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Station Crew Begins Spacewalk
03.28.05
International Space Station crewmembers began a spacewalk early Monday to finish preparations to welcome the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV). They opened the airlock hatch at 1:25 a.m. EST for their mission's second and final planned spacewalk.
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March 23
Darwinism forbidden
In 1925, Austin Peay, Governor of Tennessee, signed a statute forbidding the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in state schools.
March 24
Tuberculosis
TuberculosisIn 1882, German scientist Robert Koch announced to the Berlin Physiological Society that he had discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis. Three weeks later, on April 10, he published an article entitled The Etiology of Tuberculosis. In 1884, in a second paper with the same title, he first expounded "Koch's postulates," which have since become basic to studies of all infectious diseases. He had observed the bacillus in association with all cases of the disease, had grown the organism outside the body of the host, and had reproduced the disease in a susceptible host inoculated with a pure culture of the isolated organism. Koch was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1905. He died in 1910,
March 26
Thoreau
In 1848, Henry David Thoreau delivered his first draft of his best-known work Civil Disobedience to his publisher. This book was one written during the famous two years (1845-7) he spent living on Walden Pond, during which time he was jailed one night for refusing to pay a poll tax meant to support America's war in Mexico. His essay on this experience was first published as Resistance to Civil Government, but later known as On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, which in its call for passive resistance to unjust laws was to inspire Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Though his writings did not sell well during his lifetime, he is now recognized for his essays on conservation. His first book of essays was Natural History of Massachusetts (1842).
March 27
Yury Alekseyevich Gagarin
Died 27 Mar 1968 (born 9 Mar 1934)
Soviet cosmonaut who on 12 Apr 1961 became the first man to travel into space when he was 27 years old. He graduated from the Soviet Air Force cadet school in 1957. He volunteered to become a cosmonaut and joined a group of test pilots for training. Three days before the launch, he was informed he had been selected to pilot the Vostok 1 spacecraft. He orbited the Earth once in 1 hour 29 minutes at a maximum altitude of 187 miles (301 km). He never went into space again but trained other cosmonauts and toured several other nations. Gagarin was killed with another pilot in the crash of a two-seat jet aircraft while on what was described as a routine training flight. His ashes were placed in a niche in the Kremlin wall.
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Here's Your Damn ANWR Drilling Compromise by Myrrander :
Someone on another thread mentioned that they wished there could be a discussion about Alaska National Wildlife Refuge oil drilling without the sort of anecdotal "oh, it's so pretty" rhetoric that tends to define the liberal stance on ANWR drilling. I thought it was a valid point, and so I present my attempt to answer the request -- the 100% "tug-my-heartstrings-not" ANWR thread. Complete with facts and hopefully nothing much more.
Mercury, Lies, and the EPA by greatbasin2 :
The Environmental Protection Agency contracted a study of mercury pollution with Harvard University. So, what happens when the study doesn't say what the EPA adminstrators wanted? The study gets dumped. According to today's Washington Post the EPA's Al McGartland questioned the methodology of the study and alleged that the study was received too late to receive consideration in writing the new mercury pollution rules.
A Message On World Water Day 2005 by jillian :
Will the world survive the level of lack of concern of its people? Will we continue to be more spendthrift than frugal? World Water Day gives us the opportunity to address these questions. Here, water is lacking.
Al Franken Says Allowing Pollution is a Subsidy by Eric J in MN :
Al Franken said yesterday that companies "have no right to pollute...they should clean up their act."
Allowing pollution is a "subsidy for industry." It's not "free market enterprise" to let companies pollute, it's "giving them money."
Haida Nation Battles Weyerhaueser with Blockades by SusanHu :
The Haida nation people, who've inhabited British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands for 9,000 years, have blocked all access to logging operations.
Sweet 16 Exxon Valdez by novs :
I thought it important to mark the anniversary of the Exxon-Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound. As Senator Cantwell's amendment to remove drilling in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge from the budget saw a 51-49 defeat, and Gov. Frank Murkowski's recent appearance on 'Real Time with Bill Maher' in which he refuted the idea that alternative energy is realistic, it seems that some have forgotten the price of our oil addiction.
EPA to study pesticides in toddlers by Ndaniels33 :
The Bush Administration's new nominee Stephen L. Johnson is endorsing EPA studies on conducted on children's exposure to pesticides. Past administrations considered controversial trials involving human subjects forbidden fruit. But Mr. Johnson has been quoted "We are willing to consider that such studies can be useful". Such studies on human subjects could violate the long-held medical and ethical standards set by the Nuremburg Code <www.ushmm.org/research/doctors/Nuremberg_Code.htm> involving the study of human subjects.
Mother Earth and the Rapture by lorraine :
The earth will be kindling for end-time Christians; the earth will be destroyed to satisfy big corporations' greed. What the hell can we tree-hugging, earth-loving progressives do about it?.
Bill Moyers wrote a brilliant piece in the New York Review of Books, in which he discussed the Bush environmental policy, and the impact that this administration's affiliation with end-time Christians is having on the roll-back of protections of the earth. Moyers' basic thesis is that for Christians who believe the Rapture is imminent, there is no need to take care of the earth. After all, not only did God, in Genesis, give man dominion over the earth, the end times are so close that there is no need to be accountable to future generations.
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Intelligent Design:The Tactics of Philosophy by DarkSyde :
Over and over I've seen the Evolution Vs Intelligent Design Creationism debate stray from the empirical to the metaphysical. You end up discussing issues not based on observed data, but on 'naturalism' Vs whatever the creationist in question happens to believe. Obviously the IDCists want to avoid a discussion of the data like the plague! I really can't blame them, that's where they're weaker than a kitten and where science is a 500 pound gorilla.
Intelligent Design Creationist Review: Phil Johnson by DarkSyde :
As the story goes, following an emotionally exhausting divorce and mid-life crises of some sort, Johnson was born again as an evangelical Christian, and eventually set out to destroy science in general and evolutionary biology specifically.
Intelligent Design Creationists: Moonies and Liars by DarkSyde :
Wells is perhaps best known to the antievolution Intelligent Design Creationist (IDC) movement for his book Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? published in 2000. The title is chosen for the format in which Wells attacks evolutionary biology, choosing what he claims are central pillars of the concepts underlying modern evolutionary biology and exposing them as fraudulent or highly suspect.
Bu$hCorp hides GMO corn oopsy. by MH in PA :
So what else is new. They lie all the time, so why should it surprise us when they just avoid mentioning inconvenient facts?
Intelligent Design: Demsbki & Behe by DarkSyde :
Michael Behe is a biochemist and Professor turned author and public speaker who advocates Intelligent Design Creationism. He is best known for his book Darwin's Black Box or DBB. In DBB the idea of Irreducible Complexity (IRC) is introduced by Behe which is the assertion that an IRC system cannot evolve in a step-by-step manner in which each transient step provides the organism with an adaptive advantage. This is a newer biomolecular version of an old argument that asked the question "What good is half an eye?"
Change of pace - Octopi' 'walking' w/ POLL by Stand Strong :
Octopuses (Octopi?) walking on two-'feet' (tentacles.)
Intelligent Design: Dr Hugh Ross and Ken Ham by DarkSyde :
Hugh Ross is an Old Earth Creationist who holds both a M. Sc. and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Toronto. He founded and serves as President and Director of Research of an organization called Reasons to Believe (RtB) based in Pasadena, California. RtB is described in their own words as " .. an international, interdenominational ministry established to communicate the uniquely factual basis for belief in the Bible as the wholly true Word of God and for personal faith in Jesus Christ..." You can occasionally catch Dr. Ross on cable Christian channels where he often appears in the same hour as Carl Baugh. (Compared to Baugh, Dr. Ross is a freaking Nobel Laureate)
Intelligent Design: An Honest Creationist by DarkSyde :
Glenn Morton is a petroleum geophysicist who holds a Bachelor of Science in physics and currently makes his living as Director of Technology in charge of petrophysics, reservoir characterization, reservoir simulation and geophysical visualization, at a large independent oil company. Unlike the creationists reviewed in this series to date Glenn is unique: He fully accepts evolutionary biology, geochronology, and astronomy, along with the findings of pretty much all of science. So why does he classify himself as a Creationist and why would I do so here?
Science Friday: Dinosaur Meat, get your red hot Dinosaur Meat! by Devilstower :
It's not quite time to dream up visions of Jurassic Park, and you're not going to be able to wander into the local Longhorn Steak House and order up a T-Rex T-Bone. But something really remarkable has been going on with dinosaur fossils.
Intelligent Design: Afterthoughts by DarkSyde :
In wrapping up the IDC series "Know Your Creationists" some final thoughts that don't fit easily into the format. I mentioned on another thread that most people can get by fine without ever being taught evolutionary biology, just as most folks can get by fine without being taught cosmology, and asked why should we teach evolution but not creationism or the evidence against evolution? Here, I look at the importance of scientific integrity, and its role in education using an analogy to IDC and evolutionary biology we can all stand back and judge independently of the baggage associated with the former controversy.
Those Wacky Intelligent Designers... by DraconisRex :
There's been a bit about Intelligent Design bandied about in some diaries. I, for one, think ID is a travesty and nothing more than disguised creationism.
Creationism: For Christians who Lack Faith? by HadIt :
Now, I have never considered myself a deeply religious man. Mainly because I do that thing called sinning. Some days more and some days less, and I do "bad" things of different kinds - everything from impatience to anger to sex. I am usually not proud of those things, or often have deep misgivings after the fact. But I am a sinner, by the definition of the Bible. So perhaps in many minds, I am not authorized to make any comment on faith.
Medicine & Healthcare
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Wal-Mart Refuses to Sell Emergency Contraception by JR Monsterfodder :
Let's see, where was I when I left you? Oh, yeah: Wal-Mart caters to the most intolerant elements of the Conservative right. Really, this one is so blatant it even surprises me:
PTSD - killing makes it worse by splashy :
The Chicago Tribune has a story that focuses on how war is appearing to be harder on women than men, probably because the women have had previous abuse and trauma, which sets them up for more Post Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD).
DR Congo: the 'one-dollar U.N. girls' by Plutonium Page :
In January 2005, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) released their 7th annual list of the "Top Ten Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories". The list includes the resurgence of the worldwide tuberculosis epidemic (which I wrote about here), as well as the devastating effects of the conflicts in northern Uganda, DR Congo, Colombia, Somalia, and Chechnya, on the people living there
National Health Care Is A National Security Issue by Minister AlX :
A few weeks ago I wrote a piece suggesting that Democrats should draft former CentCom Commander, and perennial pain in Bush's ass, Gen. Anthony Zinni to run for Senate. Part of my argument for why Democrats should embrace officers like Zinni, is that security issues very often intersect with progressive values. One such area is the need to create a national health care system, with the capacity to handle a major biological attack.
'Technical Virgins' more likely to contract STDs: Yale/Columbia study by baldandy :
More evidence that the abstinence-only (as opposed to an abstinence-first) sex education is failing big time, at least with respect to kids taking the "virginity pledge", according to researchers from Yale and Columbia Universities.
The Downward Spiral - An EMT's Story by Toktora :
I started working as an EMT shortly after my 20th birthday (in 1999). I became an EMT partly as a way to pay the bills during college, partly as a resume builder for getting into medical school, but mainly for the desire to help people when they need helping the most.
USA kills Rubella... by Blue Shark :
In a spectacular leap forward for preventative medicine it was announced today that "German Measles" has been eradicated in the United States with Canada soon to follow.
Since Friday, about 200 Americans needlessly died by tiggers thotful spot :
Since Friday, about 200 Americans needlessly died because they lack adequate health insurance!
New article talks about a Universal Healthcare plan by truthbetold :
This may be a first step considering the entrenched resistance to big healthcare system changes in Congress and elsewhere. It will do little IMO about the quality, cost and inefficiency problems in the current system, and does nothing about access problems due to low provider numbers. Still, it is at least bringing this important issue back into some realistic focus while at the same time the Schiavo case takes all realistic aspects of healthcare the other way!
New Indian Drug Policy No Boon for Sick and Poor by Meteor Blades :
In August 2003, after an eight-month-long deadlock, the World Trade Organization finally came to agreement on allowing countries to override intellectual property rules governing imports of pharmaceuticals if they faced a public health crisis. Previously, countries could legally acquire cheaper drugs only from domestic sources.
Life Expectancy by Jerome a Paris :
The most recent life expectancy statistics for France has just been published (4 page pdf, in French), and within that document comes a nice visual of one of the most amazing "laws" of social sciences:
Bush's Stem Cell Policy Leading to Abominations by financial :
In China they are treating patients with stem cells from aborted fetuses. This is a direct result of the phoney religious right preventing the U.S. from maintaining the lead in stem cells. Other unregulated societies will go to abominations in their pursuit of profit. We have given up the lead for four years, imagine four more.
Genetic Testing Spurs Orwellian Fears by Rep Louise Slaughter :
I wanted to make sure everyone here at DailyKos was aware of this important piece of legislation I am co-sponsoring. If passed and signed into law the "Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act" could very well protect each and every one of us in the years to come. Please take a moment to read my recent press release on the issue and this recent story from UPI. This issue, while not politically hot right now, should be closely followed by all privacy rights advocates and I hope you will follow the issue closely as a blog community.
An outsider's view of US health care by Sirocco :
If Theresa Schiavo had lacked health coverage fifteen years ago, would we ever have heard of her plight? With a view to the right wing's anguished insistence on the tax-payer financed life support of one person against her will, I have translated an op-ed from the Norwegian Aftenposten. The author, Torgrim Eggen, is a novelist spending a lot of time in the USA, whose health care system he here explains to his countrymen. While the bare facts may be familiar to many, hopefully some will find his outsider's view refreshing.
[UPDATED] Alarm! No Korea Confirms Bird Flu Outbreak by SusanHu :
In simple layman terms, here's why the threat of pandemic and North Korea's utter lack of public health measures may be on a collision course: The disease can LEAP easily from bird to human, particularly through migratory birds such as ducks as explained in detail in the Feb. 28 issue of The New Yorker.
The 'right to life' story that we missed by Plutonium Page :
In the middle of the Terri Schiavo media circus, a surprising item on the GOP congressional agenda has slipped under the radar. No, it's not about banning stem cell research. In fact, they're discussing changes to Bush's stem cell research policy.
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Brain Dead? Molybdenum and Whale Oil tell our sorry tale. by Jerome a Paris :
What happens when there is a supply-demand imbalance in a market with very low demand elasticity, like oil?
In other words, how high should the price of oil rise to cause a drop in demand sufficient to clear the market in a situation where supply is contrained by physical and/or political factors?
I can't think of a creative title for Alaska Oil Drilling by ohlookitspaul :
As many of you most likely know, the U.S. Senate voted this Wednesday to strike down an amendment proposed by Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) to the Senate budget resolution that would have removed provisions leading to drilling in parts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. While this does not mean that oil drilling in the Wildlife Refuge is set in stone, it is a large step down the wrong path towards oil dependence and environmental exploitation. Proponents of oil drilling in the Wildlife Refuge have relied on misleading numbers and hidden facts to show what looks to me like unhealthy greed and a disregard not only for our environment but for the future of the American people in regards to energy.
Freedom From Foreign Oil Act of 2005 by Boppy :
The energy balance issue comes down to methodology and common sense. Common sense or the "straight face" test says an energy source that receives a large portion of its energy from the sun, such as ethanol, has a positive energy balance. This is one of the fundamental advantages of renewable energy.
The Bullshit Behind Gas Prices by Mr Furious :
I don't have a problem with high gas prices, per se. If high gas prices will act as an incentive for people to dump SUVs and conserve more, I think that's great. Make it $3 a gallon and Detroit will be forced to raise mileage standards because of market demands, not the EPA.
My problem is this: At a time when American soldiers are ostensibly dying to secure our "national interests" (ie: oil), I find it unseemly (or, fucking outrageous) that oil companies are making record profits*, and the government has done nothing to reduce consumption.
Some facts about crude oil this year by SW :
WorldOil.com - Online Magazine Article: Special Focus - Feb-2005: "If any spare wellhead capacity still exists, it is for crude that is both heavy and sour. The refineries that are equipped to refine this type of crude are currently operating at 100% capacity. Compounding this problem is the fact that the world's light sweet crude supply is also in decline. Almost 90% of new oil projects produce oil that is either sour, heavy, or both.
500 miles to the gallon. by rolet :
According to an article in today's LA Times, the technology exists to build a vehicle that would get 500 miles to the gallons. Why isn't this being done?
Saving the environment versus just acting like you're doing it by psetzer :
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/3/24/202613/078 discusses how we can use ethanol or methanol to make cars that get 500 miles to the gallon. Why isn't everyone using this amazing technology to make our lives so much better? Is it a conspiracy of oil companies or just the 'sheeple'? Perhaps we should step back and look at things in a more skeptical point of view.
Confessions of a Petroleum Addict by Dittoz :
I woke up this morning and headed towards the bathroom. I turned on the sink faucet for my two little kitties and started the shower for myself. As I began to search for a towel and clean clothes the bathroom began to fill with steam. Once I found my clothes for the day, guess what? They were wrinkled. I plugged in the iron, the coffee maker, and went into the living room to turn on the television. CNN. Terri Schiavo. MSNBC. Terri Schiavo. And dare I say it FoxNews. Terri Schiavo.
A Peak Oil Nightmare by DarkSyde :
I wrote the folloiwng last Christmas in a prosaic format to encourage understanding of the danger facing us. As the price of oil climbs, I think it's worth becoming educated on and I've tried to make this piece entertaining enough to slog through and pick up some science and economics.
Caspian Oil - a Sunday Special by Jerome a Paris :
Oil & gas in the Caspian has a long history - indeed it is one of the earliest oil production regions in the world, with Baku a major oil center in the second half of the 19th century and beyond. What makes the situation today interesting is the simultaneuous appearence of three things: (i) new reserves disovered offshore, (ii) the fact that, with the break up of the Soviet Union, the oil is located in (new) countries that are keen to have foreign investment and (iii) these countries have no direct access to the world markets.
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Slipping an extremist appointment under the radar.. by tribe34 :
While everyone is talking about the sanctity of life a la Terri Schiavo... This appears to have gone largely unnoticed by the blogosphere: it has been reported on by the Canadian blog site POGG -EH? (Peace Order and Good Government) with links to the Humane Society of America:Bush's Interior Secretary Gale Norton has named Matthew J. Hogan to be acting director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.What.. you've not heard of this guy, you say... cant be too bad? Well, check these credentials out:
IMAX theaters reject film over evolution by luckygrrrl :
I hope the good people of the South who are "offended" by this decision will let their voices be heard!
Some theaters in South believe 'Volcanoes' a tough sell
Scientific American Gets Snarky by Libertyordeath :
The Extremist Christian community has been screaming about the teaching of evolution in schools as if it were still a controversial issue, and there has been a concerted attempt to turn accepted scientific principles into mere matters of opinion which can be debated in a "he said, she said" format.
Neo-cons in Tallahassee run amok; academic freedom in jeopardy by Sinfonian :
As if the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments in Florida's fair capital over Terri Schiavo wasn't enough, now we have proposed legislation essentially revoking the long-standing notion of academic freedom.
If this bill, titled (in true Republican through-the-looking-glass fashion) the "Academic Freedom Bill of Rights" (I'll wait for the laughter to die down), passes through the entire process (you know Jebbie will sign it into law if it gets that far), it will allow students to sue their professors for damages if they feel their beliefs are not being respected.
Education
While this is not necessarily a science category, you can not have good scientists without good education. So I will highlight education issues here.
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College Republican Scare Tactics Have Chilling Effect at California Junior College by fiddlinsteve :
Ten professors at Santa Rosa Junior College in California discovered anonymous "Red Star Flyers" posted on their doors on February 24, 2005, indicating that they were "communists." The College Republicans, an official school club, later took credit for the scare tactics. The event was dubbed "Operation Red Scare" on the California College Republicans web site.
Cheating your children's education - NCLB's Fatal Flaws by Scoopster :
It all started back in the late 90s, then Boy George helped push for a new educational system in Texas. This system emphasized standardized testing over more focused teaching by more teachers with smaller classes.
Academic Freedom Fried in Florida by zeppomarx :
The specific example used is that if a professor is talking about evolution, the student chimes in with "Bullshit", and the professor requires the student to explain and defend their alternate thesis - this is somehow "public ridicule". Of course this is all notwhithstanding the student's prior attempt to ridicule the professor's curiculum which is aparently just fine. Right. People shouldn't go to school to learn. To look at alternate possibilities, to use critical thought on an expanded knowledge base to come to adult conclusions. No siree! They should go to have someone pat them on the head and say "hey man - whatever you believe is good enough for an A in THIS course!"
Academic Freedom: Beware "Reasonable" Restraints by Hprof :
I came in late to the discussion on Armando's front-page post last night Limits to Academic Freedom? Armando's reflections were prompted by a recent speech from Columbia University president Lee Bollinger, about disputes over academic freedom at Columbia and elsewhere.
Armando wrote that Bollinger had ventured onto "dangerous ground" in seeming to recognize some restraints on academic freedom, but felt that his proposals nonetheless sounded "reasonable."
As I'll explain on the flip, those interested in academic freedom--and those on the left more generally--need to be wary of this kind of "reasonableness," especially when attacks on the university are coming from well-organized right-wing groups outside the academy.
See the world, get an education... or not. by Plutonium Page :
The U.S. Army's Tuition Assistanceship Program provides funds for soldiers to pursue an education, whether online or in classrooms around the world.
However, the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars might put an end to that, at least in South Korea. Stars and Stripes reports:
2+2=5 in Florida by darrelplant :
From Alligator Online via Alkaline Earth via The Poor Man, comes this gem from the Florida Senate. Just something to slip under the rug while the Schiavo thing's got people's attention:
Public vs. Private School by joewlarson :
Well, next year my wife Salina will reenter the workforce and our minds are boggling with last minute parsing of all the different configurations of day care, preschool, private kindergarten and public kindergarten for our 2 and 4 year olds (almost 3 and 5 by September), and how those will mesh
Limiting Academic Freedom in Florida by AaronBa :
As we have seen, the right often cloaks attempts to limit rights in the guise of establishing them. Dennis Baxley, a member of the Florida House, has introduced a bill that, he claims, would establish certain rights for all students. He details them in the bill:
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