Science

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Climate skeptic science does not compute
RealClimate.org: Where junk science gets shredded into tiny pieces.
Not a drop to drink
Pointing out that it takes 800 gallons of water to make one hamburger, a British writer argues that water shortage is the "defining crisis" of our time.
The original mad scientist
The 16th century alchemist known as Paracelsus was a drunken, foul-mouthed coot -- and the unlikely father of modern medicine.
Taking the pulse of "Pulse"
A Big Book on science, technology and nature joins the blogosphere.
"Religious belief itself is an adaptation"
Sociobiology founder Edward O. Wilson explains why we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions, denies that "evolutionism" is a faith, and says that heaven, if it existed, would be hell.
Secrets of the cosmos
Could the universe be a giant computer? A new book argues just that, and unlocks some great scientific mysteries along the way.
Filtering the China filters
Studying up on the Middle Kingdom: An online avalanche.
Go Blue! Michigan scores more women science faculty
Recruitment program scientifically proven to work!
Ice queen
In Antarctica, Gretchen Legler found a tribe of eccentrics living at 70-below under the biggest ozone hole on earth. She also found love.
The Big Idea: No more breakthroughs
We live in a period of explosive scientific progress. But admitting that science has limits may be our greatest achievement.
Weird science
Are we descendants of clay? Is rock slime related to Grandpa? A fantastic new book tours the competing theories of how life on Earth began 4 billion years ago.
We see dead people?
In a follow-up to her bestselling "Stiff," Mary Roach searches for proof of the afterlife -- and finds some startling (and scary) evidence.
The know-nothings
Pro-business Republicans and the religious right have joined in a frighteningly successful campaign to undermine the findings of science.
"No one can say they didn't see it coming"
In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.
Keeping America safer -- with science
As more evidence surfaces that the Bush administration can't be bothered with scientific accuracy, the ACLU tries framing science as a national security issue.
Everything you always wanted to know about the stem cell debate
George Bush's opposition to stem cell research is intellectually and morally incoherent. Here's why.
Does George Bush even know what science is?
A new political advocacy organization, Scientists and Engineers for Change, is pretty sure the answer is no. And so they're going on the warpath.
"The Beast in the Garden" by David Baron
It's no illusion -- mountain lions are attacking more humans than they used to. And why not? After all, we lured the big cats into our suburbs and taught them to view us as food.
"In the Name of Science" by Andrew Goliszek
From the Tuskegee study to Josef Mengele, from soldiers forced to march into A-bomb clouds to the CIA's secret LSD trials, a biologist provides a frightening tour of the 20th century's most evil experiments.
They ban textbooks, don't they?
Texas school officials rejected a widely used environmental textbook, claiming it was filled with errors. The author says they're censoring him because they didn't like his green views -- and he's suing.
Y are men necessary?
Two new books on genetics explore how the Y-chromosome divides males from females -- and ask whether male humans are headed for the biological dustbin.
Dead man decomposing
An excerpt from "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers," by Mary Roach.
Move over, Dr. Phil!
Dr. Tatiana mostly offers advice on banana slug penis problems and sponge louse jealousy, but we can all gain from her sexual wisdom.
Big trouble in the world of "Big Physics"
Six months ago, Jan Hendrik Schön seemed like a slam dunk nominee for a Nobel prize. Then some of his colleagues started to take a closer look at his research.
Sometimes a snake orgy is just a snake orgy
A new book examines what we can and can't learn about sex from watching bonobos, birds and earwigs.
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