MP Bulletin Extra: James Cameron begins 10-hour dive Mariana Trench
Film director James Cameron has begun an attempt to become the first person in 50 years to visit the deepest part of the ocean. Cameron is travelling 11km (7 miles) down to the Mariana Trench in the...
View ArticleMonterey Bay’s Amazing Visitor
In the early morning hours of this, the first day of April, a rare visitor to Monterey Bay invited himself into one of the open sea exhibits of the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Affectionately, dubbed...
View ArticleThe Daily Scoop: Science, religion and policy – Part 1
The Daily Scoop will delve into a controversial area today. Spurred by the direction a recent discussion took and coupled with the discovery of the article here examining some intersections of...
View ArticleThe Daily Scoop: Science, religion and policy – Part 2 [Video]
Continuing with today’s theme Part 2 is the 2007 award winning, NOVA documentary about the landmark court case challenging the Dover, Pennsylvania school district’s policy advocating intelligent...
View ArticleDo We Still Need Earth Day?
This is the first Earth Day I have made an effort to take part in its celebration. My regular readers may find this a bit odd given the topics about which I opine. As an educated environmental...
View ArticleDaily Scoop Xtra: Is Climate Change Hitting Home?
After a year of freakish and destructive weather, Americans are finally waking up to the dangers of climate change By Bill McKibben The Williams River was so languid and lovely last Saturday morning...
View ArticleMP Bulletin Extra: Ancient impact crater may be largest ever found [video]
Scientists in Greenland have uncovered evidence for what may be the oldest impact crater ever found. And it would be hard to find one much older, because Greenland has some of the oldest exposed rock...
View ArticleFox “News” Global Ice Conundrum
A while back Fox News’s Steve Doocy hosted a report about the growth of glaciers in Asia as an indictment of the science which indicates global declines in ice sheets. Mr. Doocy deferred to the...
View ArticleDaily Scoop: Does Republican’s 9,000 year old Earth hold water?
U.S. House Rep. Paul Broun, a Georgia Republican, doesn’t believe in evolution, the Big Bang theory, or the teachings of embryology. In fact, in a Sept. 27 talk at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell,...
View ArticleDid the Bush Administration Emigrate to Canada?
Canada is witnessing a similar heavy-handed control over government scientists as the United States saw under the George W. Bush administration and its censorship of climate research and other...
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