Blatant Hypocrisy Among Global Warming Skeptics: IPCC Chapter 9
I found this story this morning, an article published on Friday by the Canadian Free Press by global warming skeptics Tom Harris and John McLean (article).…
Read articleCanada’s shameful performance in Bali
As many of you may know, a rather important conference is taking place this week in Bali, Indonesia. This is a United Nations Climate Change conference,…
Read articleReduce, reuse, recycle, or chuck it in the garbage – Do we really know which is best?
The environmentalism movement is currently experiencing an injection of perhaps well-needed popularity. Celebrities who own multiple homes that could each comfortably house the inhabitants of small…
Read articleIs All Science Humour Punny?
I wrote this on my lab’s blackboard about a month ago: I was curious about what sort of jokes the my lab mates and users would…
Read articleA Hunger for Books
This is beautiful. The acceptance speech of Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature this weekend. Well worth a read.
Read articleSENSibility 7: Like Fish? Only 50 years left
Do you really like fish? I really like fish. I like fish and chips at Go Fish near Granville island. I used to devour sushi (before…
Read articlePoverty Begets Poor Eating Habits
I remember hearing this before – but apparently this is the first major American study of its kind: “The Rising Cost of Low-Energy-Density Foods” (Monsivais and…
Read articleDivorce Your Spouse, Harm The Environment – or – “How an English King Killed The Planet 500 Years Ago”
“Environmental Impacts of Divorce” (pdf here) reads the title of an accepted manuscript soon to be published the highly accoladed journal PNAS (press release) You meet…
Read articleTakesies Backsies: Facebook Flouts User Privacy…Again
This whole Web 2.0 “revolution” seems to be sticking, so far. A personalized internet experience is what the internet-using masses want. For those of you unfamiliar…
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The Erosion of Scientific Journalism
By Dave Semeniuk,
Originally published here. I’ve had my doubts with scientific journalism before (see here). My beef was, in short, how can a journalist who has not been…
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