The story is famous and might be just a bit apocryphal, how Galileo turned his new telescope on the sky and offered to show many important people what he had found. They refused to look, afraid to compromise the world view that bound them to their place and time. Afraid,…
Truly, I can't wait. Especially in light of the way George W. Bush has disparaged science, screwed the public and worried mostly about helping big business. It all comes together in this post by Think Progress about Bush's Administrator for the EPA, Stephen Johnson: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson…
I just finished watching a video on how to dissect a human corpse in order to learn about skin, cutaneous nerves and lymph nodes (warning to the squeamish: There's no sugar-coating here--it's a highly graphic lesson on how to do a human dissection). I thought to myself: "This is incredible. …
We've tried to make sense of the huge barely-vetted amount allocated to bailing out failed financial companies. Here is a good view, comparing it to other government programs (adjusted for inflation), such as the Louisiana Purchase, Viet Nam, and the NASA all-time total budget: Chart from VoltageCreative.com Of note to…
Ed adds a nice commentary at the end of his latest post, detailing James Richardson's call for the GOP to get real and stop pandering to ignorance and bigotry: The country has changed dramatically over the last 30 years. With more and more gay and lesbian Americans coming out of…