Category Archives: Science

How To Write Sensational Headlines 101

Here are the facts: Based on two recent stud­ies, sea lev­els will rise between 27 inches and 6.6 feet by the end of the cen­tury. Which one of the fol­low­ing head­lines do you think is writ­ten by a scream­ing alarmist eco-terrorist and which one is writ­ten by a level headed edi­tor? Sea Level Rise May …

September 5, 2008 – 6:01 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Science | Tagged , | Comments (0)

News Of the Weird

Appar­ently Earth has a but­t­hole.  I found the recount­ing of the sci­en­tific inves­ti­ga­tion that went on after the event to be fascinating.

May 21, 2007 – 12:49 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Science | Comments (1)

Fun with Global Warming

UPDATE: Moved to the top of the page because I didn”t want it pushed down too far before my two read­ers get a chance to see it amongst the flurry of post­ing I seem to be moti­vated to do. Mar­tin Wolf dis­cusses global warm­ing in the Finan­cial Times though it”s behind the sub­scrip­tion wall so I …

July 12, 2006 – 8:32 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in National Issues, Science | Comments Off

Markets in Everything

Appar­ently, in parts of west­ern India, wives are rented by their hus­bands to other men on a month-to-month basis because of short­age of avail­able mar­ri­able women. As always, the law of sup­ply and demand shows up. This sad state of affairs (heh) is brought about by fam­i­lies hav­ing a ten­dency to abort female fetuses since …

June 20, 2006 – 11:53 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Science | Comments Off

Iron Chef and Evolution

As you sit drink­ing your cof­fee this morn­ing, con­sider how Iron Chef is like evo­lu­tion. Pretty inter­est­ing stuff. Hat tip: Winds of Change

March 23, 2006 – 8:09 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Science | Comments (0)