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Starship and Space Science
By Sarah Scoles, for SCIENCE “NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission was brutish and short. It began on 9 October 2009, when the hull of a spent Centaur rocket stage smashed into Cabeus crater, near the south pole of the Moon, with the force of about 2 tons of TNT. And it ended […]
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First Light – Origin Tales of a Website
By Dr Beck, circa FEB2016 “I Really Appreciate Science. Technology and Cute Experiments are Cool, too!” – this would be the name of the website I want to start. The first installment would be: The nature of evolution can be regarded as cooperative dissipation of energy. Every stage of evolution, including the steps that gave […]
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MapX’ much maligned SRES A1B prediction for 2100 and Reality today.
By Dr Beck Two images “The Scarred Landscape of the Climate Crisis” James Cheshire, University College London “I’ve been obsessively checking satellite imagery to witness the UK turn from green to yellow, thanks to the period extreme heat and lack of rain Europe has been enduring. The parched landscape is unlike anything I’ve seen before […]
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“Policy Insights from the Inflation Reduction Act”
MICHAEL MANN, SHELLEY WELTON, MARK ALAN HUGHES | AUGUST 10, 2022 CLIMATE, MARKETS & REGULATION, ACCESS & EQUITY Penn faculty affiliated with the Kleinman Center give their thoughts on The Inflation Reduction Act’s potential impact on energy policy. On Sunday, the Senate passed a budget reconciliation bill on a party-line vote that included a number of landmark actions on […]
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“Climate change is making over 200 diseases worse and our immune systems weaker, study finds”
More than 58 per cent of human diseases have gotten worse because of climate change, according to a new study. The groundbreaking research, published in Nature Climate Change on Monday, was conducted by researchers at Mamoa’s University of Hawaii, who carried out a systematic search for real-life examples of the impact of ten climatic hazards […]
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“Why COVID-19 is more deadly in people with obesity—even if they’re young”
“The stickiest blood I’ve ever seen” and other weight-related factors worsen the coronavirus disease” 8 SEP 2020BYMEREDITH WADMAN for SCIENCE MAGAZINE “Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation. “When the first wave of coronavirus hit the state of Vermont in the spring, patients from all corners of the state […]
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The Rhodium Group analysis of the Senate IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) Climate Bill
By Dr Beck I urge everyone to read the Rhodium Group analysis of the Senate Climate IRA Bill. Like all legislation on Climate coming through the US Congress, it is a compromise bill. Not a Green Party solution. But a solution that avoids war, none the less. I present here a condensed form for lunchtime […]
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The Essential Carl Sagan
By Dr Beck When Carl Sagan spoke on Global Warming, the first President Bush was organizing the mid-term elections of his party. I was finishing up my post-doc at Penn with Prof Dr Marsha I Lester. It was 1990, 34 years after the Republican scientist (Dr David Keeling) from Scripps Institute in San Diego first […]
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“Low levels of hybridization between domestic and wild Mallards wintering in the lower Mississippi Flyway”
J Brian Davis, Diana C Outlaw, Kevin M Ringelman, Richard M Kaminski, Philip Lavretsky INTRO TO THE ARTICLE by Dr Beck Prof Phil Laversky is one of a small breed of academicians, who fell in love with hunting duck with his immigrant father in LA,; took that love into science, and became an esteemed Ducks […]
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“Opinion: What my generation is facing — A high schooler’s take on the climate crisis”
From The Deseret News We are seeing the hottest summer temperatures on record. We are experiencing years on years of drought. Yet we aren’t surprised anymore. That needs to change By Cash Mendenhall On July 17, Salt Lake City met the record for the highest summer temperature in recorded history, and by the time you […]
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