enough to post the answers to questions you posed to Dr. Adam Kent. If you remember […]

Changing the conversation about climate change: Graduate students from American and George Mason Universities prepare interview tent on the National Mall. WASHINGTON, DC — How do Americans respond when they […]

One paper in the special issue proposes strategies for catalyzing greater collaboration on climate change communication among the “four cultures.” The August issue of the journal Frontiers in Ecology and […]

Is it possible that it is not yet boring to talk about the end of books, the end of literature, the increasingly (at once obsessive and trite) making rare of […]

Do you have to be religious to see a face in burnt toast? Probably not, but believers are more likely to attribute such a face to Jesus (1). Believer in […]

Barbara Boxer appeared on Bill Moyers last week, providing fresh insight into her relationship with James Inhofe as well as the strategic appeal that turned GOP Senator John Warner into […]

5,000,000 Hits n Thirty hits – that’s how many this blog accumulated for the whole of September 2006, the first month of its existence. The numbers for October were a bit better – […]

Friday’s IPCC report represents history’s most definitive statement of scientific consensus on climate change, yet despite the best efforts of scientists, advocates, and several media organizations to magnify wider attention […]

Is Mary Beth Williams playing madlibs with “…feminist trailblazer”? That would explain her post entitled “Goodbye Cathy, feminist trailblazer”. The “Cathy” in question is Cathy Guisewite’s syndicated strip about a […]

On Sunday, Discovery Channel’s Ted Koppell returned to his old network home to appear on ABC News This Week. Koppell was on the round table panel in part to promote […]

Part 1 of Eruptions Etna Week with guest blogger Dr. Boris Behncke – everything you ever wanted to know about the Sicilian volcano!

Etna Week continues with Part 2 of guest blogger Dr. Boris Behncke’s look at Mt. Etna, including the unstable flanks, its eruptive behavior over the last 400 years and changes at the summit.

As we’ve all learned in school, 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, only 30% is solid ground. What if everything was reversed? What if every land mass […]

Today marks the ten year anniversary of the birth of the cloned sheep Dolly, and the anniversary comes as Congress debates various bills impacting funding for embryonic stem cell research […]

Be glad they don’t have coffee-tables in the Tube, métro, subway and U-Bahn, otherwise you wouldn’t have any excuse not to take this book with you on your subterranean peripatations. […]

Everything you ever wanted to know about Mt. Hood in Oregon (well, maybe not everything, but a lot), the second in my “Volcano Profiles” series.

The Maine Solar System Model recreates the relative distances between the sun and planets along a stretch of U.S. Highway 1

Glenn Beck’s appeal is that he makes it all look so easy. I mean, all you have to do is wave your American flag, pledge allegiance to God (the white […]

In a now famous skit from Saturday Night Live, William Shatner told a room full of Trekkies to “get a life.” Like Shatner, highbrows tend to dismiss fan culture as […]

If you listen to the entire video of Shirley Sherrod’s infamous NAACP remarks, somewhere around the 14 minute mark, your stomach will start to curdle as you hear her describe […]

This map beautifully captures the changeable course of the Big River

The ‘bloodless’ Aroostook War is variously said to have cost the life of a cow, a pig, or a single U.S. private.

An Amazon product review with ellipsis … like this … and a lot of extra punctuation??!? That is, like, so likely to be sincere. I totally mean that, except that […]