Tag Archives: Science

Starts With A Bang – Can You Get Something For Nothing?

Physics does actu­ally let you get some­thing from noth­ing, another rea­son why you don’t learn your sci­ence from non-scientists.

February 3, 2011 – 5:50 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Science | Tagged , | Comments Off

Cosmic Variance – Scientists Aren’t Always Complete Idiots

Some­thing that I notice that non-scientists seem to make as an assump­tion about sci­en­tists is that it’s this sta­tic idea, ideas are rarely chal­lenged and the big shots are always right and never assumed to be wrong.

January 24, 2011 – 8:24 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Science | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Cocktail Party Physics – i think that i shall never see / a carbon offset as lovely as a tree

I loved every lit­tle in nook and cranny she explored from just a cou­ple of sim­ple mar­ket­ing statements.

January 10, 2011 – 11:45 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Science | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Bad Astronomy – At the bottom of Earth’s orbit

Just a lit­tle bit of sci­ence for tonight.

January 3, 2011 – 8:44 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Science | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Darryl Cunningham Investigates: Climate Change

An entire comic devoted to show­ing what cli­mate change is, why local events don’t prove or dis­prove it, why it is hap­pen­ing and why it is caused by humans, event tack­ling Cli­mate­gate along the way.

January 1, 2011 – 8:18 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts, Science | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Eric Cantor – Citizen Review

Though leave it to a politi­cian to leave sci­en­tific deci­sions to aver­age cit­i­zens with no train­ing in science.

December 11, 2010 – 5:14 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts, Security | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Journal of Transportation Security – An evaluation of airport x-ray backscatter units based on image characteristics

Yet another rea­son for why the backscat­ter machines need to be inde­pen­dently tested.

December 11, 2010 – 4:07 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts, Science, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off