Science & Society

Awful FALSE Christmas Eve Video With 3.2 Million Views Claims Small Nuclear Exchange Plunges World Into-25°C Deep Freeze

This is awful. A science writer and video producer who decided Christmas Eve is just the right time to publish a video claiming FALSELY that a small nuclear exchange of 100 nuclear weapons would destroy all world agriculture for decades. This is based on ...

Article - Robert Walker - Feb 5 2018 - 12:48pm

Paid The Bill But Power Still Shut Off By ComEd, A Libertarian And Scientific Case For Solar Panels In Winter. UPDATE

W e all pay our electric and gas bills in winter with more urgency than in summer because cold can kill you.  Without both electricity and gas modern furnaces will not function.  So we pay and think that the cold will be at bay for a month.  Then my famil ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jan 10 2018 - 9:30am

Winter Olympics Talks- Korean Hopes For Reunification- US Can't Attack Without Warning US Civilians In South Korea

North Korea is going to send a team to the Winter Olympics in South Korea. The news is looking promising with a significant thawing of relations between the two Koreas in advance of the Winter Olympics. High level talks have begun already between North an ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jan 14 2018 - 4:52pm

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The title of this post is the password code required to connect to my wireless network at home. The service, provided by the Italian internet provider Fastweb, has been discontinued as I moved to Padova from Venice, so you can't really do much with th ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 10 2018 - 3:41am

Why Is Illegal Immigration- And Everything Else- Once Again More Important Than Science?

Yesterday, Democrats in the U.S. Senate which, along with the House of Representatives, form the two chambers of Congress, which are one of the three branches of government,(1) refused to fund a "continuing resolution" to essentially keep funding ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 20 2018 - 2:07pm

RIP To Science 2.0 Journalist Greg Critser

Science 2.0 community, it is with sadness that I inform you of the passing of long-time science journalist Greg Critser, the earliest science journalist to sign up on this site, in 2007. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 22 2018 - 11:57am

The Doomsday Clock Is More Accurately A ‘Symbolic Clock For Averting Disasters’

We get a regular announcment by the bulletin of Atomic Scientists at this time of year every year. It doesn't mean anything is going to happen soon. Indeed their focus is on the long term, not the short term. For instance the Cuban missile crisis did ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jan 28 2018 - 5:26pm

If Mom Had An Abortion, Teens More Likely To Have One Also

In the developed world, abortions are common despite ubiquitous condoms, birth control and even the "morning after pill"- about 6.7 million per year. In Canada, the teen pregnancy rate is 28 per 1000, with more than 50 percent of those ending in ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2018 - 4:42pm

NO NO NO- A Magnetic Pole Flip Will Not Make Parts Of Earth Uninhabitable

This has been running in numerous sensationalist press stories and other outlets with less careful journalists. It’s all based on a story in Undark by a journalist promoting their new book. And it is full of nonsense, utter codswallop. Here is the origina ...

Article - Robert Walker - Feb 4 2018 - 6:46am

恭賀新禧 And The Moon

To observers in much of North America and East Asia, on January 31 st, the second full moon of the month, passed through Earth’s shadow in a  Super Blue Blood Moon. ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Mar 1 2018 - 1:19pm