Science & Society

Winter Olympics Talks- Korean Hopes For Reunification- US Can't Attack Without Warning US Civilians In South Korea

North Korea is going to send a team to the Winter Olympics in South Korea. The news is looking promising with a significant thawing of relations between the two Koreas in advance of the Winter Olympics. High level talks have begun already between North an ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jan 14 2018 - 4:52pm

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The title of this post is the password code required to connect to my wireless network at home. The service, provided by the Italian internet provider Fastweb, has been discontinued as I moved to Padova from Venice, so you can't really do much with th ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 10 2018 - 3:41am

Why Is Illegal Immigration- And Everything Else- Once Again More Important Than Science?

Yesterday, Democrats in the U.S. Senate which, along with the House of Representatives, form the two chambers of Congress, which are one of the three branches of government,(1) refused to fund a "continuing resolution" to essentially keep funding ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 20 2018 - 2:07pm

RIP To Science 2.0 Journalist Greg Critser

Science 2.0 community, it is with sadness that I inform you of the passing of long-time science journalist Greg Critser, the earliest science journalist to sign up on this site, in 2007. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 22 2018 - 11:57am

The Doomsday Clock Is More Accurately A ‘Symbolic Clock For Averting Disasters’

We get a regular announcment by the bulletin of Atomic Scientists at this time of year every year. It doesn't mean anything is going to happen soon. Indeed their focus is on the long term, not the short term. For instance the Cuban missile crisis did ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jan 28 2018 - 5:26pm

If Mom Had An Abortion, Teens More Likely To Have One Also

In the developed world, abortions are common despite ubiquitous condoms, birth control and even the "morning after pill"- about 6.7 million per year. In Canada, the teen pregnancy rate is 28 per 1000, with more than 50 percent of those ending in ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2018 - 4:42pm

NO NO NO- A Magnetic Pole Flip Will Not Make Parts Of Earth Uninhabitable

This has been running in numerous sensationalist press stories and other outlets with less careful journalists. It’s all based on a story in Undark by a journalist promoting their new book. And it is full of nonsense, utter codswallop. Here is the origina ...

Article - Robert Walker - Feb 4 2018 - 6:46am

恭賀新禧 And The Moon

To observers in much of North America and East Asia, on January 31 st, the second full moon of the month, passed through Earth’s shadow in a  Super Blue Blood Moon. ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Mar 1 2018 - 1:19pm

Basic Arithmetic: Of Guns and Armed Teachers.

E v en if we ban guns today, in any realistic situation, there would still be tens of millions of guns in circulation.    This fact means that in order to give teachers a real fighting chance,we must be trained and armed.  As a teacher at the college leve ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Feb 23 2018 - 12:53am

Putin- Doesn't Want Nuclear War- Aims For Peace & Renewed START 2 With Updated Credible Deterrent

I’ve had several PM’s and we’ve had comments by scared people in our Doomsday Debunked Facebook group who have read alarmist stories suggesting that Putin threatens to attack the US. If you have read these stories, it is worth listening to his actual spee ...

Article - Robert Walker - Mar 3 2018 - 1:27am