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Continuing from the prior article ... “The Sun Ain’t Yeller”, cries the heliochromologist.   Undaunted by tradition, dogma, or tens of thousands of erroneous magazine and textbook images of our Sun, heliochromology, a colorful heterodo ...

Article - George Cooper - Feb 7 2013 - 5:49pm - 5 attachments

A saying goes, "as long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools", but they meant that students would look for help wherever they could get it.  But a subset of people felt it also reflected a fairly uniform view about school pray ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 3 2013 - 5:00am - 0 attachments

It's not biology versus physics but in many ways it is science versus culture: Peter Higgs, he of the Higgs Boson, colloquially called 'the God particle', doesn't think much of Richard Dawkins, the biologist not famous for biology but rather for hating re ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Dec 26 2012 - 7:33pm - 0 attachments

As I reported in a post a few days ago , the Italian sentencing of seven scientists to 6-years imprisonment for their misassessment of the risks of the population of L'Aquila, soon thereafter struck by a powerful earthquake which killed 309 and injured ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 29 2012 - 1:28pm - 0 attachments

Italy is a beautiful, crazy country. Take today's verdict, which condemns seven scientists ( Franco Barberi, Enzo Boschi, Mauro Dolce, Bernardo De Bernardinis, Giulio Selvaggi, Claudio Eva, and Gianmichele Calvi ) to six years of prison, plus a huge fin ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 23 2012 - 4:01am - 0 attachments

Today, I was met by a science-debunker ( laugh a little, you know you want to. ) He didn't know that I work in the field of biotechnology, or that I am a scientist. I am often met with the, " you're too pretty to have a high IQ ," mentality, so I tend ...

Article - Cher One - Aug 19 2009 - 2:12pm - 0 attachments

Could the big split among anti-science hippies occur over a cute little cat? PETA loves animals.  Greenpeace hates genetic modification and science in general because changes are only 'natural' if high-energy cosmic rays mutate things at random. W ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 6 2012 - 9:20am - 0 attachments

In light of some comments below, and what appears to be an inability to follow a simple link, I accept it is time to rewrite this blog post as one seamless narrative. Thanks to those comments that helped solve the original problem. 19 April 2010, versi ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 24 2011 - 3:10pm - 0 attachments

Many people, perhaps most, hate the idea that life might depend on chance processes. It is a human tendency to search for meaning, and what could be more meaningful than the belief that our lives have a greater purpose, that all life in fact is guided ...

Article - Dave Deamer - Apr 30 2009 - 9:45am - 0 attachments

Antonio Ereditato (left), spokesperson of the Opera collaboration, announced today he stepped down. He is no longer leading the Opera experiment.   The Opera experiment last September made headlines around the world with their announcement that n ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 30 2012 - 5:47am - 0 attachments