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“How we’d really deal with an Armageddon-sized asteroid”
13 Jan 2013 6:20 am Craig Newmark

“Hint: We probably wouldn’t nuke it“.

“The Hunter and the Meteor”
8 Dec 2012 6:28 am Craig Newmark

We should enjoy Orion while we can. In less than a million years Betelgeuse will probably go supernova.

“Future Humans Will All Look Brazilian, Researcher Says”
13 Oct 2012 6:33 am Craig Newmark

Positive development? You decide.

If you don’t have enough to worry about
24 Jun 2012 6:09 am Craig Newmark

“Space weather expert has ominous forecast“.
A stream of highly charged particles from the sun is headed straight toward Earth, threatening to plunge cities around the world into darkness and bring the global economy screeching to a halt.
This isn’t the premise of the latest doomsday thriller. Massive solar storms have happened before — and another one is likely to occur soon, according to Mike Hapgood, a space weather scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, England.

Confirmed: The Less You Know About Science The More You Believe In The Climate Change Hoax
1 Jun 2012 8:06 am William Teach

Just to be clear, by “climate change hoax” I mean the notion that man is mostly or solely responsible for every change in the weather, known as hotcoldwetdry, and the slight uptick in temperatures since the end of the Little Ice Age. And, in a bit of comical irony, we find out, via James Delingpole, the Register has published a story entitled The more science you know, the less worried you are about climate highlighting a Warmist backed study that backfired
A US government-funded survey has found that Americans with higher …

Adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells: which one works?
23 May 2012 12:00 am Wintery Knight

There are two kinds of stem-cell research. The first kind is called embryonic stem-cell research (ESCR). This kind is opposed by pro-lifers because it kills unborn persons by extracting their stem cells for use in medical research. The second kind is called adult stem-cell research (ASCR). This kind is supported by pro-lifers.
Which kind produces more scientific discoveries and new treatments?
Well, consider this article from Yahoo News which describes a new treatment made possible by ethical adult stem cell research.
Excerpt:
Scientists have for the first time succeeded in taking skin cells from patients with heart failure and transforming …

News you can use
28 Apr 2012 5:55 am Craig Newmark

“Why men can’t – and shouldn’t – stop staring at women“.

“Relentless optimism of ugly men makes up for unappealing looks”
10 Mar 2012 6:14 am Craig Newmark

Being ugly has at least one evolutionary advantage.

ABC News That’s Not So New
6 Mar 2012 7:44 pm Michael Fell

One of the breaking headline news stories online from ABC News just today, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 reads: Green Firms Get Fed Cash, Give Exec Bonuses, Fail.
http://news.yahoo.com/green-firms-fed-cash-execs-bonuses-fail-200314806–abc-news.html
Ronnie Greene and Matthew Mosk, for ABC News, aggressively reporting news with an edge, convey how companies like Solyndra, Ener1and Beacon Power took money from the Department of Energy, paid bonuses to executives, then proceeded to file for bankruptcy. How unfortunate for Greene, Mosk and ABC News, that that edge of theirs is so desperately in need of major sharpening. Conservative journalists have been …

Green socialists backing Romney campaign with huge donations
6 Mar 2012 12:00 am Wintery Knight

From Politico, a disturbing article about some of Mitt Romney’s donors. (H/T Doug Ross)
Excerpt:
Will Mitt Romney flip-flop on climate change if he’s elected president?
Some big donors are betting on it.
Romney and his super PAC have taken millions from funders with strong green streaks — despite the fact that the former Massachusetts governor has run to the right in the primary, proclaiming doubts about global-warming science and trashing President Barack Obama’s greenhouse gas emissions policies.
Julian Robertson, founder of the Tiger Management hedge fund, helped put cap-and-trade legislation on the map with $60 …

Risk factors for breast cancer: alcohol consumption, induced abortion, and contraception
10 Feb 2012 12:00 am Wintery Knight

Here’s the latest study from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), showing that excessive consumption of alcohol is a rish factor for breast cancer.
Excerpt:
Consumption of 3 to 6 alcoholic drinks per week is associated with a small increase in the risk of breast cancer, and consumption in both earlier and later adult life is also associated with an increased risk, according to a study in the November 2 issue of JAMA.
“In many studies, higher consumption of alcohol has been associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. However, the effect of …

16 Concerned Scientists: Chill Out, No Need To Freak Over Anthropogenic Global Warming
27 Jan 2012 8:23 am William Teach

Why? Because “There’s no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to ‘decarbonize’ the world’s economy.” After a few paragraphs describing how not every scientist is a Warmist, and the numbers who are opting out of previous held beliefs that Mankind is mostly or solely at fault, we get to (h/t Climate Depot)
(Wall Street Journal) In spite of a multidecade international campaign to enforce the message that increasing amounts of the “pollutant” carbon dioxide will destroy civilization, large numbers of scientists, many very prominent, share the opinions of Dr. Giaever. And …

A Good, Pro-Life Hollywood Story
3 Jan 2012 1:33 pm Warner Todd Huston

Here at the site we often take Hollywood to task for its outrageous liberalism, and rightfully so. Of course it’s our job to look for the worst cases to alert you all about the nagging left-wing bias. But occasionally there are stories that are good ones and it is incumbent upon us to report those, too. This is one of those stories.
More often than not when we have stories out of Hollywood about life issues it is invariably a pro-abortion tale and in the case of scientific studies, it is …

It keeps going and going and going . . .
27 Nov 2011 6:23 am Craig Newmark

No, not the Energizer bunny. The Voyager spacecraft.

“Eye of Sauron” galaxy
26 Nov 2011 6:21 am Craig Newmark

“43 million light years away from Earth, NGC 4151, named by astronomers, Eye of Sauron, after the all-seeing symbol of evil in The Lord Of The Rings, is one of the nearest galaxies to Earth to contain an actively-growing black hole.”
Here’s a tip: you want to stay far, far away from an “actively-growing” black hole.

Yikes
30 Oct 2011 5:59 am Craig Newmark

“Billion-Ton Comet May Have Missed Earth by a Few Hundred Kilometers in 1883″.

Cult of Global Warming Is Losing Influence
24 Oct 2011 2:15 am Michael Barone

Religious faith is a source of strength in many people’s lives. But religious faith when taken too far can prove ludicrous — or disastrous.
On Oct. 22, 1844, thousand of Millerites, having sold all their possessions, climbed to the top of hills in Upstate New York to await the return of Jesus and the end of the world. They suffered “the great disappointment” when it didn’t happen.
In 1212, or so the legends go, thousands of Children’s Crusaders set off from France and Germany expecting the sea to part so they could …

“The Supernova Closest to Earth–A Glowing Ring 6 Trillion Miles in Diameter”
2 Oct 2011 6:11 am Craig Newmark

A couple of supernova facts I didn’t know:
Dr. Richard Mushotzky of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, derived a figure of 1 billion supernovae per year, or 30 supernovae per second in the observable Universe!
Dr. Richard Mushotzky of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, derived a figure of 1 billion supernovae per year, or 30 supernovae per second in the observable Universe!

“Meteorite did kill the dinosaurs, fossil shows”
10 Sep 2011 5:26 am Craig Newmark

Now that that’s settled, can we cure cancer? Please?

“Scientists Warn Of ‘Planet Of The Apes’ Scenario”
27 Jul 2011 7:07 am John Hawkins

You WANT to laugh at this, but….
Their report calls for a new rules to supervise sensitive research that involves humanising animals.
One area of concern is “Category Three” experiments which may raise “very strong ethical concerns” and should be banned.
An example given is the creation of primates with distinctly human characteristics, such as speech.
Exactly the same scenario is portrayed in the new movie Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, in which scientists searching for an Alzheimer’s cure create a new breed of ape with human-like intelligence.
The report also acknowledges the …

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