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Take My Cookies, Give Me My Google Search

Google has announced that effec­tive 1 March 2012 it will con­sol­i­date all 60 of its pri­vacy poli­cies into one and will share infor­ma­tion across all of its ser­vices. This has many of the pri­vacy para­noid in a tizzy. Among the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Hurricanes and Weather Forecasting

Irene has come and gone. The mas­sive storm fol­lowed the pre­dicted path very closely. How­ever, as is so often true, the storm did not have the wind strength that was pre­dicted. We should all be extremely impressed by how well … Con­tinue read­ing

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Can the Question Be Asked?

Years from now we will begin under­stand all of the dam­age that has occurred because of the fail­ures at Japan’s Fukushima Dai­ichi nuclear power facil­ity. The fail­ures ini­ti­ated because of the dam­age induced by the extremely major Tōhoku earth­quake event … Con­tinue read­ing

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Not Sir Winston’s Brainless Liberal

Con­ser­v­a­tive loud-mouth wingnuts say it over and over so it must be true, right? Sir Win­ston Churchill said “If you’re not a lib­eral when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a con­ser­v­a­tive by the time you’re 35, … Con­tinue read­ing

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Maybe You Would Be Better Off If It Were a Science Project

Every time I hear the phrase I cringe. I must remind myself that the per­son speak­ing it is sim­ply clue­less. But not only is it deroga­tory, it is just plain wrong. Unfor­tu­nately, many man­agers and many engi­neers in indus­try have … Con­tinue read­ing

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Nobel Prizes Are Not Sports Championships

In the midst of the dis­cus­sion of the loom­ing cri­sis over cuts to UK sci­ence bud­gets, there has been much pride in the fact that the work of three of the recip­i­ents of this year’s Nobel prizes in sci­ence was … Con­tinue read­ing

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UK Science: Does It Have a Future? Continued

I first wrote about the impend­ing dra­con­ian cuts to the UK sci­ence bud­gets back in July. Since that time, the sit­u­a­tion has not improved very much. Many sci­en­tists, and oth­ers, have banded together to fight the sit­u­a­tion through the Cam­paign … Con­tinue read­ing

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We Know So Little — Yet Won’t Fund Science

After the Deep­wa­ter Hori­zon plat­form dis­as­ter, approx­i­mately 275 mil­lion gal­lons of oil were released into the Gulf waters. Only 25% of the oil has been recov­ered, destroyed, or is known to have washed ashore. There is quite a con­tro­versy brew­ing … Con­tinue read­ing

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