Monthly Archives: June 2011

Bubblenomics: Shale Gas Edition

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Alexander Mosiak

It is quite likely that shale gas is being oversold as a revolutionary energy source, based on industry data and internal emails uncovered by muckraking New York Times journalist Ian Urbina. In the e-mails, energy executives, industry lawyers, state geologists … Continue reading →

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Which will go first: the ocean or fossil fuels?

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Kelli Barr

The latest ocean news: scientists are gearing up for the next few decades of continued decline in marine populations, the extinction of shallow-water coral reefs, and major perturbations in current physical and chemical stabilizing systems. The first ever interdisciplinary, international … Continue reading →

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Nozik & Anarchy

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Keith Brown

Why the philosophical father of libertarianism gave up on the movement he inspired. – By Stephen Metcalf – Slate Magazine. Very good overview article of the progression from Nozik’s encouragement of what would become Neo-LIbertarianism to his discouragement. Also does … Continue reading →

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Adventuresome Education… not quite

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Keith Brown

http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/06/19/time_to_kill_liberal_arts I am not quite sure why it is the liberal arts that always get the focus. From the studies I have seen and the people I know, a person with a liberal arts degree is not any less likely … Continue reading →

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NSF issues new merit review criteria

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Robert Frodeman

At http://nsf.gov/nsb/publications/2011/06_mrtf.jsp. We are writing a Science Progress post on it this weekend.

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Utrecht–International Network for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Robert Frodeman

Blogging from Utrecht–day 2 of our meeting, to see if we should form a network of networks in ID and TD. Right now, I am dubious. The group breaks up into folks who do ID/TD research, versus those who do … Continue reading →

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Branding Logos

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Keith Brown

So everybody seems pretty familiar with logos these days. In fact, product branding has made some logos more recognizable to children than the faces of their grandparents. But I want to talk about the oldest of all logos… the ancient … Continue reading →

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Coburn puts NSF ‘under the microscope’

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Britt Holbrook

US Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) recently released a report that takes issue with some NSF practices — including funding the social sciences. David Bruggeman has an interesting discussion of the report here.

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