Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The Guardian has an article that highlights the collapsing rainforest ecosystem within Puerto Rico’s Luquillo rainforest. You can find the article here … Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished “We knew that something was amiss in the first couple days,” said Brad Lister. … Read more
To answer this question all we need do is to stick a global thermometer into the ocean and measure what is going on. Easy right? Actually yes it really is like that. There exists a vast network of roughly 3,800 Argo floats scattered right around the planet. Each individual one goes through a continious 10 … Read more
The quick summary is that this is a good news story, the number of people dying of cancer each and every year is declining. We know this because each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the numbers of new cases and deaths that will occur in the United States and compiles the most recent data … Read more
Nature and also Scientific American have published the same article that throws a spotlight upon some of the ways that the Shutdown is impacting science. The impact is quite real because the shutdown rather obviously impacts federally funded NASA, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Additionally all grant processing by the National Science Foundation (NSF) … Read more
This weekly column of religious weirdness has quite naturally evolved into a spotlight focused upon that caravan or lunacy; the right-wing evangelicals. The scope of the utter insanity is of course not just them. The utterly useless wall proposal has more or less demonstrated on an epic scale just how religiously cult-like and weird the … Read more
The internet is a disruptive technology. As it has rolled out over the last couple of decades many of the traditional and accepted ways that humans interact have been radically altered. This vastly increased flow of information has rippled into commerce, education, shopping, and also has now see the skewing of democratic outcomes via the … Read more