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• Amateur hour continued

  It seems that we have the amateurs making more comedy as they violate a law they passed themselves:

  It’s not every day that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that the Executive Office of the President violated federal law, but that’s the conclusion the GAO released in a report this month, after reviewing bilateral talks with the Chinese government hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).

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• The Whole Ozone

  Hmmm:

  President Barack Obama, citing the struggling economy, asked the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday to withdraw an air-quality rule that Republicans and business groups said would cost millions of jobs.

  The surprise move—coming on the same day as a dismal unemployment report—reflected the energy industry’s importance as a rare bright spot in adding U.S. jobs. The tighter standards for smog-forming ozone could have forced states and cities to limit some oil-and-gas projects.

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• We really don’t know that much yet..

  In my advanced Chemistry classes I was thought that bases are substances that can donate electron pairs. Acids on the other hand, are substances that can accept them. Acids and bases where polar opposites. That was the law. Well, not anymore. I say that because of revelations like this one:

  RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Chemists at the University of California, Riverside have accomplished in the lab what until now was considered impossible: transform a family

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• Won’t Someone Think of the Childrens

  The indispensable John Tierney has a great article up at the NYT asking an important question — are we making playgrounds too safe? Across the nation, swings, slides, merry-go-rounds and even teeter-totters are vanishing. But…

  “Children need to encounter risks and overcome fears on the playground,” said Ellen Sandseter, a professor of psychology at Queen Maud University in Norway. “I think monkey bars and tall slides are great. As playgrounds become more and more boring,

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• Ad Astra

  This is going to be a bit of a long rambling post. But it’s on a subject close to me personally and professionally.

  As most of you know, I’m a professional star-gazer and a lifelong fan of space exploration. And right now, the state of space is in flux.

  

  On Friday, the shuttle Atlantis blasted off for the 135th and final shuttle mission. The Space Shuttle has had a long and somewhat checkered history. On … Read more

• Your Stimulus Update

  We already know that much of the so-called stimulus was not stimulus at all. A lot went to simply bolstering falling state revenues to put off their declines. One might argue that investments in research and technology have an economic payoff. But even the most ardent Keynsians has trouble arguing that pure transfer payments are an economic stimulus, especially when they’re mainly shoring up unemployment benefits.

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• The Moral Question

  Gallup has an interesting poll up asking people about moral issues. They’ve been asked if they consider certain things — fur coats, the death penalty, abortion — to be morally wrong or morally acceptable.

  I found the idea fascinating and went down the list of issues. There are some drawbacks to this sort of poll, of course. The principle issue is that moral dilemmas are not always so black-and-white. By this, I don’t mean moral … Read more

• How’d He Do That?

  Hand/eye coordination, yeah, it’s a rather big deal if you are an athlete, and if you actually get paid for manipulating a round ball, then you must really be good at it.

  This video is making the rounds on the internet:

  Nice catch , right? And talk about macho, no ,”Dang, that really hurt”, or even a wince. Wait, you mean that wasn’t real? a Gillette commercial? filthy capitalism. OK, there were some obvious  tells, … Read more