Science & Society
- 60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1954
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Nature is never inexplicable ...
Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:46pm
- 60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1955
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Post-apocalyptic Fundamentalism Leigh Brackett's The Long Tomorrow is one of many post-apocalyptic novels that envision society returned to a 19th century agrarian state. The rural settings of these novels are commonly used to explore life in a socie ...
Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:47pm
- 60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1956
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Survivalism, British Style John Christopher’s 1956 No Blade of Grass is an extremely compelling page turner that portrays our moral traditions and social glue as being so fragile that they can be swept away in a day. Compassion, mercy, and even friendline ...
Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:48pm
- Apocalypse 1957: On The Beach
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There will be no survivors Exactly what nuclear world war would look like was a matter of diverse opinion in the nuclear apocalypse novels of the 1950‘s. Many post-apocalyptic novels of this decade portrayed World War III as an essentially known if more e ...
Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:48pm
- Cheap Space Flight Can Lead To Clean Space Based Solar Power. So Why Do Environmentalist Oppose Space Science?
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G enerating energy from solar power satellites in space is the long-term final solution to the energy needs of humanity. Cheap easy access to space is crucial for this. In fact, we live at an important time where if we do not use the energy, we have wisel ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 26 2021 - 9:54am
- Science Journalists Are Optimistic About Their Field
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Recent survey results by SciDev.Net/CABI reveal that the majority of science journalists (633 respondents from 77 countries) believe that the field is not consolidating the way some other mainstream/legacy journalism specialties are. ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 29 2021 - 1:33pm
- Gun Deaths Rose 30% During The Pandemic
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During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, 28 states experienced higher gun deaths, including suicides. New York, Minnesota, and Michigan saw numbers go up more than 100 percent, according to a recent paper. Only Alaska, which often leads the US, had ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 2 2021 - 10:45am
- Without The COVID-19 Pandemic, Would Trump Have Won Reelection?
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Corporate journalists and other pundits have argued that the 2020 election was a referendum on how the administration handled the COVID-19 pandemic. Is that true? ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2021 - 5:11pm
- The 2020 Decadal Survey: Don't Listen To Chanda Prescod-Weinstein TMT Should Be Built. The Indigenous Stakeholders Spoke Through The Hawaiian Legal Process Already.
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A ccording to the 2020 Decadal survey published by the National Academies of science the US Large telescope program including the Thirty Meter Telescope are the number one priorities for ground based astronomy in the US. For many good reasons. However, t ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Nov 5 2021 - 8:29am
- Homeschooled Kids Become Adults With Greater Character Strengths And Fewer Risky Health Behaviors
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What do Taylor Swift, the Jonas brothers, and Miley Cyrus share in common? They're all great musicians and nice people. They were also home schooled. A new study examining how homeschooling affected adolescents’ character, health and well-being found ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2021 - 3:37pm
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