Otherweb Archive - Opinion - Science
- When dogs recall toys and horses plan ahead, are animals so different from us? | Martha Gill
- Writer: Without the placenta, we wouldn’t be who we are as a species
- Biden's 'Inflation Reduction Act' was never about inflation. Guess they woke him up too early from his nap
- Kamala Abandons Another Liberal Position
- Richard Dawkins: 'Race is a spectrum. Sex is pretty damn binary'
- Why was Grenfell covered in cladding? Climate targets
- The Shroud of Turin: Scoperta Straordinaria! - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
- Dam shame: Green activists target clean hydropower to ‘save the fish’
- California’s new climate change curriculum mandates are counterproductive, former state lawmaker says
- Over Half a Billion Taxpayer Dollars to Build EV Chargers in Mostly Underserved Communities - Judicial Watch
- No one can do anything about the rhythm of the sea in our sleep
- Afraid of rising global temperatures? Ditch your air conditioner, suggests New York Times essay.
- Biden-Harris administration spent more on climate policies than any previous U.S. administration
- "It's sexy and dramatic, it sells," says Todd Myers. "It's more about feeling good than environmental results"
- What was once the biggest issue is now a non-issue, says John Avlon
- In the age of social media, our rulers don’t like anything that goes against the Narrative
- GIJN Guide to Investigating Extreme Heat
- There’s no need to be worried about forever chemicals in Sydney tap water | Stuart Khan
- The nature of a starfish: ‘a disembodied head walking about on its lips’ | Helen Sullivan
- It’s time to give up on ‘normal’ weather: Australia’s climate is entering a different phase | David Bowman for the Conversation
- US squandering billions on unproven climate solutions, critics say
- Imagine life in the near future. A man lives in a tiny apartment. He rents his bedroom, his furnishings, and his meager entertainments
- First-ever commercial space walk delayed after overcautious FAA grounds SpaceX rocket
- See if you can crack the code to this week’s Slate News Quiz
- Carbon offsets have always been just another global warming scam
- An Open Source Guide to Marine Oil Spill Detection
- When Wildfires Strike, Canada Blames Racism Instead Of Taking Action
- Winter’s unseasonal warmth and clear skies are glorious – but a forbidding sign of danger to come | Paul Daley
- California Fights Fire With Fire
- After months of dithering, NASA finally says it has a plan to bring back stranded astronauts next year
- Which climate policies work best? This new study offers clues.
- Dear ministers, I’m a climate crisis campaigner: nationalise me right now | George Monbiot
- SpaceX’s risky mission will go farther into space than we’ve been in 50 years
- ARIA is a research and intelligence-gathering organisation that produces analytic and investigative work into the world’s biggest environmental problems
- Investigative Researcher – Fossil Fuel Influence Project
- Plastics are better for the climate than aluminum and glass, actually
- Trump vows to create new reserve for U.S. Space Force if elected president
- When I was a girl, sex education was simpler. Now, it’s all about the Genderbread Person
- When Keynes Killed Laissez-Faire – Samuel Gregg
- Quantum computing: beyond the hype
- What Kamala Harris Could Bring to the Justice Department
- Spencer Klavan rejects the idea that science and religion are at odds
- Harris is strategically silent on climate, but zealots know which side she’s on
- Pacific nations aren’t asking for favours. They just want Australia to meet the moment on climate justice | Tim Flannery
- Economists like competition but not when it comes to their own field of research | Torsten Bell
- Area governments lauded for trying to help residents affected by severe storms on Aug. 6 | Editorial
- Solar and wind aren’t going to cut it, but nuclear is
- Climate madness is creating a nation of building code scofflaws
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ripped the U.S. health care system as a sick care system as he ended his own White House campaign
- How to be an expert tosser: know when to recycle and when to chuck it out
- Roundheads and Cavaliers - Washington Examiner
- Miss Pope, my science teacher, would have approved of music and ice lollies in class. Exams aren’t the only way to learn | Michael Rosen
- Is there nothing the BBC won’t blame on climate change?
- Kamala Harris barely mentioned climate at the DNC. Does it matter?
- The Sunrise Movement sees climate as the key to voters' trust
- Clean forestry as a social yardstick
- Chasing Shadows: Geolocate Images with Bellingcat's Shadow Finder Tool - bellingcat
- I argue that language itself is one such seductively clear system. In fact, it is a collection of off-switches for the mind
- The world’s largest solar farm – to be built across 47 square miles in Australia’s outback – gets green light
- Green or growth? Labour must pick a side
- Biden brags about building 500,000 electric car charging stations, but only SEVEN have been built
- Environmental Law Institute’s Climate Judiciary Project is corrupting state judges, says Jason Isaac
- New US support for global production limits has the plastics industry in a tizzy
- Trump's Environmental Triumph: How His Policies Delivered Clean Air, Water, and Economic Growth
- Water management in the NT is in crisis – a fundamental overhaul is needed | Sue Jackson
- D.C. Councilmember Trayon White Sr. charged with accepting bribes in exchange for pressuring government employees to give contracts worth millions of dollars
- A clam: made of light and all the while afraid of the dark | Helen Sullivan
- Climate scientists flummoxed by unexpected rise in global temperatures
- Analysis: Supply-side economics can yield economic growth, but it gives politicians an excuse not to cut spending
- Kamala made a fool of herself? Time for more climate hysteria!
- Faking Reality is A Bad Idea
- The possibility of life on other planets is more likely than we know
- Keep talking JD! Vance’s creepy views on ‘females’ are repelling women voters
- Mark Hendrickson: Green lawfare is the same strategy used to persecute Donald Trump
- Decrepit Pipes Put Jackson, Mississippi, on the Edge of Catastrophe. State Regulators Didn’t Act.
- This week’s Slate News Quiz challenges you to test your knowledge of the week’s news events
- When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means.
- As Millions of Acres Burn, Firefighters Say the U.S. Forest Service Has Left Them With Critical Shortages
- Scaling the Heights of Physics: James D. Bjorken 1934–2024
- This week, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons said it doesn’t endorse so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors
- Boeing Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams may have to stay at the International Space Station until February
- Do we still need salt?
- Even flying ants get more action than I do
- When you have junk science, you end up with mad scientists
- After Nike Leaders Promised Climate Action, Their Corporate Jets Kept Flying — and Polluting
- As governor, Tim Walz has been an aggressive leader on climate action
- This is part of Boobs Week. Here’s what you need to know
- Using Data Sources to Track Harmful Climate Crisis-Fueled Algal Blooms
- I’m at a point in my life where I can no longer reconcile my values and professional role. How do they demand it?
- Washington State Solar Project Paused Amid Concern About Native Cultural Sites
- Biden to Poland: Show some restraint
- We are wasting $2 trillion a year chasing ‘green’ fantasies
- Vibes matter: Trump can hardly restrain his jealousy over the Harris campaign's joy
- I Left California Because of Wildfires. Now, My Town Is Dealing With a Whole Other Kind of Disaster.
- This week’s news quiz challenges you to test your knowledge of the week’s news events
- Stranded astronaut fiasco is a black eye for NASA and Boeing
- NASA astronauts are 'sitting in a tin can, far above the world, with little hope of landing back on Earth anytime soon'
- The definitive account of the Challenger disaster
- Data defines a new era for fundraising
- Florida is at the forefront of climate disaster, but the state has pursued a deregulatory approach to resuscitate its death-spiraling property insurance market