Category Archives: ranting

What is a manned space programme actually for?

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

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

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

What is education for, anyway?

It’s about more than passing tests – if we do it right.
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Categories: general science, public science, ranting

Note to media: “speculation” is not a synonym for “discovery”

breathless reporting from the AAAS conference is starting to annoy me.
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Categories: general science, planets, public science, ranting