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Op-Ed Columnist: How Chemicals Change Us

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nicholas D. Kristof - May. 02 (Opinion) - Scientists warn that chemicals we’re exposed to every day can cause genital deformities and even breast cancer. Is our government paying attention?

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Why Bilinguals Are Smarter

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Yudhijit Bhattacharjee - Mar. 17 (Opinion) - Being bilingual makes you smarter and can have a profound effect on your brain. Speaking two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age.

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Why Science Majors Change Their Mind (It's Just So Darn Hard) - New York Times

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:04:35 -0700

New York Times - Nov. 04 - New York TimesWhy Science Majors Change Their Mind (It's Just So Darn Hard)New York TimesLAST FALL, President Obama threw what was billed as the first White House Science Fair, a photo op in the gilt-mirrored State Dining Room. He tested a steering wheel designed by middle schoolers to detect distracted driving and ...Scholarships Award STEM MajorsU.S. News & World Report (blog)all 5 news articles »

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Rick Perry and Galileo -- pardners in science

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Patt Morrison - Sep. 09 (Opinion) - Rick Perry, the Texas governor presidential wannabe 2.0, and Galileo Galilei, one of the great scientific thinkers in Western history -– BFFs? It was a double-take moment in the Republican presidential sweepstakes debate at the Ronald Reagan presidential library in Simi Valley. Perry, a science scoffer on evolution and global climate change, invoked the ghost of the persecuted and brilliant Galileo to support his fingers-in-the-ears, don't-confuse-me-with-facts sentiments about global warming: "The science is not settled on this. The idea that we would put Americans' economy at jeopardy based on scientific theory that's not settled yet to me is just nonsense," Perry said. "Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said, 'Here is the fact.' Galileo got outvoted for a spell," he said.

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The Republicans are now the anti-science party

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Sep. 04 (Opinion) - Jon Huntsman Jr, a former Utah governor and ambassador to China, isn't a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination. And that's too bad, because Mr Hunstman has been willing to say the unsayable about the Republican party in the United States, namely, that it is becoming the "anti-science party". This is an enormously important development. And it should terrify us. To see what Mr Huntsman means, consider recent statements by the two men who actually are serious contenders for the Republican nomination: Rick Perry and Mitt Romney.

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Why Anti-Science Ideology is Bad for America - Forbes

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:53:10 -0700

Forbes - Aug. 31 - Why Anti-Science Ideology is Bad for AmericaForbesHe is an internationally recognized climate and water expert and works at the intersection of science and policy, including issues related to the integrity of science. His work addresses the critical connections between water and health, ...Whistle-Blowers Say Obama Fails ScientistsBloomberg“Whistle-Blowers Say Obama Fails to Save Scientists From Meddling”Climate Science Watchall 3 news articles »

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Climate change: Species climbing higher and migrating north, study says

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:03:21 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Aug. 19 - Organisms are responding to climate change at a pace much faster than scientists estimated about a decade ago, according to a new study in the journal Science.

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Global warming disease

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - By Sherman Bloom - Jul. 12 (Opinion) - If your granddaughter has a fever of 105, is comatose, and has symptoms of meningococcal meningitis, do you wait for still more proof of the disease, or do you start treatment immediately? If you wait one day, the child may be dead. You want treatment now! How about a planet undergoing scientifically diagnosed global warming ...

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Texas is vulnerable to warming climate - Houston Chronicle

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:29:22 -0700

Houston Chronicle - Jul. 10 - Irish TimesTexas is vulnerable to warming climateHouston ChronicleThis book, written by a group of Texas academics, is a sober analysis of our state's vulnerability to climate change — and the things we can do about it. It is a particularly appropriate read as we suffer through the hellish summer of 2011. ...Climate change will be costlyKnoxville News SentinelGlobal warming warrior rallies troops in AspenAspen Daily NewsThe real climate hoax: denying reality and demonising scientistsIrish TimesColumbia Daily Tribune -Heritage.org (blog) -Big Governmentall 13 news articles »

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Climate of Denial

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Rolling Stone - By Al Gore - Jun. 22 (Opinion) - Admittedly, the contest over global warming is a challenge for the referee because it's a tag-team match, a real free-for-all. In one corner of the ring are Science and Reason. In the other corner: Poisonous Polluters and Right-wing Ideologues.

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The Earth Is Full

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Thomas L. Friedman - Jun. 08 (Opinion) - We are in denial about the severity of the climate crisis and just how big of a response is going to be needed.

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Sustainable management of tropical forests has a long way to go

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Nature - By Anjali Nayar - Jun. 08 () -

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Thoughts From the Interface of Science, Religion, Law and Culture - ScienceBlogs (blog)

Mon, 30 May 2011 09:06:49 -0700

ScienceBlogs.com - May. 30 (Opinion) - Thoughts From the Interface of Science, Religion, Law and CultureScienceBlogs (blog)He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda's Thumb. He has written for such publications as The Bard, Skeptic and Reports of the National Center for Science Education, spoken in front of many ...and more »

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Mind-boggling tornado count, deaths raise hard questions about causes, warnings & response

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Andrew Freedman - May. 25 (Opinion) - Given the sheer volume of the tornado chatter, the online equivalent to a twister’s whipping winds, it’s useful to take a step back and review the important questions that need to be asked at this point, while reminding ourselves of what is generally known.

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After Osama bin Laden’s death, imagining a world without DNA evidence

Sat, 14 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Brandon L. Garrett - May. 14 (Opinion) - How did the United States make sure that Osama bin Laden was dead? Facial-recognition software offered only 95 percent certainty. To be 99.9 percent sure, according to federal officials, it took DNA testing.

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Wolves endangered by political predators

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Brenda Peterson - Apr. 29 (Opinion) - A provision in a federal budget bill signed into law this month takes wolves in several Northwestern states off the Endangered Species List. Guest columnist Brenda Peterson says that returning management of wolves back to states could have dire consequences for habitat and other wildlife.

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Werner Herzog Enters 'The Cave Of Forgotten Dreams'

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Terri Gross, Werner Herzog - Apr. 25 (Interview) - In 1994, three French cave explorers discovered hundreds of prehistoric paintings and engravings on the walls of the Chauvet Cave in southern France. Carbon dating has since shown that the depictions of rhinoceroses, lions, cave bears, horses, bison, mammoths and other animals are between 30,000 and 32,000 years old. That doesn't mean the ancient drawings are any less sophisticated than what artists create today, says filmmaker Werner Herzog. "Art ... as it bursts on the scene 32,000 years ago, is fully accomplished. It doesn't start with 'primitive scribblings' and first attempts like children would make drawings," Herzog says. "It's absolutely and fully accomplished." The acclaimed German director, who has produced, written and directed more than 40 films, gained exclusive access to the Chauvet caves. He tells their story and the story of the world's oldest cave paintings in The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a 3-D documentary film. "Since early adolescence, I have been fascinated by cave paintings," Herzog tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "It actually was my personal intellectual awakening ... and shook me to the core — seeing an image of a horse [from the] prehistoric Stone Age. I couldn't believe it." Part of Herzog's interest in the paintings, he says, is the knowledge that tens of thousands of years ago, humans had the instinct to make art in order to represent the world around them.

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The Truth, Still Inconvenient

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Apr. 04 (Opinion) - The climate deniers can’t handle it when on of their own goes off-script.

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American Thought Police

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Mar. 27 (Opinion) - The hard right — which these days is more or less synonymous with the Republican Party — has a modus operandi when it comes to scholars expressing views it dislikes: never mind the substance, go for the smear.

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The Wilting Climate Change Debate

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - By Bradford Plumer - Feb. 10 (Opinion) - If you spend enough time listening to climate deniers speak, you start to recognize certain tropes and tics that crop up again and again.

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This isn't just about bees – it affects everything

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Michael Mccarthy - Jan. 20 (Opinion) - How will we characterise our age? By the birth of the internet? The rise of China? The first black US president? Perhaps in all those ways. But we could also say, less obviously but perhaps more fundamentally, that ours is the age when the insects disappeared.

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The 2010 Climate B.S.* of the Year Award

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

San Francisco Chronicle - By Dr. Peter Gleick - Dec. 30 (Review) - We are issuing the first in what may become a series of awards for the most egregious Climate B.S.* of the Year. In preparing the list of nominees, suggestions were received from around the world and a panel of reviewers -- all scientists or climate communicators -- waded through them. We present here the top five nominees and the winner of the 2010 Climate B.S.* of the Year Award.

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Science: The lonely 6%

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Economist - By M.S. - Dec. 09 (Opinion) - Daniel Sarewitz devotes an entire column in Slate to the fact that only 6% of scientists self-identify as Republicans (55% self-identify as Democrats) without offering even a hypothetical explanation of how this situation might have come about.

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Arsenic about face

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Martin Robbins - Dec. 08 (Opinion) - NASA's arsenic debacle tells us a lot about what's wrong about the relationship between science, peer review and the media in the 21st century.

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UK schools slip down world rankings - The Guardian

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - Dec. 07 (Opinion) - msnbc.comUK schools slip down world rankingsThe GuardianThe UK is slipping down world education rankings in maths, reading and science, and has been overtaken by Poland and Norway, a major study of 65 countries ...UK schools 'fall behind Estonia and Slovenia', says OECDTelegraph.co.ukTeens in U.S. Rank 25th on Math Test, Trail in Science, ReadingBloombergSlight uptick in U.S. high school science scores vs. internationalCNNScience Now -National Post -New York Timesall 94 news articles »

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