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No Greater Insult: E.O. Wilson Dismisses Richard Dawkins As 'A Journalist'

In the first decade of the the new millennium, there was a lot of hand-wringing about the cutting of science journalism jobs at mainstream news outlets. The groundswell of support was...okay, it was nonexistent, really just limited to science journalists. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 18 2014 - 11:41am - 0 attachments

It's On The Way: Is Your Religion Ready To Meet ET?

... green men or flying saucers. Instead, a 21st century Galileo, using an enormous, 50-meter-diameter telescope, will collect light ... forget this knowledge. Renaissance scholars Copernicus and Galileo put the Earth in motion around the Sun and moved humans away from the ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 9 2014 - 9:00am - 0 attachments

How To Replicate The Tide For $27

Though he is glorified by modern science advocates, Galileo was wrong about a lot of things - for example, when his calculation ... Kepler and math , though they both were clearly right and Galileo was clearly wrong, as every illiterate sailor knew. For $27 Galileo ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 1 2014 - 10:27pm - 0 attachments

Climate Change: It’s Only Human To Exaggerate, But Science Itself Does Not

... Yet such simplifications are the stuff of science. Galileo, for instance, was only able to develop his ideas on gravity by ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 18 2014 - 11:29am - 0 attachments

How Myths And Tabloids Feed On Anomalies In Science

... theory have replaced pre-scientific ideas. For example, Galileo’s observations of planets resulted in heliocentric (sun-centered) ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 1 2014 - 4:48pm - 0 attachments

The Crackpot Conundrum

The field of physics attracts crackpots. It is impossible to completely avoid them, and after a nasty incident in 1952 with an actually mentally ill individual who was upset no one would listen to his theories concluding electrons don't exist, ...

Blog Post - Edward "Henry" Brown - Sep 9 2014 - 6:06pm - 0 attachments

Climate Implicated In Tree Height

... in the world. Composite photo by Thomas Givnish "Since Galileo's time," Givnish says, "people have wondered what determines maximum ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2014 - 3:46pm - 0 attachments

5-Minute Science: Ketchup Packet Cartesian Diver

... Instead it was apparently invented by a student of Galileo, Raffaelo Maggiotti . (Applied Physics) ...

Article - Steve Schuler - Aug 12 2014 - 12:17am - 0 attachments

Big Data

... historical developments. In the ‘classical' mechanics of Galileo and Newton there would have been no room for them. And if now, ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Aug 2 2014 - 10:18am - 0 attachments

No One Expects The Organics Inquisition

... (accessed July 12, 2012) Feature image: Galileo in front of the Roman Inquisition, after a 1857 Painting by Cristiano ...

Article - Norm Benson - Jul 30 2014 - 11:57am - 0 attachments