Posted in Opinion on Feb 14th, 2006
[Education, Higher Education, incompetence, No Child Left Behind, Reform]A cold shudder ran down my spine this morning listening to a Morning Edition report about the Bush Administration’s planning on how to improve higher education in this country. Here’s what I wish the report had said:
Sensitive to the importance of higher education in this country, […]
Posted in In The News on Feb 13th, 2006
[Alt.Space, Humans vs. Robots, NASA, Space, Space Exploration, Terrestrial Planet Finder]It’s another big Monday for space discussion!
To Get Your Juices Flowing:
Posted in Informative Articles, Opinion on Feb 12th, 2006
[Budget Cuts, NASA, Planetary Science, Science, Space Exploration, Terrestrial Planet Finder, TPF]Few scientific challenges are more important than determining if life on Earth is alone in the universe. Over the last ten years we have found almost two-hundred extrasolar planets, but none that seem likely to harbor life as we know it. Such […]
Posted in Research Synopses on Feb 11th, 2006
[Eric Drexler, Nanotechnology, Nanotubes, Richard Smalley, Toxicity]You all probably know the feeling of reading a book that completely alters your outlook of the world, and of our future. When I read K. Eric Drexler’s Engines of Creation, I set down the book convinced that the future would be an amazing place powered by molecular […]
Posted in In The News on Feb 10th, 2006
[Blogging, Blogs, Podcasts, Popular Science, Science, Space]One of the reasons I started blogging here at Anthonares.net was what I perceived as a lack of high profile science bloggers this time last year. Since then, the world of science blogging has changed dramatically, and I’m excited to be even a very small part of it. […]
Posted in In The News on Feb 9th, 2006
[Astrobiology, Bethell, Cancer, Centenial Challenge, Mars, Meteorite, NASA]I’ve had little time to post today because I’ve spent it all reading a spate of great science news.
First up: For the first time ever, total cancer deaths declined last year. See this report from the American Cancer Society that breaks down mortality by sex and cancer […]
Posted in Opinion on Feb 8th, 2006
[Caricatures, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Islam, Mohammed, Racism]There seems to be a fundamental difference between the way that Europeans (including Russia, sorry to geographically offend any Russians), and Americans have reacted to the controversy over the Mohammed caricatures. Officially, European countries are vocally for the cartoons while our newspapers and government officials have spoken […]
Posted in In The News on Feb 8th, 2006
[incompetence, NASA, Politics, Space]I woke up to the good news this morning, compliments of the Bad Astronomer. The New York Times has the story as well. I had called for Deutsch’s resignation in my Monday Space Policy Roudup. However, as much as I’d like to think he read my blog and felt […]
Posted in Announcements on Feb 7th, 2006
[No Tags]After stupidly losing my old Blogger template modifications, I decided to switch over to using Word Press blogging software. I wish I had done so months ago. The switch was completely painless, and it imported all of my old entries and comments. The software was free, and the changes that it […]
Posted in Informative Articles on Feb 7th, 2006
[FMARS, Mars, Mars Society, Space Exploration]This is the complete log (both personal and official) of my time as crewmember of the Mars Society’s FMARS-10 crew. This is a massive post! I’ve included a table of contents to help navigate all of the material here. So, feel free to browse the contents, there’s a […]
