http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner en-us Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:14:33 -0700 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:10:36 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d22-The-CRU-email-hack?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner A lot of virtual ink has been spilled over a set of emails that were stolen from a university computer. This article supports a post that will appear on Daily Kos tomorrow (Sunday) and records some questions and answers between myself and Prof. Micha... climate change Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:10:36 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d22-The-CRU-email-hack?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Genentech-the-ventriloquist?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner Yesterday, we talked about Genentech in the early years. Today we look at an example of what they have become. Nor are they alone; I chose Genentech simply because they're an interesting company. But all large companies do this stuff and not only do ... biotechnology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:58:17 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Genentech-the-ventriloquist?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d19-Lifestyles-of-the-slimy-and-contagious?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner Back in 1885, a German-Austrian pediatrician by the name of Theodor Escherich was investigating an unusually high incidence of infant mortality due to severe diarrhea. Using the newer, more powerful microscopes, he soon isolated a rod shaped bacteria... biotechnology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:48:14 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d19-Lifestyles-of-the-slimy-and-contagious?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d19-Even-more-Palin?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner Just when you thought is was safe to read this site, I have more Sarah Palin and evolution. This quote also via my old friend Ed Brayton: "But your dad's a science teacher," Schmidt objected. "Yes." [Said Palin] "Then you kno... creationism Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:29:50 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m7d27-Even-more-Palin?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d18-Flashback-to-irony?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner Via Grist, the caption reads "EVERYDAY HUMBLE SUPPLIES ENOUGH ENERGY TO MELT 7 MILLION TONS OF GLACIER!"   Reportedly from a 1962 edition of Life Magazine -- no way to verify it without having an original copy of that edition, and I d... climate change Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:11:58 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d18-Flashback-to-irony?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d18-Send-the-immigrants-back-home?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner Via my old creationism fight'n friend Ed Brayton, this guy punked the teabagging glibertarians hard. He starts off complaining about immigrants for taking jobs and bringing crime and disease to America. He seems to want to send the immigrants back! A... other Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:38:48 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d18-Send-the-immigrants-back-home?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d17-Texas-power-from-US-made-wind-turbines?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner After some pressure and political outrage, a Chinese-American consortium that sparked anger when it became known they would manufacture wind power turbines overseas, has said they will actually do the work here in the states and presumably employ Ame... energy Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:51:12 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d17-Texas-power-from-US-made-wind-turbines?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d17-Piling-on-Palin?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner I received a few emails complaining about my 'tone' in yesterday's post on Palin regarding a few references she reportedly made to creationism and evolution in her latest bestselling book. One reader objected to the title, Bible Spice. So let me set ... creationism Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:49:53 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d17-Piling-on-Palin?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Bible-Spice-talks-creationism?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner Sarah Palin's new book contains a graf or two about creationism. Unsurprisingly, the former Alaskan governor doesn't like evolution, at least according to this NYT review: Elsewhere in this volume she talks about creationism, saying she “didn&... creationism Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:34:36 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Bible-Spice-talks-creationism?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d15-Science-Monday?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner A few science-y events and announcements this coming week in Texas. If you have an event or item you'd like listed, please contact me at darksydothemoon AT aol DOT com. Texas school children may soon have a new item or two to carry in their book... Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:23:47 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d15-Science-Monday?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d14-Say-hello-to-a-titanic-ancestor?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner It's called Aardonyx celestae, Latin for "Earth Claw," a partially bipedal dino about the size of a horse. What's exciting is new evidence unearthed in South Africa suggests it, or something closely related to it, may have given rise to the... dinosaurs Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:10:18 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d14-Say-hello-to-a-titanic-ancestor?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d14-This-week-in-science?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner Cross posted from Daily Kos. Cold snaps, record heat waves, and droughts will come and go all over the planet regardless if there's climate change in progress or not. Establishing causality is exceedingly difficult in a system as complex as weather ... Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:34:45 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d14-This-week-in-science?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d13-Theres-water-on-that-there-moon?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner Remember the moon smashing probe that was shown live on television last month and seemed to fizzle? Well it was worth it after all: Substantial water reserves appear to be present beneath the lunar surface, Nasa announced today.Crashing in two separa... Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:21:31 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d13-Theres-water-on-that-there-moon?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d12-16-yearold-Texan-leaves-hospital-with-mechanical-heart-assist-device?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner A 16 year-old Texas boy has left the hospital after being equipped with a partial mechanical heart: "When I first saw him, he was very short of breath," Dr. David Morales, a pediatric cardiovascular surgeon at Texas Children's Heart Center ... healthcare Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:49:50 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d12-16-yearold-Texan-leaves-hospital-with-mechanical-heart-assist-device?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Acceptance-of-evolution-around-the-world?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner I'm doing some research for a friend and I came across these statistics. In a poll conducted by Gallup around February 12, 2009, chosen because it coincided with Darwin's 200th birthday, 39% of respondents said they "believed in evolution,"... creationism Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:53:19 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Acceptance-of-evolution-around-the-world?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d11-The-Large-Hadron-Collider-and-those-meddling-time-travelers?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a super-duper atom smasher that whirls two tiny particles around a long circular track until they're going near the speed of light in opposite directions. Then it smashes them together like a particle demolition der... physics Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:40:46 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d11-The-Large-Hadron-Collider-and-those-meddling-time-travelers?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d10-Secrets-of-the-Milky-Way?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner The earth may be a relatively small planet, and our sun may be an average yellow-white star orbiting in the outskirts of a galaxy. But our Milky Way Galaxy is, as galaxies go, quite a sight. It's a big, respectable, spiral galaxy. Unfortunately for o... space exploration Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:24:32 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d10-Secrets-of-the-Milky-Way?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d10-The-millennium-bug-is-so-1999?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner People of Earth: For a current end-o-the world threat, you can check in with Nibiru central and Nancy Leider, a self described psychic emissary for the aliens beings of Zeta Reticuli, called Zetas, here on ZetaTalk. Nibiru itself is a hypothetical pl... pseudoscience Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:46:47 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d10-The-millennium-bug-is-so-1999?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d9-Come-sail-away?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner What with commercial rockets and space elevators covered here in the last few days, solar sails make a logical addition. A solar sail is exactly what it sounds like: a sheet of material propelled through interplanetary space by the solar wind in much... space exploration Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:14:50 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d9-Come-sail-away?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d9-Ida?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner In the face of significant wind shear and seasonal cooling, Tropical Storm Ida has, somehow, managed to form, thread the needle between two islands, pass over the warm loop current, went to category 1 hurricane strength and then fell back to tropical... hurricane season Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:30:16 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d9-Ida?cid=exrss-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner