Tag: science
member name: David K.
|
March 04, 2009 02:45 PM EST --
So announces Margaret Mittelbach, as she introduces that evening's headliner: a microbiologist from Columbia University, who will talk about vertical farming within skyscrapers to create sustainable . . .
more
|
|
June 11, 2009 03:43 PM EDT --
UPDATED: The House has now voted 307-97 to pass the bill and send it on to President Obama to sign, which he as indicated he plans to do. This was a clear bipartisan measure.
Yesterday . . .
more
|
|
September 03, 2009 03:38 PM EDT --
At a recent meeting of the American Chemical Society , the worlds largest professional scientific society, a researcher from Japan presented a paper demonstrating that plastics floating in the ocean . . .
more
|
|
October 07, 2009 12:59 PM EDT --
It's that time of year again...Nobel Prize week. Each day the Nobel Prize committee will announce the winners of this year's awards for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, . . .
more
|
|
October 26, 2007 04:04 PM EDT --
James D. Watson, who shared a 1962 Nobel prize for discovering the structure of DNA, announced his retirement Thursday after controversy erupted over comments he made suggesting that black people are . . .
more
|
|
March 01, 2009 09:05 AM EST --
News came this week that USEPA Administrator Lisa Jackson won't decide for several months the tricky issue of how much ethanol should be blended into gasoline. EPA is in discussions with the Department . . .
more
|
|
July 24, 2009 06:55 PM EDT --
I’ll start by highly recommending this book. Especially to scientists or those interested in science. As suggested by the title – Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy . . .
more
|
|
February 01, 2009 09:58 AM EST --
All eyes in the United States have been on the $813 billion economic stimulus package passed last week by the US House of Representatives. One line item that many may have missed is an amendment that . . .
more
|
|
February 07, 2009 07:59 AM EST --
A recent study published in the journal Environmental Science and Policy (see full citation at end) calls for greater efforts to enhance the use of scientific evidence in environmental policy decisions. . . .
more
|
|
March 25, 2009 05:11 PM EDT --
Just out of curiosity since I've posted some articles related to global warming lately, I checked to see what other articles others who have been commenting on mine have written on the subject. . . .
more
|
|
March 29, 2009 10:20 AM EDT --
I mentioned previously the climate change conference held in Copenhagen , which was designed to stimulate some activism on the part of scientists in preparation for December's much anticipated international . . .
more
|
|
April 26, 2009 07:08 AM EDT --
In a surprise move, the US government published in the Thursday, April 23rd Federal Register a " request for public comment " on a scientific integrity memo. This relates to the memorandum . . .
more
|
|
June 16, 2009 05:24 PM EDT --
A new report says that climate change is already happening, and and its effects are on track to get much worse in the coming century. The report, "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States," . . .
more
|
|
September 15, 2009 02:14 PM EDT --
Okay, technically the European Union isn't saying that sushi should be banned. But the EU has recommended listing bluefin tuna as an endangered species. And that could eventually mean that trade of . . .
more
|
|
January 31, 2009 08:05 AM EST --
The European Union's Ecolabel scheme should be beefed up to encourage less use of potentially dangerous chemicals in products, says a report by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) and the European . . .
more
|
|
February 05, 2009 03:32 PM EST --
Scientists have a love/hate relationship with policy makers. We want to "do our science" but not necessarily get all into the whole political rangling thing. On the other hand, it displeases . . .
more
|
|
February 09, 2009 02:36 PM EST --
A doctor in the UK "changed and misreported results" in his research, "creating the appearance of a possible link" between the MMR vaccine and autism, according to an investigation . . .
more
|
|
February 16, 2009 01:49 PM EST --
This past week, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore urged scientists to exert their influence on global climate change. In short, he said that scientists must play a more active role in how their science . . .
more
|
|
March 09, 2009 03:53 PM EDT --
Today, American President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order that lifted the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. The ban was put in place by past-president George W. Bush shortly . . .
more
|
|
March 19, 2009 05:44 PM EDT --
An underlying theme of my posts is how science meets policy. In a recent commentary , UK scientist and Professor Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute and special adviser to UN Secretary General . . .
more
|
|
|
|
