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Environmental Groups Back In Court To Help Fellow Rich White People

The Usual Suspects of the anti-science movement, Center for Biological Diversity(1), Environmental...

Batteries Are Stuck In The 1990s Because Solid-State Batteries Keep Short-Circuiting

The electric car industry is held back by reliance on conventional energy. Despite spending trillions...

Dogs Have Been 'Man's Best Friend' For 14,000 Years

The bond between humans and dogs is one of the oldest stories in anthropology. It may also be a...

Is This The D'Artagnan Made Famous In 'The Three Musketeers' By Dumas?

“I have lost D’Artagnan, in whom I had every confidence,” wrote King Louis XIV to his Queen...

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Shimi: Like Microsoft Bob, Except For Music

Shimi: Like Microsoft Bob, Except For Music

Jun 27 2012 | comment(s)

Is the world ready for a robot DJ?

Sometimes you have to be bold.  People laughed at Microsoft when they introduced Microsoft Bob too; people didn't know they needed a graphical image of their office showing a fax machine to send a fax - until it was available.  
James Lovelock: What's Eating The Godfather Of Global Warming?

James Lovelock: What's Eating The Godfather Of Global Warming?

Jun 26 2012 | comment(s)

James Ephraim Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS, Ph.D, aged 92, is a chemist and creator of the Gaia Hypothesis. He is called the 'Godfather of Global Warming'. 

What he was, to most people, was an alarmist more on the order of President Obama's Science Czar John Holdren, a doomsday zealot. And I don't mean 'alarmist' in the American political sense, i.e., anyone who accepts the science of climate change - I mean a real End Of The World Is Nigh prophet.  So silly even the hysterical poster child of Think Progress, Joe Romm, believed Lovelock was over the top.
Don't Be Hatin' On Edward O. Wilson, Richard

Don't Be Hatin' On Edward O. Wilson, Richard

Jun 25 2012 | comment(s)

Professor Richard Dawkins, the bestselling author who has been wrong about biology as often as he has been right, is taking Edward O. Wilson, Science 2.0's favorite myrmecologist, to task for his latest book.
Political Science Is Not A 'Critical Part Of Our National Science Agenda'

Political Science Is Not A 'Critical Part Of Our National Science Agenda'

Jun 25 2012 | comment(s)

Political scientists are in a panic because the US House of Representatives passed a bill which contains a line item eliminating National Science Foundation grants for political scientists. The Senate may vote soon also, though there are a lot more Democrats in the Senate so it is unlikely it will pass. We know how much they hate science. 
Asian Women Are Penalized Getting Into College But Their Gametes Are Gold

Asian Women Are Penalized Getting Into College But Their Gametes Are Gold

Jun 24 2012 | comment(s)

Americans are being beat by Asians again.  Asians do better on international standardized tests, their economies are better; heck, they are even robbing us of that last stronghold of American dominance - obesity. The Chinese have gotten a level of fat in one generation that it took Americans 200 years to accomplish.  Typical overachievers.