A Chemical (Battle) Cry
Last fall, the respected magazine, Scientific American, posted an intriguing (or alarming, depending on one’s point of view) infographic titled “The Great Chemical Unknown.” It noted that an estimated...
View ArticleMichelle Bachmann: Public health spokeswoman, Rick Perry strategist, partisan...
Michelle Bachmann’s non-factual (and non-sensical) claim that the HPV vaccine can cause mental retardation has gotten an enormous amount of attention in the press over the past 48 hours. (See, for...
View ArticleEdward Jay Epstein “submits that Fareed Zakaria is not guilty of plagiarism.”...
I won’t dwell on this for too long, but: Last week, Fareed Zakaria was suspended from both Time and CNN for plagiarizing a portion of a column (for Time) and a blog post (for CNN) on gun control from a...
View ArticleGeologic time vs. absolute time
Tomorrow I’ll post an interview with Dr. Randall Irmis, a geologist and paleobiologist working on the Colorado Plateau Coring Project. Today, I offer some background information on the geologic time...
View ArticleDown with time changes plus the NY Times hearty series on cardio developments
WAIT A SECOND It must have seemed like a good idea at the time, the time being 1972, a time before computers ran the world. That’s when it was decided that a way must be invented to keep precision...
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