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Unreal Science: Lurching From Crisis To Crisis

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I'm pushing fifty, and for most of my life, the scientific/activist community has been sounding the gong of doom about what terrible ecological disaster is going to end life as we know it if we don't change our ways.  It's the Book of Revelations, only with peer-reviewed footnotes, and they always speak with such emphatic desperation that they get large portions of the public to believe that the end is nigh.

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Climate Change Is Climate Based

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I was watching a documentary on the Sahara region of Africa the other day, and there was one sentence that caught my attention--that due to changes in the Earth's orbit, the rains were driven to the south, creating the Sahara Desert within a matter of decades.  

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Seeing What We Can't Even See: The Pluto Fly-By

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I don't care if you think it's not a "real" planet, distant little Pluto is finally getting its day in the sun as New Horizons sends back data which exceeds the hopes of NASA.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/new-pluto-images-reveal-frozen-...

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Real Science: Giving "Wood Chips" A New Meaning

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Scientists are working on developing a wood-based product to serve as a substrate for computer chips.  It's renewable, stable, and biodegradable.


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/computer-chips-can-now-be-made-from-wood/ar-BBkjypg?ocid=mailsignout


I'm really waiting for them to make 'em out of corn...

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Real Science: Droning On And On

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It seems like everybody loves drones.  Looooves 'em.  Well, except maybe some guys in Afghanistan or something.  But drones are becoming the new hot toy--my mother-in-law even offered to buy us a drone!--and people are using them for aerial photography, checking on livestock, harassing the neighbors, and companies are trying to figure out how to use them to make deliveries (just one more job category that would be eliminated--delivery driver!)


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Real Science: Happy Birthday, Hubble!

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The Hubble space telescope turns 25 this week, and TIME magazine celebrates the world's most famous observatory with a sensitive article and slide show of fifty iconic images taken by the Hubble over the course of its career.


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/see-the-50-best-images-taken-by-hubble/ar-AAbv0QW?ocid=mailsignout


 

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Rocket Science Is Hard

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On Tuesday, April 14, Space-X successfully launched a Dragon resupply capsule to the International Space Station.  However, their second attempt to land the booster on an autonomous drone ship also failed when the rocket toppled over shortly after touching down.


http://www.space.com/29091-spacex-reusable-rocket-dragon-launch.html


Well, at least the astronauts will have espresso and ice cream, now.

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