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You Like Me. You Really Like Me!

American Council on Science and Health is an advocacy group consisting of hundreds of scientists, doctors and policy experts devoted to science outreach. They've been around since the 1970s, when the core of their original group, including Nobel Laur ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 8 2014 - 4:51pm

Have An Idea For An Abandoned Mineshaft? You Could Get $21 Million

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has announced that the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is accepting applications for projects related to  abandoned mine drainage projects. You'll have to be a non-profit or a government agency to get gov ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2014 - 2:00am

Be An Expert- How To Simulate Your Own World Cup Projections

The World Cup is fast approaching and with it come no end to projections, estimations and forecasts about who is going to do what.  Using a Bayes analysis, once you reach the semifinal you have a 50 percent chance of being correct- just like flipping a coi ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2014 - 6:00am

Burned Plan

“ The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves ….” Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Act 1, scene 2. Our fire problem has been a long time in the making. It did not happen overnight. We will not fix it overnight, perhaps we never will. Coeur d ...

Blog Post - Norm Benson - Jun 10 2014 - 5:50pm

The Elbow-Lick Of Death

ZOOLOGISTS ANNOUNCED THE discovery of a tiny, super-cute new primate which can kill a human by licking its elbow. I am not making this up.  The new species of loris found in the Philippines has a poison gland at its elbow, says the American Journal of Pri ...

Blog Post - Nury Vittachi - Jun 28 2014 - 11:26am

Best Science Writers of 2014

How deep is science writing these days? Pretty darn deep. Way back when Science 2.0 started there were not a lot of great science writers. There were well-known ones, but not great ones. Journalism was in flux and mainstream media didn't respect it m ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 30 2014 - 9:48am

Going Deep With David Rees- Fun Science For The Family

"Going Deep" With David Rees premieres tonight on National Geographic Channel and if you have little time to decide whether or not to watch it, you are in luck because I can be brief- it's a good show. "Going Deep" is fun for all ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 14 2014 - 7:51pm

Mike Massimino, The First Tweeting Astronaut, Leaves NASA For Academia

Mission Accomplished. Now it's time to go back home. After two space shuttle missions and almost two decades, astronaut Mike Massimino has left NASA for Columbia University in New York. During the final servicing mission of the Hubble Space Telescope ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2014 - 12:57am

Happy 99th Birthday To The Inventor Of The Laser, Charles Townes

Charles Hard Townes (AP Photo) Charles Townes has a lot going for him; he just saw his 99th birthday and 500 people showed up to cheer for him. He has a Nobel prize and a younger wife- Frances is 98. Oh, and he invented the laser, which just about everyon ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 30 2014 - 4:08pm

I'm Marvelous Now- Why I Stopped Being Awesome

George Clooney used to copy my haircuts. People who knew me in the 1990s always marveled at my classic, parted-on-the-side, immaculately coiffed style. It was retro, just like the term "marvelous' is today. Prior to that, I had a classic Caesar n ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 31 2014 - 10:55am