Red lava, sure. Blue flames?
It’s methane gas.
Archive of posts filed under the Science & Medicine category.
Science: what good is it?
Trump is considering privatizing the International Space Station. You know, that’ll probably play well in Bumf*** where the Trump voters can reliably be found, according to the anthropologists at the New York Times and Washington Post. No future astronauts or engineers or people like that live out in rural America, I’m sure. When can we …
Sucks to be you, poor women
The Trump Administration just expanded the range of employers who can claim exemptions from the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that birth control be made available as part of any insurance policy. This latest rewriting of the federal policy, in an interim final rule that takes effect immediately, broadens the entities that may claim religious objections …
A question
How is it that the Republican Party repeatedly says gun control laws won’t work and aren’t needed but continually says more and more restrictive abortion laws are desperately needed? “The shooters will just get guns on the black market,” they say when arguing against restrictions on gun purchasers. But when one points out that women …
Farewell Cassini
Let’s let Paul Kantner play the spacecraft out. this is “Starship” from Blows Against the Empire.
Goodbye, Cassini
Tomorrow at roughly 7:55AM EDT Cassini will commit suicide by jumping into a planet. Okay, maybe that’s a little too human a verb. Put it that it’s being sent down to the surface (?) of a gas planet whose radius is 36, 184 miles, second in size only to Jupiter. It’s traveling at 76,000 miles …
How about that eclipse, huh?
It gave those of us who live in Hawai’i very little, about 10% coverage of the sun by the moon and most of that behind clouds at 6:45 AM. But watching it as it streamed live and on television on the Mainland was an amazing experience. Hey, the next one’s only seven years off and …
Science is fact-checking, which the Know-Nothings don’t like
Trump and Mulvaney, Idiocracy LLC
A budget that puts #AmericaFirst must make safety its no. 1 priority—without safety there can be no prosperity: https://t.co/9lxx1iQo7m — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 16, 2017 I’ll be very pleased to know our borders are secure as I die of starvation because you cut funding for Meals On Wheels. Or maybe I’ll die of …
When dysfunction kills
Here’s the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, speaking today at the National Press Club: “Imagine that you’re standing by and you see someone drowning, and you have the ability to stop them from drowning, but you can’t,” Frieden told a packed room of reporters and potential donors at the National Press Club on …