Posted in Announcements on Nov 30th, 2005
[Month in Review]Welcome to the first Anthonares.net monthly summary! I’m doing this for a few reasons: 1) content on blogs “dies” very quickly. Sure, search engines can find it, but so much gets said and soon forgotten. 2) These pages will show up the first on the monthly archives, giving readers a quick […]
Posted in In The News on Nov 30th, 2005
[Climate Change, Global Warming, Gulf Stream]Nature’s latest issue, due out tomorrow, publishes the results of a study that shows that the Gulf Stream current (the one that keeps Europe warm despite the fact that the UK is as far north as Hudson Bay) has slowed by about 30% since 1957. Actually, the study notes […]
Posted in Book Reviews on Nov 29th, 2005
[Book Review, Climate Change, Environment, Extended Piece, Global Warming, Peer Review, PIG Science, Politics, Science]As mentioned in previous entries here on Anthonares.net, 2005 has been a banner year for climate science. How unfortunate for Tom Bethell that his first chapter entitled “Global Warming” should come to the forefront now. For, as he mentioned, […]
Posted in Research Synopses on Nov 29th, 2005
[Antarctica, Climate Change, Dome C, Global Warming, Ice Core, Peer Review, Research Synopsis]As many of you have undoubtedly seen in the news since last week, research published in the journal Science extends to work of Antarctic ice core gas sampling back from its previous record of 440,000 years to 650,000 years ago. This week, […]
Posted in In The News, Opinion on Nov 28th, 2005
[Space, Space Exploration, Why Space]This week’s selection of articles in The Space Review is predictably excellent. Sam Dinkin, in “The High Road” makes a really important statement about the necessity for cooperation among the ranks of the space advocacy community. He suggests that no one publicly make derogatory or divisive statements because the […]
Posted in Book Reviews on Nov 27th, 2005
[Book Review, Extended Piece, PIG Science, Politics, Science]Browsing the shelves of the science section at Barnes and Noble this weekend, I noticed the book “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science” by Tom Bethell. I picked it up and scanned the cover, it promised to bust a variety of science myths including global warming, evolution, […]
Posted in Book Reviews on Nov 26th, 2005
[Book Review, Futurism, Radical Evolution, Singularity, Transcendance]I just finished reading “Radical Evolution : The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies — and What It Means to Be Human” by Joel Garreau, though I’ve already blogged about portions of it here and here. This entry is a bit of a broad overview […]
Posted in Opinion on Nov 25th, 2005
[Budget, Manned, NASA, Space, Space Exploration]NASA suffers from acute schizophrenia. Its twin objectives–to provide data and services to scientists throughout the country, and to enable manned space exploration–are often in conflict budgetarily and intellectually. Unmanned missions are managed by academia and industry, proposals are solicited and funding is decided similarly to grant funding. […]
Posted in In The News on Nov 24th, 2005
[Budget, Cost Overrun, NASA, Politics, Shuttle]Today’s Washington Post has a major piece on the very large shortfall that NASA is facing in the next few years by trying to both satisfy its commitments to the ISS partners and develop the new Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) by 2012. Jeff Foust, over at Space Politics has […]
Posted in In The News, Opinion on Nov 23rd, 2005
[L5 Society, Mars, Mars Society, Space, Space Advocacy, Space Cadets]Before reading this entry, check out Jeff Bell’s latest opinion piece at SpaceDaily.com. In a somewhat wide-ranging criticism of modern space activism, he singles out the Mars Society, and Robert Zubrin’s ideas, as the most obvious symptoms of a much deeper malaise affecting us Space […]
