Of all the victims of the federal government’s suppression of science, the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) was perhaps the most important. The ELA, comprised of 58 freshwater lakes along with accommodation and laboratories, is a unique Canadian scientific research facility, the only site in the world where whole lake-experimentation is
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Dead Wild Roses: Solar Freakin’ Roadways!
An exciting update on my recent post on solar roadways. Scott and Julie have an Indiegogo campaign (like kickstarter, but not) and they were looking for $1 million to fund production of their solar roadway hexagons. They have made their goal with a few days left and are currently just
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Can We Trust Scientists?
Damn right we can, as long the evidence they present present the most accurate view of reality. Religious claims do not do a good job of describing the reality we live in, they are inaccurate, rely on hearsay and reflect an ignorant and scared world view. Filed under: Religion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Minute Physics – How to See Without Glasses
As a bespectacled individual, I was hoping for something a little more high tech. 🙂 On the upside, it is good to know when you’re in a pinch. Filed under: Science Tagged: How to See Without Glasses, Minute Physics, Physics, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Climate Change – Bill Moyers and David Suzuki
Why is it that we bow down before the market? It is not a fundamental force of nature, yet we in society are instructed to think of it as such. Filed under: Politics, Science Tagged: Bill Moyers, Climate Change, David Suzuki, Economics
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Welcome Back Polio…
Many thanks to anti-vaxers and of course the CIA for doing the stupid shite they are famous for and making the world a worse place in the process. Filed under: Medicine, Science Tagged: Medicine, Polio, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Solar Powered Roads – A Followup
A while ago I wrote a post, Roads: Why Are They Still Asphalt? In it I expressed my desire for the future of road materials. No more hours idling in construction zones as they pour more oil to patch another season’s worth of a billion or so potholes. Better drainage and more
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Solar Powered Roads – A Followup
A while ago I wrote a post, Roads: Why Are They Still Asphalt? In it I expressed my desire for the future of road materials. No more hours idling in construction zones as they pour more oil to patch another season’s worth of a billion or so potholes. Better drainage and more
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Hero of the Day: Neil deGrasse Tyson
The source of many major problems in society is an overwhelming lack of science awareness. Climate change, evolution, vaccinations, homoeopathy – none of these should be creating any kind of controversy anywhere. The science on each of these issues is pretty damn clear. It is not the case that everyone need
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Hero of the Day: Neil deGrasse Tyson
The source of many major problems in society is an overwhelming lack of science awareness. Climate change, evolution, vaccinations, homoeopathy – none of these should be creating any kind of controversy anywhere. The science on each of these issues is pretty damn clear. It is not the case that everyone need
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Statistically Fair Climate Change Debate
John Oliver has it right. Who “gives a shit” if 1 in 4 Americans are wrong about a fact? The “news” should stop polling to find out what proportion of Americans are wrong, unless they want the rest of the world to laugh harder at them. Do owls exist? Are
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Astrophotography ramps it up a notch
This is incredible! I didn't think this kind of astrophotography was going to be possible so soon! cbc.ca/news/technolog… #space— John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) May 13, 2014 The ability to photograph light from a planet around a distant star is not something that was scientifically possible in the 1990s and last decade,
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
The Choice.
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: How many chords?
How many chords does a musician need to know? How many does an amateur musician who plays mostly popular, folk and blues music, need to know? My first answer has always been, “all of them” because you never know when you need them. But that’s not realistic. After all, there
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Seeing evolution in action
The pop-science notion is that evolution takes a long time. Millennia, many millennia; even millions of years. But is that always true? Can one actually see and measure evolution in action? Can it happen in such a short time as to be recorded? Peter and Rosemary Grant say they have. And
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: World Immunization Week – April 24th – 30th
A helpful infographic from the WHO. Filed under: Education, Medicine, Science Tagged: DWR PSA, Immunization Week, WHO
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: World Immunization Week – April 24th – 30th
A helpful infographic from the WHO. (having trouble reading the poster? “control + and control – ” may be able to help you out check the large version) Filed under: Education, Medicine, Science Tagged: DWR PSA, Immunization Week, WHO
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Consequences of Climate Change: Timeframe, Our Lifetime.
Signed, Sealed and Delivered. Climate denialists, the exit is over there on the right. Ta-ta. Filed under: Science Tagged: AGW, Climate Change, Climate Science, PotHoler54, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Consequences of Climate Change: Timeframe, Our Lifetime.
Signed, Sealed and Delivered. Climate denialists, the exit is over there on the right. Ta-ta. Filed under: Science Tagged: AGW, Climate Change, Climate Science, PotHoler54, Science
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Lost Shakespeare play found?
Cardenio. Written by William Shakespeare. Based on an episode in Miguel Cervantes’ novel, Don Quixote. The novel was translated from Spanish into English in 1612. The play was known once, but lost. Performed by the King’s Men in 1613, the same year Shakespeare penned Henry VIII, or All is True
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