Archive | February 20, 2008

Another couple of journalists who don't understand basic science

by on February 20, 2008 in Education, Journalism, United States

by JS O’Brien Yesterday, I wrote about a Florida columnist who’s so poorly educated and ill-read that she could neither construct a cogent argument nor recognize a ridiculous misstatement about Newton’s second law of thermodynamics that would be obvious to my middle-schooler.   Today, I find this report from Reuters that completely misses the story, and […]

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Sen. Clinton's special claim to military expertise

by on February 20, 2008 in Politics, Law & Government, War & Security, World

Sen. Hillary Clinton said something interesting in Youngstown yesterday. “Both Senator Obama and I would make history,” the New York senator said. “But only one of us is ready on day one to be commander in chief, ready to manage our economy, and ready to defeat the Republicans. Only one of us has spent 35 […]

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The Weekly Carboholic

by on February 20, 2008 in Energy, Environment & Nature, Weekly Carboholic

A new study by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and reported in the Asahi Shimbum (English edition) says that Russian permafrost has been melting deeper and faster than previous studies indicated. Specifically, the average temperature of the permafrost has risen almost to melting, the depth of melt has doubled since 2000, and […]

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