‘You Can’t Take Away My Hope’: Thirty Years Of Climate Scientists Helplessly Describing Our Dangerously Changing World
In a new video by Peter Sinclair, prominent climate scientist Michael MacCracken discusses how the last thirty years have confirmed the predictions he and others made in 1982 and earlier. The scientific understanding of how burning ( Read more... )

Small farms may be better for food security and biodiversity
We often assume the only way to feed the world's rapidly growing human population is with large-scale industrial agriculture. Many would argue that genetically altering food crops is also necessary to produce large enough quantities on smaller areas to feed the world's people.

But recent ( Read more... )

Red Orbit: Alan Turing Archives SavedPosted on: Saturday, 26 February 2011, 06:35 CST ( Read more... )

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The Daily Telegraph (UK): Happy Carl Sagan Day, everybody
By Tom Chivers

It would have been Carl Sagan’s 76th birthday on Tuesday, and his army of nerdish fans around the world have dedicated a day to his memory. It’s today, for some reason, so go and celebrate.

There’s a lot to love about Sagan: a great scientist and great author, a genuine ( Read more... )

 

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Check this out guys! It's a song that's mixed with quotes made by some scientists about the universe. Some of you might find it totally silly but I thought it was pretty beautiful... and fun =D

umm. i don't know if this counts, but i thought it was cool in a pop science kind of way?

Einstein's Brain Unlocks Some Mysteries Of The Mindthe real scientific discovery actually has very little to do with einstein, and has been known for two decades, but the story as a whole is interesting and slightly crazy in a way i've come to almost expect ( Read more... )

We all know Randi, debunker of myth -- he who with not but the sword of reason goes toe to toe with the bunk of the universe ( Read more... )

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Saturday marked Carl Sagan's 75th birthday, and to commemorate it, bill-sheehan reminds us of the Baloney Detection Kit, one of the best parts of The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle In the Dark (IMO one of Sagan's best books):
What skeptical thinking boils down to is the means to construct, and to understand, a reasoned argument and, especially ( Read more... )