New York Times science reporter Andrew Revkin has recently begun blogging on the subject of Earth’s burgeoning population. Revkin’s new blog - called Dot Earth - carries the great tagline nine billion people, one planet. It’s focused on the fact that, by the middle of this century, Earth’s population is expected to grow […]
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The population cluster bomb
Published October 31st, 2007 in Earth, Human World and Science. 9 CommentsWhy do some people resist science?
Published August 7th, 2007 in Body & Mind, Human World and Science. 77 CommentsThe photo at left is from the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum - which opened in 2007 in northern Kentucky. Its exhibits depict, for example, dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark. The museum’s motto is “prepare to believe.”
Meanwhile, at a May 3, 2007 political debate, three of the 10 Republican candidates for the 2008 Presidential […]
A call for more “joined-up” thinking on science at G8
Published June 5th, 2007 in Human World and Science. 11 CommentsDavid Dickson - who is the director of SciDev.Net - has written a post about the need for more “joined-up” thinking on science at next week’s G8 summit in Germany.
The 33rd G8 summit will take place June 6-8 at the Kempinski Grand Hotel in Heiligendamm, Germany. Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United […]
Congressman to scientists: “science is only one factor”
Published May 29th, 2007 in Human World and Science. 9 CommentsEarlier this month, former U.S. House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert addressed scientists on the role of science in policy-making.
In his address - delivered at the 32nd Forum on Science and Technology Policy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science - Boehlert urged scientists to recognize the uncertainty inherent in many areas of […]
To seek out strange new worlds, including Spock’s home planet
Published May 21st, 2007 in Space and Science. 12 CommentsThe line between science and science fiction is beginning to blur.
Star Trek fans like me know that - in the fictional universe first created by Gene Roddenberry in 1966 and loved by millions since then - Vulcans were the first extraterrestrial species encountered by the human population of Earth some centuries from now. Vulcans […]
Deforestation: the Hidden Cause of Global Warming, from the Independent
Privacy in an Era of Powerful Surveillance Tools, from the AAAS
Hubble Finds Ring of Dark Matter, from Science Daily
Sustainable Economic Development for Island Nations, from WorldChanging
Irish Dolphins Could Have Their Own Brogue, from Seed
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken … John Keats, 1816
This image was released earlier today, in conjunction with a news release about the first map of an extrasolar planet.
This is not the actual map, of course, but instead an artist’s conception of HD 189733b, which […]
If you want to know what blogging looks like, then you should look at this.
It’s a map: a graphical representation of the blogosphere, called “the most explosive social network you’ll never see” by discovermagazine.com, which is hosting the map on its website. It was created by Matthew Hurst, a scientist at Microsoft’s Live Labs. […]
Scientists say Earth-observing satellites are in jeopardy
Published May 2nd, 2007 in Earth, Human World and Science. 4 CommentsWould anyone argue that - as the 21st century progresses - we don’t need a perspective on Earth from the vantage point of space?
And yet Reuters is reporting today that U.S. environmental satellites - including those that monitor global warming - are in jeopardy “as military and human spaceflight programs get larger shares of […]
Hello everyone and welcome. I’m Deborah Byrd, and I’ve been writing about science for radio, print and digital media for 30 years. Maybe you’ve heard me on the radio. In this blog on the Earth & Sky website, I’ll be writing about the subjects nearest and dearest to my heart, including the […]