According to Mexican press accounts, the deadly swine-flu outbreak now spreading into the U.S. is linked to large-scale hog operations in Mexico run by industrial-meat giant Smithfield Foods.
the re-launched website for the European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS). Founded in 1957, the ESRS is the leading European association for researchers, policy makers and scientists interested in the study of rural issues
"People seem to be missing the real issue in the CRU emails. Gavin over at realclimate keeps distracting people by saying the issue is the scientists being nasty to each other, and what Trenberth said, and the Nature “trick”, and the like. Those are side
SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Wissenschaft. "Die uralte Grundfrage - Warum ist die Welt so, wie sie ist? - erhält im Multiversum eine ganz einfache Antwort: Unsere Welt ist nur eine von unzählig vielen anderen Welten, die zum Teil ganz anders beschaffen
swine Flu Analysis of William F Engdahl. "The man with the nickname “Dr Flu”, Professor Albert Osterhaus, of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam Holland has been named by Dutch media researchers as the person at the center of the worldwide Swine Flu H1N1
Artikel av Lars Nystedt (11.12.2009). Motto: "Den fantastiska kraften i modernt räknande kommer från tre uppfinningar: de arabiska siffrorna, decimalbråken och logaritmerna." (Florian Cajori) -- " År 1614 utkom i Skottland en bok som skulle revolutionera
Paths To Knowledge (dot NET): "The 16 January 2010 issue of New Scientist is really interesting as New Scientist admit that they published “non peer reviewed speculations” as if it was science (rather than soothsaying) and that those speculations were tre
Useat kansainvälisen ilmastopaneelin IPCC:n esittämät todisteet ilmastonmuutoksen vaikutuksista ekosysteemiin ovat joko virheellisiä, subjektiivisia tai olemattomaan aineistoon perustuvia. Yhteinen piirre monissa huomioiduissa tutkimuksissa on lämpötilati
Verkkari - Helsingin yliopiston kirjaston verkkolehti. Ilmatieteen laitoksen kirjasto suljettiin 1.5.2009. Kirjaston aineistot siirretään Kumpulan tiedekirjastoon ja Varastokirjastoon. "Ilmatieteen laitoksen kirjasto ja Merentutkimuslaitoksen kirjasto toi
"HAARP is investigating an atmospheric layer of charged particles known as the “ionosphere.” These charged particles impact long-range communications and space operations. HAARP’s goal is to understand this impact and help improve long-range communication
Data collections include sociological surveys, election studies, longitudinal studies, opinion polls, and census data. Among the materials are international and European data such as the European Social Survey, the Eurobarometers, and the International So
Milieu intérieur is the key process with which Bernard is associated. He wrote, "La fixité du milieu intérieur est la condition d'une vie libre et indépendante" [...] This is still the underlying principle of homeostasis today. [...] curare [...] Berna
av Per Herngren, 2008. Kritik av den metodologiska nationalismen. "Metodologisk nationalism döljer brott". Annan version av artikeln här: http://www.goteborgsfria.nu/artikel/20592
Pandora's Box? "This is the quintessential Pandora's box moment - like the splitting of the atom or the cloning of Dolly the sheep. We will all have to deal with the fall-out from this alarming experiment," comments Jim Thomas of the ETC Group. "Synthetic
In the early part of the twentieth century the great social and political theorist Max Weber wrote feelingly of the disenchantment of the world brought about by the triumph of scientific rationalism and skepticism. There was, he contended, no room any lon
Philippe Marlière, directeur dIsthmus (Genopole) envoie ici la réplique à larticle dHervé Le Crosnier, paru vendredi 21 mai 2010. Avec ce grand écart, le débat sur la biologie synthétique, ouvert par VivAgora par son cycle 2009 sur lingénierie du vivant 2
Colloque du 28 mai 2010. Rationalité, vérité et démocratie : Bertrand Russel, Georges Orwell, Noam Chomsky - Philosophie du langage et de la connaissance - Jacques Bouveresse - College de France
Prejudice is making a judgment before you have looked at the facts. Postjudice is making a judgment afterwards. Prejudice is terrible, in the sense that you commit injustices and you make serious mistakes. Postjudice is not terrible. You cant be perfect o
On the importance (in research) of being able to keep contradictory things in mind. - Also see the Youtube clip from a BBC tv-program " The Problem of Consciousness" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFbrnFzUc0U
Link to video w Roger Penrose's lecture, June 2009. "How do physicists describe infinity? Does quantum mechanics make sense? What, if anything, does string theory have to do with the natural world?" According to Penrose: nothing. (Cf. NIST's models of WT
This post argues that what we should do about climate change is not a scientific-technical question but is essentially an ethical question and the failure to frame it as such has been responsible, at least in part, for a thirty-year delay in taking action
You see the fantastic thing is that in 1856, before the publication of the Origin of Species, Wallace in Ternate, Indonesia, had a psychedelic spell following his malaria in which he invented the principle of natural selection. He wrote to Darwin and he s
En film om Josef Rotblat, Pugwashrörelsens grundare. "The Strangest Dream tells the story of Joseph Rotblat, the only nuclear scientist to leave the Manhattan Project, the U.S. government’s secret program to build the first atomic bomb, on moral grounds."
Parthasarathy H, Hill E, MacCallum C (2007) Global Ocean Sampling Collection. PLoS Biol 5(3): e83. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050083 Published: March 13, 2007. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
Tuomas Ylä-Anttila, doct dissertation "Politiikan paluu. Globalisaatioiliike ja julkisuus" Vastapaino 2010. The study proves many common assumptions about the Global Justice Movement wrong. Rather than being a marginal actor, the movement is the initiato