There's an aspect of Jim Hansen’s piece on global warming in the New York Review of Books that I missed. The intro says:

Jim Hansen is Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Hi...

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Daniel Mosquin is a working scientist. He maintains a wonderful blog Botany Photo of the Day. The blog contains science. It ranks at 35 on the Technorati scheme that Nature used to puff the top 50 science blogs. But it isn't in that list. I confess. I didn't notice. And Daniel is very magnanimou...

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Book reviews are not always reviews of books. In the big review magazines they are an excuse to sound off. The latest New York Review of Books contains an absolute lulu, a piece that ought to be required reading for sane people everywhere. Alas, it doesn't seem to be getting a whole lot of traction....

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Bacteria threatened by antibiotics respond by slurping up bits of DNA from their surroundings, some of which are likely to make them resistant to the antibiotics. That ought to worry people. It probably won’t, one reason why antibiotic resistance is the problem it is.

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Oh my! Someone called Erin has come out and said it: I love dorks! This has partially manifested itself in a “total girl-hard-on” for PZ over at Pharyngula, who is not that modest that he didn’t note it. As it happens I am not in the market, but if I were, I’d try to impress her with how much rand...

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