science

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Burnt out by Climate Change: Our Hurricane Compassion Fatigue

By Gail Ukockis | (Informed Comment) | – – Harvey’s destructive force on Texas and Louisiana has generated many compelling pictures and disturbing stories. Irma’s violent impact has already started in the Caribbean. Meanwhile, Jose and Katia are whirling into possible threats. Other natural disasters in the world involve even more casualties, such as […]

Caribbean

Sint Maarten: Live footage of Hurricane Irma destroying the Maho Beach WebCam

Juan Cole

PTZtv | Webcam video | – – “Live footage of Hurricane Irma destroying the MahoBeachCam.com camera located at AAA Rent-A-Car in St Maarten. We will rebuild!” Live footage as Hurricane Irma destroys Maho Beach Cam in St Maarten 9/6/2017 NB. I was in Sint Maarten in June, and here are two pictures of Maho Beach, […]

Natural Disasters

Media Ignore Harvey’s Devastation of Working Class Communities

contributors

By Jake Johnson, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | – – “Hurricanes don’t care if you’re rich, poor, white, or black—but that doesn’t mean that every person is equally vulnerable to a storm.” People wait to be rescued from their flooded homes after the area was inundated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey on August 28, […]

Evolution

Mission Accomplished: Iraq drops chapter on evolution from school textbooks

contributors

By Brian Whitaker | ( Al-Bab.com ) | – – Iraq’s education ministry has quietly dropped a chapter about evolution from its biology textbooks. The ministry has so far given no explanation but the change has brought complaints and ridicule from Iraqis on social media. Among the complainers, Dr Mohammed Fawzi, who studied genetic engineering, […]

astronomy and outer space

Why no Eclipse Denialists? The Same Science predicts Global Heating

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Eminent physicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s tweet pointing out that there are no eclipse denialists the way there are dedicated climate change denialists went viral: Odd. No one is in denial of America’s Aug 21 total solar eclipse. Like Climate Change, methods & tools of science predict […]

science

Brain Fitness: Why you’re losing out if you’re not Learning another Language

contributors

By Gaia Vince | ( Mosaic: The Science of Life) | – – Why being bilingual helps keep your brain fit Most people in the world speak more than one language, suggesting the human brain evolved to work in multiple tongues. If so, asks Gaia Vince, are those who speak only one language missing out? […]

Evolution

Turkey abandons High Tech Future by Banning Teaching of Evolution

contributors

By James Williams | (The Conversation) | – – In the US there have been many attempts to expunge evolution from the school curriculm or demand that creationism – the idea that all life was uniquely created by God – is given equal treatment in science textbooks. While all these have failed, the government in […]

Displaced and Refugees

N. American Scholars of Mideast react to SCOTUS Decision on Trump Muslim Ban

contributors

Middle East Studies Association of North America | – – On Monday, June 26, 2017, the United States Supreme Court issued a limited stay in the case that MESA has joined as a plaintiff, IRAP v. Trump, partially reinstating the revised Executive Order (EO) from March 6, 2017 (for MESA’s statement on EO 13780 see […]