Science, Policy, and Ozone

With the ongoing controversy over global climate change, it’s interesting to look back at a big scientific controversy from the 80s and 90s, “CFCs and the ozone layer”:http://www.wunderground.com/education/ozone_skeptics.asp. The CFC industry fought change for 20 years, but it turned out to be a) a worse problem than even the “doomsayers” anticipated and b) less costly [...]

Posted by Chris in Environment on June 29th, 2004 | Comments Off

Fungus: At the Root of It

From the BioOrganics, Inc. newsletter: ————————————————– What Do These Plants Want, Anyhow? ————————————————– It bears repeating. Providing mycorrhizal fungi spores to plants is NOT giving them something “extra.” It is NOT a miracle-plant-food-sort-of-thingy. It is NOT some sort of mystical additive. Simply put, a plant without mycorrhizae on its root system is not equipped to [...]

Posted by Deb in Organics on June 25th, 2004 | 3 Comments »

Because it’s there

This is the _real_ reason why exploring space is important. We may think we know what we’re going to find, but we *don’t*. For example, a “comet in our own solar backyard”:http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/stardust_results_040319.html has “baffled space scientists”:http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/stardust_results_040617.html by refusing to conform to our ideas of how comets should act. Silly comet. _A detailed analysis of the [...]

Posted by Chris in Space on June 18th, 2004 | Comments Off

Reclaiming

Since I seem to be on a holy roller, here’s another little goup y’all might want to check out called Reclaiming. Chris, it’s like the feminist wicca stuff I do, only boys get to come, too. Yay! Starhawk started it and she’s got this great book called The Fifth Sacred Thing. It’s like a thought [...]

Posted by Deb in Religion on June 17th, 2004 | 2 Comments »

See also

This “interesting art project”:http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/17/technology/circuits/17info.html sounds like the kind of thing I used to do with my 1972 World Book encyclopedia. It’s fun to take a random idea and riff on it by following links.

Posted by Chris in Art on June 17th, 2004 | Comments Off

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