I know you’re all busy fracking that poll, but this is relevant. It’s all about the oil, and Charles Pierce always puts it so well. As we await the decision on whether or not TransCanada will get to complete the northern leg of our old friend, the Keystone XL pipeline, the continent-spanning death-funnel aimed at …
Category Archive: Science
Jun 19 2013
Go frack this poll
The Ventura County Star has a poll up on hydraulic fracturing in California: How concerned are you about fracking (hydraulic fracturing) in California? I have little or no concern about it. I’m concerned about its effects on water and the environment. I’m concerned about a possible link to earthquakes. I’m concerned that overregulation of it …
Jun 18 2013
Say goodbye
Oops, too late. The Western Black Rhino has been officially declared extinct. In case you were wondering how that happened… In happier times:
Jun 18 2013
Do the creationist shuffle and twist!
Don’t you hate it when you get up in the morning and the first thing you read on the internet is the news that your entire career has been a waste of time, your whole field of study has collapsed, and you’re going to have to rethink your entire future? Happens to me all the …
Jun 18 2013
Well, I do like oranges…
See, if bees go extinct, we’ll be fine. We don’t need that many choices anyway. Why when they tell me I could lose all hope of ever eating one again, do I suddenly have a craving for apples?
Jun 17 2013
Progressive policies are creeping in everywhere despite you
We sometimes focus too hard on the struggle with the regressive jerks who squawk and scream on the internet, but I have to tell you — they are completely irrelevant to major policy initiatives in academia (note: this does not mean academics can’t be assholes, too, it just means policies try to be more enlightened). …
Jun 15 2013
I’m a professional “biologist”!
Vox Day/Theodore Beale really is hilariously easy to trigger into paroxysms of foolishness. He now refers to me as a professional "biologist" in those lovely scare quotes, because he thinks his understanding of “genetic science” is better than mine. He explains what he meant by his remarks that he, a white man, and NK Jemisin, …
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