Category: General

Sci­ence is a way of gov­ern­ing, not just some­thing to be gov­erned. Sci­ence offers a method­ol­o­gy and phi­los­o­phy root­ed in evi­dence, kept in check by per­sis­tent inquiry, and bound­ed by the con­straints of a self-crit­i­­cal and rig­or­ous method. Sci­ence is a lens through which we can and should visu­al­ize and solve com­plex prob­lems, orga­nize gov­ern­ment… Con­tin­ue read­ing Seed Mag­a­zine Endors­es Sen. Oba­ma for President

From the NY Times (empha­sis added by me): The Nobel Prize in Med­i­cine was award­ed Mon­day to three Euro­pean sci­en­tists who had dis­cov­ered virus­es behind two dev­as­tat­ing ill­ness­es, AIDS and cer­vi­cal can­cer.  The oth­er half of the $1.4 mil­lion award will go to a Ger­man physi­­cian-sci­en­tist, Dr. Har­ald zur Hausen, 72, for his dis­cov­ery of H.P.V.,… Con­tin­ue read­ing 2008 Nobel for Medicine

It seems that a month of high gas prices have been enough to weak­en the Amer­i­can resolve of dri­ving the biggest vehi­cles on the plan­et. Most rea­sons for why we drove larg­er vehi­cles than, say, our Euro­pean or Asian coun­ter­parts was that we had more space and longer dis­tances to trav­el. I think it’s pret­ty… Con­tin­ue read­ing How to Fell a Giant

NASA had put the odds at around 50% of hav­ing a suc­cess­ful land­ing near the North Pole of Mars. Their track record of Mars mis­sions thus far was­n’t even that high (55% of mis­sions had been lost). How­ev­er, with amaz­ing suc­cess­es like the two rovers who have sim­ply kept going, that coin-toss of chance seemed… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Pheonix Has Landed