Get cash from your website. Sign up as affiliate

Sunday, November 14, 2010

“White House report on Gulf oil spill upsets science advisers - Dallas Morning News” plus 7 more

“White House report on Gulf oil spill upsets science advisers - Dallas Morning News” plus 7 more


White House report on Gulf oil spill upsets science advisers - Dallas Morning News

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 07:13 AM PST

WASHINGTON – The oil spill that damaged the Gulf of Mexico's reefs and wetlands is also threatening to stain the Obama administration's reputation for relying on science to guide policy. Academics, environmentalists and federal investigators have accused ...

Questionable Science Behind Academic Rankings - New York Times

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 02:40 PM PST

LONDON — For institutions that regularly make the Top 10, the autumn announcement of university rankings is an occasion for quiet self-congratulation. When Cambridge beat Harvard for the No. 1 spot in the QS World University Rankings this September ...

NJ students shocked after 'cool' science teacher busted for pot, providing booze to minors - New York Daily News

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 02:12 PM PST

Former and current students in New Jersey are taking to Facebook to defend a 26-year-old science teacher who was busted last week for drug possession and charges that he threw beer bashes at his apartment where underage partiers got drunk. Prosecutors ...

NASA: Cassini probe to resume science soon - AP - msnbc.com

Posted: 09 Nov 2010 04:48 PM PST

NASA expects the Cassini spacecraft to be back to normal before Thanksgiving after going into standby mode last week. Engineers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory reset the craft's onboard computer and cleared the problem. It's still unknown why the ...

Teen Science Sensations From California and Oregon Take Regional Title in Prestigious ... - Yahoo Finance

Posted: 13 Nov 2010 09:44 PM PST

PASADENA, Calif. , Nov. 14, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- A promising new technique for extracting meaning from genomic data and computer science research on recognition of emotion in the human voice earned top honors tonight for Andrew Liu and the team of Akash ...

Nerves are no match for these high-stakes science competitors - Los Angeles Times

Posted: 13 Nov 2010 11:38 PM PST

Over here, it was a battle of brains. Over there, it looked like a contest of dexterity. Both qualities were in play Saturday in Pasadena as a group of young people competed at Caltech for science scholarships totaling $9,000 — and others competed for ...

Walter Isard, 91, a pioneer in study of regional science - Philadelphia Daily News

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 12:07 AM PST

Walter Isard, 91, of Drexel Hill, an economist and regional scientist, died of heart failure Saturday, Nov. 6, at home. In 1956, Dr. Isard established the first academic regional science department in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania ...

Shuttle astronaut Mike Good wows crowd at Great Lakes Science Center - Cleveland Plain Dealer

Posted: 13 Nov 2010 03:32 PM PST

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- While riding aboard the space shuttle Atlantis, astronaut Mike Good snapped pictures of Lake Erie and his hometown. He returned this weekend to talk about his experiences. "It's a real honor to come back and join you in Cleveland where I ...

0 comments:

Post a Comment