Summary: A superb exercise in consciousness-raising; it paints a detailed picture of the food chains that supply us every day and the environmental and health consequences of each of them. Where does your food come from? If you answered "the supermarket", you're probably like most Americans. And while most people…
Topic: Proposed change to comment policy concerning ill-informed comments regarding A) the scientific method and B) evolution by natural selection. At DI, we’ve had a wide-open comment policy. Until recently, I have rarely rejected comments. The ones I have rejected consisted mostly of preaching (see the current comment policy). I’ve…
I ran across this interesting post recently on Deltoid concerning a list of (supposedly) 650 "scientists" who deny Global Warming is real (or at least, that it's our fault in any way). Inhofe, of course, is Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, champion of one of the brightest red states in…
Are you looking for a really unusual gift idea? I found one at a non-profit Mennonite store in University City, Missouri, Plowsharing Crafts. I spotted this object in the musical instruments section of the store. It looked like an animal's jawbone. The proprietor told me that it was, indeed, "a…
We are about to do a 180 on government attitude toward science. Barack Obama specifically singles out the "scientific process," and urges that we need to listen to scientists "especially when it's inconvenient." [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMlXNrBxM0g&eurl=http://bite-dose.com/science/obama-abandoning-science-fiction-as-he-announces-%E2%80%9Cscience-team%E2%80%9D/[/youtube]