Articles in the Category: Politics and Science
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Computer Science, Energy, Engineering, Featured Articles, Geology, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 02 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
Science on Track for Big Budget Gains in 2011
The federal agencies submitted their budget requests to Congress this week, marking a big moment for all things science. According to preliminary reports about $148 billion of the Presidents full $3.8 trillion budget is heading for scientific research programs.
Photo courtesy of Brookhaven National...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips, Uncategorized on 01 29th, 2010 | No Comments
Science State of the Union
President Obama’s first State of the Union address was long as these speeches go but short on science. With only a few mentions of science, science education and innovation, the Monday morning science quarterbacks criticized the President for not including more science.
But two teenage future...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Climate, Diseases, Endangered Species, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics and Science, SciClips on 01 10th, 2010 | No Comments
The Growling Uncertainty of Science
One thing is for sure. Science doesn’t do certainty. No matter how close a researcher gets to complete certainty there is always room to know more. Therefore uncertainty is a scientific fact. And we need to get comfortable with it.
From taxonomic tussles over classifying the giant panda to more...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips, Space, Uncategorized on 12 30th, 2009 | No Comments
Final Frontier Goes Commercial
There are growing signs that outer space is going to become the domain of private enterprise. Since the U.S. space program began, it has been largely controlled by the federal government. But that’s all changing.
The first spaceport just broke ground in New Mexico. The first commercial spaceline...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Climate, Engineering, Environment, Geoengineering, Global Warming, Politics and Science, SciClips, Video on 12 21st, 2009 | No Comments
Science Looks for Plan B after Getting the Cold Shoulder at Warming Talks
Many scientists are disappointed after two weeks of climate change negotiations resulted in a toothless agreement that didn’t limit carbon dioxide, the main culprit of global warming. The new Copenhagen Accord(PDF) did not cut emissions as previously thought, dimming some hope that a global treaty...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics and Science, RawAudio, SciClips, Science & Entertainment on 12 15th, 2009 | No Comments
The Real Grey’s Anatomy
The hit ABC television drama Grey’s Anatomy revolves around the fictional Seattle Grace Hospital and follows the lives of surgical residents. Portland, Oregon medical correspondent and author Andrew Holtz wondered where the line between fact and fiction is being drawn when it comes to training...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Environment, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Politics and Science, SciClips on 12 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Gaga for Zhu Zhu
The world has gone nuts for five robotic hamsters, called Zhu Zhu Pets. While the cute and cuddly creatures race around on a surfboard, skateboard or in a car, the “it” toy of 2009 has some heavy metals that are within safety limits but beg the question: Do toys need to have these toxic...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Global Warming, Politics and Science, Video on 12 4th, 2009 | No Comments
ClimateGate Ignites Global Warming Firestorm
On November 19, a computer hacker penetrated the internal e-mail system at the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit and began posting 13 years worth of internal correspondence and documents online, in an effort to show that a small group of climate scientists has been deliberately suppressing...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Environment, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 12 3rd, 2009 | No Comments
Deconstructing Carbon Emissions
Over the course of the next few weeks we are going to be hearing a lot about carbon emissions–the gas released into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels and a whole host of other human activities. While the catch-all is called “carbon emissions” they aren’t confined to carbon...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Environment, Global Warming, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 11 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Copenhagen Diagnosis Reveals Dire Climate Future
just as world leaders are getting ready to head to Denmark for a big climate negotiations conference that will determine the treaty to follow the Kyoto Protocol, a new scientific assessment is painting a dark picture of the future, based on recent climate science.
Though not an official report of the...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Genetics, Geology, Politics and Science, SciClips, Video on 11 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment
Going Bananas Over Darwin
Christian pastor Ray Comfort decided to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by writing his own introduction and handing out free copies of the book to college students across the country.
Comfort is responsible for handing out over 100,000 copies of the...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Politics and Science, SciClips on 11 19th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Mammogram Recommendations Pit Science Against Policy
A long-standing debate over younger women getting annual breast cancer screening is reigniting this week, after an independent medical panel changed its recommendations.
Confusion, fear and politics are swirling around the new U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations. The task force now recommends...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, SciClips on 11 12th, 2009 | 7 Comments
Climate Deniers Turn Up Heat on Science Societies
Scientists within the most venerated science organizations in the United States are mounting rebellions against those organizations and their somewhat unified policy on the science of climate change–that it is real and being driven by human activities.
A group of several hundred of 47,000 physicists...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Climate, Diseases, Energy, Environment, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Politics and Science, SciClips on 10 1st, 2009 | No Comments
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Calls for Global Warming Trial
The biggest business lobby in the U.S. is pushing for the EPA to hold a public hearing to debate the science of global warming.
The move, calling for the Scopes monkey trial of the 21st Century, is proving too much for some chamber members, from big utilities to Nike and Johnson & Johnson.
Yesterday,...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Energy, Environment, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips, Solar, Video, Wind on 09 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment
President Obama Vows to Fight Climate Change
President Obama Addresses UN Climate Summit
In what could be considered his most strongly-worded warning about the threat of climate change, U.S. President Barack Obama told the United Nations that there is little time to act before permanent environmental damage is irreversible.
In a stirring speech,...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics and Science, SciClips on 08 28th, 2009 | No Comments
Confounded by Conficker
Just as we have to monitor our own health, now we have to be more aware of our computer’s health. While high cholesterol and blood pressure aren’t issues for our machines, keeping them free of viruses and worms are.
A new piece of malware, known as the Conficker worm, that has been worming...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Politics and Science, SciClips, Science of... on 07 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Science of…Health Care Reform
As Congress tackles one of the most important and expensive revamps of the American health care system, some are attacking the science used to measure how effective treatments are.
This research–known as comparative effectiveness research–does not attempt to ration health care. And, could...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Biology, Featured Articles, Genetics, Politics and Science, SciClips, SciFoo, SciLebs, Video on 07 17th, 2009 | No Comments
Building Something SciFoo Style
Every year the brightest science minds head south in July–somewhat like the swallows to Capistrano. This is more like the string theorists to the world Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.
There, they meet in an unconference, trade brilliant notions and form collaborations to address...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Biology, Diseases, Featured Articles, Geology, Global Warming, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 07 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Bridging the Science and Society Gap
There appears to be a huge disconnect between the public and scientists, as evidenced through a Pew Research Center report that came out last week.
Science writer Chris Mooney, the author of Republican War on Science and Stormworld has a new book, titled, Unscientific America, showing just how un-science-focused...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Politics and Science, SciClips on 07 8th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Science Champions in our Midst
The Washington state Leadership Assistance for Science Education Reform (LASER) program turned ten this year, in the midst of a state budget crisis. The legislature slashed its funding considerably. But the Pacific Science Center, which administers the program, honored science advocates across the state.
They...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Featured Articles, Politics and Science, SciClips on 06 26th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Fake Paper Flap
No one wants to hear that scientific journals fall prey to unscrupulous scientists who manufacture data or worse whole papers. And sometimes they even are the victims of hoaxes–even some conducted in the name of science.
Philip Davis and Kent Anderson pulled a fast one on an open access journal...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Math, Politics and Science, SciClips, Video on 05 11th, 2009 | No Comments
Counting Casualties in the Math Wars
The battle line in the math wars separates reform math from traditional. It pits new, fuzzier, inquiry-based learning against rote memorization of fundamental math facts. And, it’s been boiling in school districts across the country for over 30 years.
The latest battleground is Seattle, WA, where...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Global Warming, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, Space, Video on 04 9th, 2009 | No Comments
First Person with John Holdren, President Obama’s Science Adviser
Watch the video First Person: WH Science Adviser on Priorities.
Tinkering with Earth’s climate to chill runaway global warming, a radical idea once dismissed out of hand, is being discussed by the White House as a potential emergency option, according to the president’s new science adviser.
He...
