February 25, 2010
Tomorrow's Table
Recipes for GE eggplant Most of us love eggplant, but to find a true eggplant connoisseur, go to India.Eruptions
SI/USGS Weekly Volcano Report for 2/17-23/2010 Find out the latest volcano news with this week's USGS/Smithsonian Weekly Volcano Activity Report.Pharyngula
South Duh-kota, hang your head in shame The South Dakota senate has been wrestling over an important resolution, HCR 1009. Here's the original text. It will look rather familiar to anyone who has seen creationist bills roll through a legislature. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by...Framing Science
Remarks at AAAS Conference on Climate Change Literacy More on the difference between advocacy and engagement....Casaubon's Book
Growing In Sacks, Pots and Whatever You've Got We tend to think that little gardens here and there make no difference, but in fact, they add up rapidly. Consider the impact of US Victory Gardens in WWII, for example.Casaubon's Book
Climate Change Deniers Being Led by...Climate Change Believer? I think this is more compelling evidence for the proposition that many of the people who are most invested in discrediting climate science are intellectually dishonest, doing it for political or economic gain, rather than out of sincere convictionFebruary 24, 2010
Framing Science
AU and WAMU Examine "The Climate Change Generation: Youth, Media, and Politics in an Unsustainable World" Rescheduled event from February, broadcast live on public radio and online....Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
One Week From Tonight in NYC: SciCafe at AMNH Our energy future -- from powering cell phones, laptops, and cars to harnessing alternative sources like solar and wind -- depends on more efficient, high-performance batteries and fuel cells. Héctor Abruña, director of the Energy Materials Center at Cornell, will discuss exciting new technologies and materials that have the potential to revolutionize the energy landscape.The World's Fair
Biodiversity song... TA DA! (sort of) In case those of you (the 2 or so readers we have here) are anxiously waiting for the song on biodiversity that I promised a while back. Well, I'm still working on it (partly things have been busy, also partly...A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - interview with Jeff Ives Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this...Casaubon's Book
So You (Don't Particularly) Want to Be a Farmer This post is not for my readers who have enthusiastically embraced the agrarian lifestyle, whether city farmers and suburban permaculturists or outright farmers or wanna-be farmers. This post is for your loved ones.February 23, 2010
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Hubris, Justly Rewarded Some of you will remember that I was whining a few weeks ago that I had snow envy - that I was jealous of the snow folks in the mid-Atlantic were getting, while we Northeasterners, who have come to expect...Casaubon's Book
Revisiting Slow Clothing And yet, I think there are a number of really good reasons to find and learn ways to make clothing, to prioritize homemade, or locally made clothing (including learning to find it beautiful), and perhaps to create a "Slow Clothing" or "Slow Fashion" movement rather like the "Slow Food" movement currently picking up speed.The Island of Doubt
Where's there's a Will, there's a way to obfuscate It sounds so creepy, evoking as it does the allure of the sex trade and fear of communism, and yet implying a degree of scientific precision. What could be more American?Effect Measure
Grant writing and the day that my ship comes in (or goes down) Are ships full of poison being deliberately scuttled in the Mediterranean?February 22, 2010
Pharyngula
Lomborg gets spanked Bjorn Lomborg, the "skeptical environmentalist," has always bugged me as a rather shady character. Now Howard Friel started fact-checking Lomborg's footnotes, and found them to be wanting. But when Friel began checking Lomborg's sources, "I found problems," he says. "As...A Few Things Ill Considered
Another week of GW News, February 21, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup...February 21, 2010
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Do You Have to Grow Food? I think there will be no substitute for being involved with your food and your food system, and I think that for many people, food growing provides a measure of security not available even through sustainable purchasing from local farmers, but I don't believe that means that all of us are going, as the song goes, "Get behind the mule in the morning and plow."February 19, 2010
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Favorite Environmental Charity Crunchy Chicken, queen of all things crunchy and good, and yours truly have something really cool to announce. No, actually it is really hot - sizzling in fact.Guilty Planet
Jellyfish Burger Wins NSF Visualization Challenge The future is rubbery...Casaubon's Book
She Farms Women feed the world - and I mean that quite literally.Eruptions
Friday Flotsam: Another rumbling Russian and tossing nuclear waste into volcanoes The latest USGS/SI volcano report, how we use the magnetism of minerals to tell us about a volcano and should we dispose of nuclear waste by throwing it into a volcano (?!)February 18, 2010
Eruptions
Rockin' on the Reykjanes Ridge, Iceland There are few spots in the world where you can see a mid-ocean ridge and the Reykjanes area of Iceland is one of them. Right now, earthquakes are shaking the Reykjanes Ridge, so are we going to see a new Icelandic eruption?Casaubon's Book
The Basics of Starting Seeds New gardeners generally start out by buying their seedling, and depending on where you are getting them, this can be a problem. The destructive wave of Late Blight that hit the tomato crop across the eastern half of the US was derived from seedlings purchased at big-box garden centers.Casaubon's Book
Stratification and Winter Sowing: Tools for Your Toolbox Yesterday, I spent a long time filling seed flats and pressing seeds into dirt - and then I took them outside and set them to germinate. The temps were hovering right around freezing, and there was light snow coming down...
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