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Posts tagged as “science”

Connections: Monsanto, Ethanol, and Nastier Rootworms

Dr. Newquist draws our attention to new research (Gassman et al., 2011) that finds Monsanto's Bt corn contributing to the spread of western corn rootworms. Dr. Newquist says Monsanto isn't wholly to blame for these evolving superbugs; he says we…

Government Science Funding Supports Economic Growth

The Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at the old Homestake mine in Lead is a big deal to at least some of my neighbors here in Spearfish. The big science project offers some really well-paying jobs as well as…

Gov. Christie Says We Cause Climate Change

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie just joined Sibby's list of RINOs fronting for the New World Order*, declaring that climate change and human impact thereupon are real: Christie's come full circle on the issue. Last year, he told a town…

United States Exceptionally Dumb About Evolution

Yale poli-sci and econ prof Chris Blattman finds this really cool chart plotting the relationship between national wealth (as measured by gross domestic product per capita) and belief in evolution: Only 40% of Americans deem true the statement that "Human…

Koch-Backed Climate Science Deniers Finding Climate Science Pretty Good

The oil-magnate Koch Brothers have been pouring money into the Berkeley Earth Science Temperature project to find the flaws in the science underlying the general consensus about climate change. On March 31, lead researcher and climate science skeptic Richard Muller…

Rounds-Daugaard Budget Cuts Jobs, Programs at SDSU

Well, at least we still have D-I football.... Over one hundred well-trained professionals are having a harder time this morning explaining why they would want to live in South Dakota. Our flagship university and my alma mater, South Dakota State…