Ocean iron and CO2 interaction studied from PhysOrg.com
A French study suggested that iron supply changes from deep water to the ocean’s surface might have a greater effect on atmospheric CO2 than thought.
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Volcanic eruptions, ancient global warming linked from PhysOrg.com
A team of scientists announced today confirmation of a link between massive volcanic eruptions […]

Follow-up on this story about clones wolves.
South Korea’s top university said Friday its researchers’ claims to have created the world’s first cloned wolves are genuine, even though their paperwork was poor.
Seoul National University (SNU), still smarting from an earlier cloning scandal, had set up an inquiry after mistakes in an academic paper […]

This is very unfair, and the Ghost of Scotty must be pissed…
Two days ago, Scotty’s Ashes, as well as ashes of Astronaut Gordon Cooper were rocketed into space from Spaceport America in New Mexico, which was an attempt to meet the wishes of these space travelers. The thing is, the rocket was “suborbital” which […]

A while ago I wrote a very positive review of Ardea Skybreak’s “The Science of Evolution/The Myth of Creationism.”
I’ve recently learned that this must-read book has been named as one of three Finalists for the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Awards in the Science/Environment category. The awards are given by PMA, the Independent Publishers […]

Everyone says everyone loves “mythbusters” but I don’t. I’ve never seen them so I can’t love them.
But from the little I have seen, I think they are in the same ilk as Snopes (urban legend page) in that yes, they do “bust” myths but their standards do not alway truly falsify the hypothesis, […]

…. to act on the biggest environmental problem of our time.
“The way it happened was the equivalent to flipping the bird, frankly, to the rest of the world … on an issue about which they felt so deeply.” That is how former New Jersey governor and the former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Christine […]

Click here to make fun of the Intelligent Designois.
Hat tip to Kristine. and Red State Rabble.

A new hereditary breast cancer gene has been discovered by scientists at the Lundberg Laboratory for Cancer Research and the Plastic Surgery Clinic at the Sahlgrenska Academy in Sweden. The researchers found that women with a certain hereditary deformity syndrome run a nearly twenty times higher risk of contracting breast cancer than expected.
Several research teams […]

I recently received an email from Chris Mooney, with a link pointing to this post on his site.