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17th Place

Posted by jac on 10 April 2012, 5:26 pm

If Exxon Mobil truly cared about science education, they should rethink their support for a political party that thinks it’s OK for students, in a science class, to learn about how Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church…

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Electric Rockets

Posted by jac on 21 February 2012, 5:18 pm

Charged Up: Electric Rockets Are Set to Transform Space Flight I remember reading in Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! that J. Robert Oppenheimer had people spread false rumors that an electric rocket was being built at Los Alamos…

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Science!

Posted by jac on 1 November 2011, 4:59 pm

The Republican strategist in this video tell us everything we need to know about the modern GOP…

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Terms that have different meanings for scientists and the public

Posted by jac on 25 October 2011, 6:52 am

Terms that have different meanings for scientists and the public

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Northeast Passage

Posted by jac on 18 October 2011, 6:53 pm

Northeast Passage

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Physics FAILs

Posted by jac on 13 October 2011, 6:13 am

E^2 = mc

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Pendulum Waves

Posted by jac on 15 September 2011, 6:15 am

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Pendulum Waves

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Northwest Passage

Posted by jac on 1 September 2011, 5:04 pm

Northwest Passage

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Science

Posted by jac on 16 August 2011, 6:59 pm

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory – Albert Einstein
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter – Richard P. Feynman
The Road to Reality : A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe_ – Roger Penrose
The Nature of Space and Time – Stephen Hawking & Roger Penrose
The Grand Design – Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics – Leonard Susskind
The Fabric of the Cosmos : Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality – Brian Greene
The Elegant Universe : Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory – Brian Greene
Why Does E=mc2?: (And Why Should We Care?) – Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw
The Origin of the Universe – John D. Barrow
The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About the Ultimate Fate of the Universe – Paul Davies
The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings – Martin Gardner
Climbing Mount Improbable – Richard Dawkins
The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution – Richard Dawkins
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution – Richard Dawkins
The Origin of Humankind – Richard Leakey
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors – Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
Great Essays in Science – Martin Gardner (Editor)

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Fox “News” Science FAIL

Posted by jac on 16 August 2011, 6:51 am

Fox News Science FAIL

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