In the quarterly lamentation about the need for science outreach in the U.S., what often gets lost is that not everyone will be good at science. Lack of science knowledge is regarded as some sort of defect, but it is never an issue with the child, instead it is society or schools. We need more funding for cartoon characters and flashy animation to explain science because that is what today's kids 'need', we are told. If you are in that camp,
the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress will make you happy.
Without question, a booming worldwide population and the need to feed them have resulted in greater greenhouse gas emissions. The goal of any civilized society has always been to make food affordable to everyone regardless of income and we are converging on that rapidly. If anything, the rising obesity problem is because we are reaching a Utopian ideal of enough food for everyone in richer countries.
If you are reading this article, there is a pretty good chance you do not believe the alignment of the stars when you were born determined your personality. Especially if, like me,
your sign recently changed but your personality did not. Or you were born in the east rather than the west, in which case it didn't change but is still different.
Among the more zealous atheists in the science community, religious people are one big jumble of intellectual immaturity, if not outright stupidity, bent on replacing science classes with the New Testament.(1)
Hey, that's nicer than what they say about Republicans.
But, whether you are religious or not, The Bible is likely part of your cultural lexicon. So whereas if kookier science pundits want to send a negative message, they compare all who disagree with them to Holocaust deniers (calling opponents Nazis is too cliché) because they can't bring themselves to use Biblical comparisons, moderate folks use liturgical imagery in more positive ways.
Avian influenza, bird flu, causes the unnecessary deaths of millions of chickens each year, preventing them from instead being killed for my dinner.
Luckily, science is on the case, though irrational left-wing anti-science types won't like the solution; breeding chickens resistant to it.
Obviously the meat and eggs from these chickens cannot in any conceivable way be different from any other egg but the same mentality that leads people to believe the world will end because of a Mayan calendar can allow people to believe these eggs can be different, so look for the usual protests.
The super chicken was created by researchers from Cambridge and Edinburgh.
In ancient times, when things went wrong in battle or the economy, people blamed leaders (if they didn't like them) or the Gods (if they liked the leaders) but maybe they should have blamed global warming. Errr, and cooling.
A new study in Science uses the same techniques as dendrochronology to map the rise and fall of empires and cultures as it was recorded in tree rings - and then to weather conditions.
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