By LESLIE KAUFMAN23 February 2012 Focus on the contents of the internal documents leaked last week from the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based nonprofit known for attacking climate science, has been largely lost in the wake of the revelation of the... [more]

by Anonymous The situation is Chardon is all too familiar: a bullied outcast with a troubled home life snaps. If TJ Lane had broken in the usual manner, he might have committed suicide. But TJ snapped differently and took a gun to his tormenters. In an... [more]

“From a dramatic standpoint, there is no connection between the voodoo zombie and the modern zombies. From a factual anthropological, religious, or historic standpoint, there is no connection between the voodoo zombie and the modern zombie.” So wri... [more]

In addition to providing solar power to the University of Texas at Austin campus, this Webber Energy Group solar project installation will transmit real-time status and performance information for use by students and researchers. Time lapse footage of... [more]

So says La Curry. She is only two years behind the times. Or maybe a year and a half. To be fair, that is only the headline. But the rest of the content is what you'd expect from a shark-jumper. I cant really be bothered to analyse it, unless anyone ou... [more]

Michael Mann will be answering questions live on the Guardian @ 4 PM GMTExcerpts-------------------------------28 February 2012 4:26PM M... [more]

Berlin/Bonn, 27 February 2012 (DHL) – With its release of the study of the future, Delivering Tomorrow: Logistics 2050, Deutsche Post DHL is taking a far-reaching look into the future of trade, business and society. The study examines five different... [more]

  By arevamirpal::laprimavera 27 February 2012 The documentary includes footage from early days of the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster that started on 11 March 2011 that I've never seen before - weather camera video when the tsunami hit the ... [more]

A few articles about myth busting and the Debunking Handbook have been posted over the last 24 hours. This morning, ABC Environment published my article Mythbusting with fewer explosions. They gave the article the tag-line "Busting myths is less like a... [more]

I greatly enjoy dissecting the news and tearing it apart. Unfortunately, there is such a vast wealth of poorly presented news that it’s often like shooting fish in a barrel. I also enjoy shredding the statements of public and private officials. I... [more]

Although we at Skeptical Science (SkS) do not condone the lamentable means through which Peter Gleick obtained the DenialGate documents from the Heartland Institute, the information is nevertheless out there.  As we immediately noted, these docume... [more]

A larger victory for the rebel forces! One day after Elsevier dropped its support for the Research Works Act, the people pushing this ugly bill—who coincidentally get regular contributions of cash from Elsevier—have decided to let it die! At least for now. Here’s the joint statement from Representatives Darrell Issa and Carolyn B. Maloney, who [...] [more]

Hurricane Irene was 6 months ago, but its effects linger. From today's high-fiber edition of WaPo: Calvert man is crushed by fallen tree’s root ballBy Carol Morello, Sunday, February 26,7:27 PMA Calvert County man died Saturday afternoon when a root... [more]

From Richard Lichty emeritus at UMN Duluth, by way of Crooked Timber, (comment 2) an explanation of the world according to Thorstein Veblen, the man who created the Theory of the Leisure Class and Conspicuous Consumption, providing much intellectual fr... [more]

Lucy pushed her finger into the tear in Blue Bear’s stomach and pulled the cotton out. It was nasty to make a slit with her Biro, but she needed a place to hide her mums ring. The ring  had a green stone in the centre, her mum said it reminded h... [more]

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Oh, the horror…. I know. This is a gratuitous cheap shot that’s beneath us here at S&R. But pictures don’t lie. Go Sox! [more]

By Jef Feeley and Laurel Brubaker Calkins25 February 2012 BP Plc (BP) officials overseeing the Macondo well that spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico ignored questions about whether safety tests done hours before a fatal blast o... [more]

The EPA has just released a draft of the latest edition of its report, “Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks”, covering years 1990-2010. You can grab the whole (471-page!) report or subsections here. Please notice that this is a draft version, and comments are due (via e-mail addresses on the above page) by March 28. I haven’t . . . → Read More: Doc alert: US greenhouse gas emissions and sinks [more]

The Heartland Institute continues its brazen calls for others to be ethical while refusing to behave ethically itself. [more]

  By Lewis Smith, fish2fork news24 February 2012 Seventeen captains of fishing boats involved in a £47.5million ‘black fish’ scam have been fined £720,000 and told they brought shame on the industry. The skippers had landed mackerel and he... [more]