Given that there are no indigenous peoples in the UK, (the kind that exist in Australia and the U.S.), this is a bit strange: Severe restrictions on scientists’ freedom to study bones and skulls from ancient graves are putting archaeological research in Britain at risk, according to experts. The growing dispute relates to controversial legislation…Continue Reading…
My students are teaching me many things this semester. They have a class blog that is now a few weeks old, and already I have learned that New Yorkers can dial out for a tree delivery, and that I should never allow my kids to eat chicken McNuggets ever again, even it means I have…Continue Reading…
That’s the tweet from Andy Revkin, as he links to this USA today story. Funny, but I’m not seeing any mention of the story over at WUWT or Climate Depot, or Planet Gore. At least Tom Nelson has seen seen fit to link to it. Oh, well, I’m sure Anthony, Marc, and the gang at…Continue Reading…
If this freewheeling attitude towards sex and exhibitionism is so thoroughly British, how come nobody told me when I was hosteling through the English countryside several decades ago? Then again, I never saw any werewolves, either.
UPDATE: Charlie Petit at Science Journalism Tracker has a very complimentary overview of the special package discussed below. Twenty years ago, landmark legislation passed by the U.S. Congress revolutionized the field of archaeology in America. That much everyone can agree on. But some anthropologists insist that the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)…Continue Reading…
I’ve previously discussed how some anti-immigrant factions use green rhetoric as a proxy in their endless quest to “stabilize” population growth in the U.S. Longtime environmental activists tend to wave off this unsavory element within their ranks, as if it was just a few cranks crashing their party. History suggests otherwise. Now, via John Fleck,…Continue Reading…
Whether you are a liberal or a conservative, a fan of Climate Progress or WUWT, an atheist or pious believer, a postal worker or tenured professor, here is something you all will probably agree on: We are not just ruled by idiots, we are reported on by idiots too.
The Wildlife Society asks: Can a 10 pound bird bring down an 80 ton airplaine? Hell yeah: When an aircraft and a goose collide, the goose weighs more than an elephant during the instant of collision. This force is enough to cripple an aircraft and can force emergency landings (We all remember the Miracle on…Continue Reading…
This headline to a book review in yesterday’s NYT made me think of a sideline conversation I had with Robert Lee Hotz last week. It was after the Amy Wallace talk at NYU, which Hotz, a science columnist for the WSJ, moderated. We were chatting about the rise of the anti-vaccine movement. Hotz speculated that…Continue Reading…
It’s prompting the Pentagon to become less fossil fuel dependent and will likely hasten the scale up of renewable energy technologies. From Elisabeth Rosenthal’s must-read front page story in today’s NYT: Even as Congress has struggled unsuccessfully to pass an energy bill and many states have put renewable energy on hold because of the recession,…Continue Reading…