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This article in the Atlantic is a few months old now, but the topic is a good one. Educational reform. With all the chatter about BC teachers and such, I thought this was a good read, and particularly a very good contrast of the differences between many countries/societies. Finland has been...

The Republican Presidential nomination campaign is getting uglier. The Santorum campaign has injected the story of Romney's family vacation in 1983 into the campaign. Appaently, the dog carrier was strapped to the roof of a packed station wagon for a twelve hour trip from Boston to Canada...

Whoops...a bit of a backlash for BBH Labs, looks like they stepped in something smelly:It sounds like something out of a darkly satirical science-fiction dystopia. But it’s absolutely real — and a completely problematic treatment of a problem that otherwise probably wouldn’t be mentioned in...

The co-chair of Santorum's campaign, Rev. O'Neal Dozier: Santorum co-chair: Romney should ‘renounce his racist Mormon religion’ | The Raw Story An African-American pastor affiliated with Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is demanding that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney...

Politico Mistakes State Flag for Union Flag, Idiocy Ensues See that flag? It is the state flag of Wisconsin. On the top there is the name of the state, "Wisconsin," and on the bottom is the year that Wisconsin was admitted to the union. Politico reporter Donovan Slack thought that this...

Takes this pill and call me in the morning? Some researchers at Oxford university have discovered that a pill might be able to treat somebody with racist and other prejudiced beliefs. Propranolol, is an old drug of the beta-blocking class which has been used to treat a wide variety of...

Some registered Republican climate scientists relaying their frustration with the GOP leadership: GOP Not Listening to Its Own Scientists on Climate Change | InsideClimate News Kerry Emanuel:No GOP candidates or policymakers want to touch the issue, and those of us trying to educate them are...

Sliced avocado, tomatoes, red onion, spinach, whole seed mustard, jalopena havarti, and genoa salami on rye. Now I'm hungry, with about 30 minutes before I can leave work and go home...

Documents reveal Koch-funded group's plot to undermine climate science - CSMonitor.com Heartland burned by 'DenialGate' memos - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.com Someone calling themselves "Heartland Insider" has leaked internal documents from the Heartland Institute, who were one of many...

So, in order to study anything, researchers must reinvent the wheel every single time they study something, including previous work, and instead of say, citing previous research? That's just not how science works. And the oceans are warming. Here's a figure from Levitus et al. 2009: The...

It shouldn't be too difficult to understand...elephant seals prey mainly on squid and fish, both are poikilothermic which means their metabolic rate varies dependent on the ambient environmental temperature. So if surface waters get warmer, as the heat convects downward in the ocean, the prey...

Gobbledygook? Or crack in your cereal?

There are certainly some who would like us to focus on only the last ten years or so...try the first post in this thread... Also you are mistaken about the time required. Climate change does not require millenia. There's no set rule for how long it will take, the climate responds to climate...

Who thinks that?

Ouch...that's gonna cause a stir :lol: There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy. The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold...

A Republican state senator from Oklahoma City introduced a bill Tuesday that would ban the use of aborted human fetuses in food, despite conceding that he's unaware of any company using such a practice. Okla. Senator Wants Ban on Human Fetuses in Food - ABC News 8O Who thinks of this stuff...

None of your conspiracy minded ilk's predictions have come true, that's the point. Conspiracy theories shouldn't be expected to make successful predictions...far too many assumptions. As for scientists, well plenty of predictions have come true. The cooling stratosphere, the warming...

No...I'm saying that nobody needed to burn tires. I'm saying that denier predictions fail yet again.

Ahh, when your last prediction fails, move onto another and hope nobody notices...well I remember quite clearly the science illiterate claiming cycle 24 was going to cool the world drastically. Well it hasn't, surprise surprise... There were proclamations of new ice ages, and Walter claiming he...

Here's another statistic, 322 of the last 322 months have all been above the long term 20th century average. You have to go back to 1985 to find a monthly temperature below the long term average. So for you gamblers, who swallow whatever Watts or Curry shovels in front of you, the probability...