0000-0002-8715-2896 Lizards, microbes, and climate change after leaving the Paris accord Posted June 9, 2017 by Tabitha M. Powledge in Uncategorized post-info AddThis Sharing Buttons above LIZARDS AND GLOBAL WARMING Been reading about howCategory Archives: climate change denial
Can US Cities, States Reduce Carbon Emissions without Feds? Coping with Trump and Climate Change
0000-0002-8715-2896 Lizards, microbes, and climate change after leaving the Paris accord Posted June 9, 2017 by Tabitha M. Powledge in Uncategorized post-info AddThis Sharing Buttons above LIZARDS AND GLOBAL WARMING Been reading about howNews about ancient humanity: Humans in California 130,000 years ago? Homo naledi find is much younger than expected
0000-0002-8715-2896 News about ancient humanity: Humans in California 130,000 years ago? Homo naledi find is much younger than expected Posted May 5, 2017 by Tabitha M. Powledge in Uncategorized post-info AddThis Sharing Buttons abovePosted by in africa, ancient DNA, archaeology, brain, California, climate change denial, Denisovan, dna, elephants, Evolution, featured, fossils, genetics, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, Human Evolution, human fossils, human origins, human paleontology, Neandertal, Neanderthal, On Science Blogs, paleontology, Research, united states, women
Drug price hikes: revolt on the way? Also, the Pope, climate change, and a super eclipse
WILL DARAPRIM DISPUTE TOPPLE DRUG PRICES? Will the rage over Martin Shkreli’s extortionate overpricing of the old reliable toxoplasmosis drug Daraprim trigger a rebellion over the cost of our medicines? That’s what Dan Diamond argues at Vox. He hails Shkreli … Continue reading
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Jimmy Carter’s cancer, female sexual desire, and Donald Trump’s trumpery
IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR JIMMY CARTER’S CANCER The immunotherapy Jimmy Carter is getting in addition to radiation for the metastisized melanoma that has invaded his brain and liver is startlingly effective in some patients and not at all in others. As yet, … Continue reading
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Eat chocolate and lose weight! Plus more on the fraudulent gay marriage paper
Eat chocolate! Lose weight! Lie to everybody! The first response to journalist John Bohannon’s latest sting operation against schlock science journals and schlock science journalists–publishing a paper claiming that a chocolate bar a day helps people lose weight–was a savory … Continue reading
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Election: marijuana, climate change, abortion, Obamacare, soda tax, GMOs
Still going to pot The Republicans won big last Tuesday. But so did marijuana. Here’s a summary, from Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic: “Oregon and Alaska just became the third and fourth states to legalize the drug. Washington, D.C., … Continue reading
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Lab safety, smallpox and more virulent flu, marijuana benefits, plus headless, heedless, and clueless at Science
Lab safety is even worse than you thought
The best single blog source for keeping up with the current smallpox-anthrax-flu-lab safety fiasco is Maryn McKenna’s Superbug, one of the Wired blogs. Some recent posts:
About the cache of old vials …
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Goodbye coal? Female hurricanes are more deadly?
Coal black
At Bad Astronomy, Phil Plait says President Obama’s proposed new plan for slowing down atmospheric carbon dioxide by reducing coal use for generating electricity is huge.
But is it huge? As a mind set, a psychological …
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Here’s how to convince people climate change is now
The National Climate Assessment
You probably know that the White House issued the massive National Climate Assessment early this week. I’ll get to details and more links to comments in a moment, but if you need a quick overview, …
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