Posted Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:57 PM ET | 0
Japan's whaling fleet left port for the Antarctic last week. Japanese authorities defended the hunt, as usual, as legitimate scientific research. I and others have dealt with that contention almost ad nauseam, and the basic outlines of the argument... Read more
Posted Thu Oct 29, 2009 03:26 PM ET | 0
I always had a hard time understanding why it was supposedly such a curse to be a vampire. First of all, you get to live forever - unless someone sticks a stake in your chest, and which of us can ... Read more
Posted Mon Oct 26, 2009 08:04 PM ET | 0
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog dissecting the shoddy science and selective statistical shenanigans behind the "global cooling" myth. Despite its shaky foundations, the myth - that since 1998, global temperatures have been steady or declining... Read more
Posted Wed Oct 21, 2009 03:57 PM ET | 0
Andrew Revkin of the New York Times recently penned an entry to his DotEarth blog that referenced a study by the London School of Economics, which concluded that "contraception is the greenest technology." Specifically, the study argued that meeting... Read more
Posted Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:40 AM ET | 0
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been at the center of a storm of controversy over its position on climate change lately. In August, it called for a public hearing on global warming that its senior vice president, William Kovacs, ... Read more
Posted Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:58 AM ET | 0
Parts of the Interwebs have been, for want of a better pun, all a-twitter in recent days over this video of what appears to be a spectacular glowing ring in the skies above Moscow. The video, which was shot last ... Read more
Posted Mon Oct 05, 2009 02:06 PM ET | 0
Mark Carwardine was until recently probably best known for Last Chance to See, a book (and accompanying BBC radio series) he co-authored with the late Douglas Adams, in which he and the best-selling author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the ... Read more
Posted Fri Oct 02, 2009 09:38 PM ET | 0
Watching George Will try to get to grips with the science of climate change is a little like watching a drunk trying to fit his keys into the lock. Oh, occasionally he'll get close, but you know that he doesn't ... Read more
Posted Sat Sep 26, 2009 06:23 PM ET | 0
Way back when, longer than I care to remember but probably around 1985 or so, I spent a week working as a volunteer research assistant at the famed BBC Natural History Unit. Even at 17, I was pretty sure I ... Read more
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