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Weekend Science: Create A Kid Nucleation Experiment In Your Driveway

Weekend Science: Create A Kid Nucleation Experiment In Your Driveway

Apr 04 2014 | comment(s)

Nothing says fun to a kid like talking about carbon dioxide and nucleation sites and surfactants.

Actually, that sounds really, really boring. But if you instead tell them you are going to cause a giant geyser of soda to erupt in the driveway, they will get pretty excited. Then they will ask what happens if you use different sodas, and then different candies, and suddenly a little experimental physicist or chemist is born.
Whey Acid Dumping: Greek Yogurt Is Killing Gaia

Whey Acid Dumping: Greek Yogurt Is Killing Gaia

Apr 04 2014 | comment(s)

Enjoy Greek yogurt?

Maybe, if you hate nature.

Because it is now a $2 billion a year industry, activists have turned on it, a fate that the $29 billion organic food industry has so far escaped.

One Green Planet says the greek yogurt manufacturing process is "creating an ecological nightmare beyond all comprehension" which tells you that no one at One Green Planet can do simple math. And they are prone to hyperbole. It is entirely in my ability to comprehend what a cup of yogurt can do.
Organic Food Does Not Reduce Cancer Risk

Organic Food Does Not Reduce Cancer Risk

Apr 03 2014 | comment(s)

Organic food has built a lot of mythology around its process - more ethical, more nutritional, fewer pesticides, a larger penis for the sons of organic shoppers - but one claim was a puzzler only subscribed to by the kind of people who buy homeopathy and healing crystals; that eating organic might reduce the risk of cancer.
It's Been A Bad Decade For Union Of Concerned Scientists

It's Been A Bad Decade For Union Of Concerned Scientists

Apr 02 2014 | comment(s)

A decade ago, a well-orchestrated political campaign against Republicans in general and George W. Bush in particular turned everything into an anti-science issue. Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), which is run by a former Democratic staffer, was front and center in that effort, even drafting a popular 2004 petition saying Bush "has continued to distort and suppress science" which was dutifully signed by a bunch of people who were never going to vote for a Republican anyway. 
California GMO Food-Labeling Bill Clears Committee

California GMO Food-Labeling Bill Clears Committee

Apr 02 2014 | comment(s)

California State Sen. Noreen Evans wants any food that contains a genetically modified ingredient to have a special label declaring it - unless the product is alcohol.
How To Take Millions Of Tons Of Pesticides Out Of Our Environment

How To Take Millions Of Tons Of Pesticides Out Of Our Environment

Apr 01 2014 | comment(s)

When Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was taking the country by storm 50 years ago, it was a puzzle to scientists and farmers who did not see the cultural future looming in front of them. Scientists dismissed it as anecdotal evidence while farmers recognized that if you don't use a pesticide according to instructions, bad things happen. Both knew that without pesticides, yields would be devastated.