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The Montreal Protocol: Saving Earth’s vital ozone layer

January 29, 2019 Renee Shur Climate Change, Environment, Science, Technology Leave a comment

In 1985, three British scientists working at the British Antarctic Survey stunned the world when they discovered that at certain times of the year

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Lima beans, the scientific method, and saving the planet

December 28, 2018 Renee Shur Environment, Science, Survey, Widgets: Science/Technology Leave a comment

Do you remember your first brush with the scientific method? For most of us, the six steps at the core of the scientific method

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Seven words now banned at the Centers for Disease Control

December 16, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Language/Words, Science, Widgets: Science/Technology Leave a comment

If you work at the Centers for Disease Control—the nation’s top public health agency—you are now officially banned from using the following seven words:

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Deleting science from EPA’s Office of Science and Technology

March 13, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Climate Change, Government, Science, Widgets: Science/Technology One comment

The EPA’s Office of Science and Technology [OST] no longer includes the word science in its mission statement. That’s a big effing deal, says

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Political quotes: Unanswerable questions

December 27, 2016 Christopher Burke Humor, Ideas, Science One comment

This quotation from a bona fide scientist offers a fitting reproach to the anti-science Republicans who want us to live in their don’t-question-me world.

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Survey: Do you believe in science?

February 5, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Demographics/Polls, Education, Republican Brain, Republicans, Science, Survey 2 comments

How much of science do people believe? In our 2016 survey, we did not ask “What weighs more, a ton of steel or a

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Al Gore proposes “Scientific Freedom Restoration Act”

April 1, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Climate Change, Humor, Senate Leave a comment

Former Vice President Al Gore met with Congressional leaders today to propose the Scientific Freedom Restoration Act. The purpose of the bill is to

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I’ve got a crush on you, Andy Borowitz

October 20, 2014 Renee Shur Humor Leave a comment

Call me crazy. Call me immature. Or call me deluded. Maybe I should be called all of the above because at my age I’m

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Science supports climate change reality: It’s time for the media to get on board

November 13, 2013 Renee Shur Climate Change, Environment, Media, Science Leave a comment

How times change. It seems just yesterday when Al Gore was being vilified as America’s über-exaggerator for his warning in 2006 of the coming

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Creating water from thin air

May 10, 2012 Madonna Gauding Environment, Poverty, Technology One comment

Our planet’s supply of clean drinking water is dwindling, and lack of clean water is one of the many environmental problems looming in our

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In case you missed it

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  • War, huh (good God y’all) What is it good for? Absolutely nothing
  • Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation Should’ve Been a Celebration
  • How Loose Lips from Obama Hurt America and the World

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