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March 21, 2007
Here's what other folks are saying about the rally:
A faith based review from BPT
A nice photo essay and review from JohnKerry.com
A review from the Daily Kos
Some bland irreverence from a bland dissenter (C'mon, man. I know you can do better than that!)
What Sour N Sweet learned at Action Day…
March 21, 2007
It was a beautiful day for a rally yesterday, and the turnout was pretty good. One article claimed 1,500 attendees, but that number seems a bit high.
This was the latest rally sponsored in part by the Alaska Wilderness League, the last one held at the Capitol in 2005 focusing on ANWR and the plight…
March 20, 2007
Researchers from the University of Montana are using bee hives as a sort of early warning system for chemicals and pathogens by analyzing the change in frequency of "collective buzzing" when exposed to contaminants:
"We found bees respond within 30 seconds or less to the presence of a toxic…
March 19, 2007
I have been waiting about six months to see this. Here's just a sample:
Planet Earth starts this coming Sunday, March 25 at 8 p.m. on Discovery (if you hadn't seen the huge ad at the top of the page).
March 19, 2007
Well, tomorrow is the big day. In 24 hours I'll be riding the Metro into DC to join thousands of others in support of Climate Crisis Action Day. It starts at 11 a.m. EST with a rally on the west lawn of the Capitol (facing the mall), where several unnamed speakers will address global warming, ANWR…
March 18, 2007
Hello and welcome (or welcome back) to the reincarnation of The Voltage Gate here at ScienceBlogs. I'm excited to be a part of such a diverse community.
For those of you that are familiar with the old site, business will be as usual; for those unfamiliar, I blog mostly about ecology, evolution and…
March 18, 2007
A cheetah crouches, shoulders hunched, barely visible through golden stems. The antelope on the edge of the herd has stopped chewing, and scans the horizon with a nervous eye. As it takes a step forward to rejoin the safety of the group, the cheetah makes her move, bounding with impossibly huge…
March 18, 2007
"Everybody knows that the autumn landscape in the north woods is the land, plus a red maple, plus ruffed grouse. In terms of conventional physics, the grouse represents only a millionth of either the mass or the energy of an acre. Yet subtract the grouse and the whole thing is dead."
-Aldo Leopold…
March 18, 2007
This month Conservation magazine published an article rehashing the "built landscape" hypothesis of Amazonia, which basically says that the incredible biodiversity seen in the South American rainforest is largely due to a skilled agricultural society of millions that possessed the capacity to…