Right now we’re Rome with crappy roads. We’re a mighty world power, but when it comes to getting people and cargo easily from point A to point B, and those points are separated by hundreds… more →
The PlanetologistLinus wrote 1 week ago: Image credit: (Ted Thai/TIME/Time Pix) Barack Obama is nominating Francis Collins to head the Nation … more →
Miriam Jones wrote 1 month ago: From the latest CAUT Bulletin: “Business Model Squeezes the Serendipity Out of Research, … more →
speakingofresearch wrote 2 months ago: Join over the hundreds of people (1400+ at time of writing) who have signed The Pro-Test Petition! T … more →
theanswers42 wrote 2 months ago: After the epic, epic failure that was the Bush administration, Obama has had an awful lot of work to … more →
zlurie wrote 2 months ago: A divide is starting to open between the United States and Canada when it comes to science funding … more →
nahnopenotquite wrote 2 months ago: Absolutely love this. Absolutely right. … more →
Planetologist wrote 3 months ago: Right now we’re Rome with crappy roads. We’re a mighty world power, but when it comes to … more →
Paul Wells wrote 3 months ago: I’m going to get in trouble for the title on this thing, which is meant to be a bit satirical. … more →
Planetologist wrote 3 months ago: At one time the United States had something called the Office of Technology Assessment. Renowned fut … more →
niewiap wrote 3 months ago: I am just finishing the second of a duo of fantastic books about science and scientists. The first o … more →
Planetologist wrote 4 months ago: In a previous post I attacked US Representative John Conyers’ bill HR 801, The Fair Copyright … more →
Planetologist wrote 4 months ago: Phil Plait recently posted on his Bad Astronomy blog about the latest Congressional creep to try and … more →
Akira wrote 4 months ago: From View From the Right: OBAMA REVERSES BUSH ON STEM CELL RESEARCH By Lawrence Auster One of Georg … more →
mattusmaximus wrote 4 months ago: All I can say is… WHOO-HOOOOO!!! Watch the entire video clip, because President Obama … more →
Planetologist wrote 4 months ago: And golly, they’re tasty. Today Obama helped greatly to put science back on track in the US, b … more →
mattusmaximus wrote 4 months ago: In recent news, it seems the eight year ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research will … more →
mattusmaximus wrote 5 months ago: It’s been a good week. It seems that all the rabble rousing done over the last couple of week … more →
niewiap wrote 5 months ago: When coming back from a conference recently, I had an interesting conversation with my PI about gran … more →
Sarah wrote 5 months ago: The Senate passed the stimulus bill yesterday, 61 to 37. After hashing out the differences between … more →