Category Archives: ranting

Lecture notes

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Chris Rowan

In which I wonder whether I’m any good at lecturing or not.
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Categories: academic life, ranting, science education

What is a manned space programme actually for?

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Chris Rowan

I bet more people currently know the name of a valiant little Mars rover than know the names of the current astronauts on the ISS.
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Categories: general science, planets, ranting

Fox News: volcanic coal kills off dinosaurs before they even evolved

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Chris Rowan

I’d prefer churnalism to gratuitous insertion of wrong.
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Categories: general science, public science, ranting, science education

Volcano monitoring good: Republican antiscientism getting tedious

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Chris Rowan

The geoblogosphere has rightly been up in arms today about the idiotic comments of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who ended his list of examples of what he viewed as wasteful spending in the US stimulus bill by decrying the $140 … Continue reading →

Categories: antiscience, environment, geohazards, ranting