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The vaccination "debate" continues/exists. I checked, it is February 2015. This is the 21st century [by most calendars] Another outstanding contribution to the public-health policy debate [sadly] by the Guardian US interactive team of Rich Harris, Nadja Popovich and Kenton Powell Reason and the public good appear less a component of modern society than I was aware. In response to those that wish to open…
Perspective In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it’s unfortunately very slow. This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the surface of the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system,…
Perhaps my first genuine childhood memory of a global, historical event. Links: NASA - Apollo 11 Eagle Landing First Steps on the moon First Steps http://youtu.be/RMINSD7MmT4
Science at its best. Stanford Professor Andrei Linde [known as the father of inflation] is given the news that his life's-work appears to be confirmed by the BICEP2 experiment based at the south-pole and his first reaction is.. "if it is true......" "do I believe just because it is beautiful?" http://youtu.be/ZlfIVEy_YOA Links Professor Andrei Linde Stanford News BICEP2 - Harvard…
In July of this year, four of Australia's senior meteorologists, David Jones [Head of Climate Monitoring and Prediction Services] , Blair Trewin [Climatologist, National Climate Centre ], Karl Braganza [Manager, Climate Monitoring Section] and Rob Smalley [Climatologist] co-authored an article for "The Conversation" highlighting 2013 as potentially one of the "hottest" on record. Warming and its associated effects is clearly the single most significant public…
The greatest policy challenge of our (or anyone's) lifetime. Australia recently experienced its hottest day since records began a century ago. The national temperature is the average of hundreds of daily readings across the country and it hit 40.3 degrees. Australia's first six days of 2013 were all among the hottest 20 days on record in terms of average maximums…