Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Thursday, August 29, 2013

School district climbs in bed with oil industry

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What a surprise to find, on my way back from lunch, that HISD's new Energy Institute High School is practically just around the corner ...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

You can't make a Mentos geyser without the Mentos

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It was Book Fair night at my daughters' school last night and the guest of honor was a scientist at a local science attraction for kids....
Saturday, April 27, 2013

Now for something completely different...

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What you are about to see (H/T NPR) is three years of the sun's life compressed into three minutes. NASA took two pictures a day of the ...
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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Blurring the line between science and propaganda

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This past weekend my wife and I took our daughters to the Houston Museum of Natural Science. It had been a while since I was last there and ...
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Friday, July 13, 2012

Causation or correlation?

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So here I am heading home from the office the other day listening to All Things Considered  on the radio and there's this story about Ke...
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Saturday, May 12, 2012

A new perspective on our solar system

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This video is just way too cool. Check out how different planets would appear in the night sky if they were as close to the earth as the moo...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Book review: A Universe From Nothing

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Yep. We've all heard it before. "Nothing from nothing is nothing." But, maybe not exactly. In his latest book, A Universe ...
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Sunday, November 6, 2011

It's about time

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Across the pond English scientists are trying to decide whether the world needs to change to a new time standard to compensate for the wobbl...
Friday, September 23, 2011

What goes up, must come down

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You just can't mess with those laws of physics. Sometime tonight or in the early morning hours of tomorrow a satellite is going to fal...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Making learning fun

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Yesterday I found myself taking my oldest to a birthday party for one of her classmates. I know, I know, a birthday party for a seven year-o...
Wednesday, September 8, 2010

A little break from the day-to-day

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While most of us were sleeping, an asteroid passed within 154,000 miles of Earth -- inside the moon's orbit. Another is expected to pas...