Articles in the Category: Politics and Science
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, Video on 08 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Scientists Say Toxic BP Oil Mix Sits on Gulf Floor and Floats Below the Surface

Scientists Say Toxic BP Oil Mix Sits on Gulf Floor and Floats Below the Surface
After one of their research vessels returned from the Gulf, University of South Florida scientists say they found significant amounts of toxic oil sitting on the Gulf floor – and it is killing sea life. Small oil droplets speckle the Gulf floor and are hard to detect. Best seen under ultraviolet...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Environment, Global Warming, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, Space, Video on 07 1st, 2010 | No Comments

2010: A Space Policy

2010: A Space Policy
President Obama unveiled his new plan(PDF) for NASA. After scrapping the manned space program Constellation last fall the President pushed back plans to return to the moon and send a manned mission to Mars. This announcement and policy reversal struck some stargazers and scientists as disappointing. The...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Geology, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Politics and Science, Video on 06 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

BP Flow Rate Technical Panelist Says Scientists Need Data Not Speculation

BP Flow Rate Technical Panelist Says Scientists Need Data Not Speculation
Over the last few weeks, scientists — including those on the government’s Flow Rate Technical Panel — have been unable to pinpoint how many gallons of oil are flooding the Gulf of Mexico. Ira Leifer who is part of a 12-scientist panel guiding the Obama administration as it tries to...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, Space, Video on 06 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

John Glenn Wants To Keep Shuttles Flying

John Glenn Wants To Keep Shuttles Flying
America’s first hero astronaut is calling on the Obama administration to reverse course and keep NASA’s space shuttle program alive. John Glenn says retiring Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavor later this year would ground U.S. manned space flight for at least a decade. “Why terminate...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Global Warming, Horizon Oil Spill, Politics and Science, Video on 06 16th, 2010 | No Comments

President Obama Addresses Nation from the Oval Office About the BP Oil Spill

President Obama Addresses Nation from the Oval Office About the BP Oil Spill
Full Transcript of President Obama’s speech, “A Faith in the Future that Sustains us as a People” President Obama addressed the nation last night, assuring all Americans that he is working hard, with scientists, engineers, oil company executives and 30,000 volunteers and aid workers...
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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

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...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 01 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Science State of the Union

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...
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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

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...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips, Space on 12 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Final Frontier Goes Commercial

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...
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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

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...
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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 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...
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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

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...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Global Warming, Politics and Science, Video on 12 4th, 2009 | No Comments

ClimateGate Ignites Global Warming Firestorm

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...
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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

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...
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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

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...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Genetics, Geology, Politics and Science, SciClips, Video on 11 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

Going Bananas Over Darwin

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...
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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

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...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, SciClips on 11 12th, 2009 | 8 Comments

Climate Deniers Turn Up Heat on Science Societies

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...
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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

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,...
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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 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,...
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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

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...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Politics and Science, SciClips, Science of... on 07 24th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Science of…Health Care Reform

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...
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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

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...
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