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Prostate Pill Problems, A Faster Internet, From Whence Came The Gamburtsevs, Dropping The Climate To Sell, Alien Rats, Burning Then Dying, And Much More…
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The universe as we know it now
Is not the universe as we once believed it to be
It’s bigger… smaller…
and much more complex than any of the great cosmic ponderers of the past could possibly have imagined
Now, as always, we stand on the brink of history, at the pinnacle of scientific and technological capability…
What we will learn in the next wave of scientific discoveries will cover more ground, uncover more mysteries and produce a more detailed picture of the universe than the one we now see…
Along the way to this greater discovering, we will encounter strange new possibilities,
unintuitive potential universes in a multiverse of time and space probabilities that force us to conceive of our reality as only one amongst many others…
as though our entire universe is but a single page of a reference book upon a library shelf surrounded by volume upon volume of cosmic narratives…
And then again… if the past has taught us one thing about the universe it is that it has always been strange…
Just when you’re sure of one you’ll find it’s gone and made a change…
In attempt to keep you in tune with at least one version of reality we bring you
This week in science… coming up next
Is the pill causing increases in prostate cancer?
A faster internet on the way!
Gamburtsev origins news… not once, but twice!
A Frozen Planet treading on thin ice?
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Alien rats…
First comes the burning, then the dying…
And, the pain.
The Leonids are here!
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13:15 Justin: Is there an anti birth control movement out there?
Yes, many Christian, namely Catholics, believe that taking the oral contraceptive pill is a sin.
http://www.catholic.com/tracts/birth-control
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_contraception
Here is the paper by Margel and Fleshner:
http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/1/2/e000311.full
The authors were careful to include in their summary:
… but you still get ignorant headlines like Is oral contraceptive pill fuelling prostate cancer?
Your derogatory comments about Chinese (regarding their space program) was insulting, rude, and unprofessional. Your tone was not reflective of the image I would like the public to have of scientists. Remember, you are role models in the scientific community. Please help portray a culture of science that can reach across geographic and political boundaries and create social harmony.
Hi VV,
My tone towards the Chinese government was derogatory, insulting, rude, and unprofessional?
Derogatory?
Yes, I am often derogatory towards policies of the Chinese government as they continue to refuse their citizens even the basic rights of free speech, and worse.
Insulting? Or Rude?
Compared to how the Chinese government treats its non-hypothetical people I think I’d have to say a lot more than that to be anywhere near rude.
Unprofessional?
No, unless I were in China where I would likely lose my job or worse over such comments, even though such comments would never actually air.
Zhang Hong, a deputy editor with the Economic Observer newspaper, was fired after co-writing a March 1, 2010, editorial carried in 13 Chinese newspapers advocating the abolition of China’s discriminatory hukou (household registration) system.
China Economic Times editor Bao Yuehang was fired in May 2010 in apparent retaliation for a March 17, 2010, story that exposed vaccine quality shortfalls in Shanxi province linked to four children dying and at least 74 others falling ill.
On April 20, 2010, 10 unidentified assailants attacked Beijing News reporter Yang Jie while he photographed the site of a forced eviction. Police at the scene briefly detained the assailants before releasing them, characterizing their actions as a “misunderstanding.”
On September 8, 2010, security guards beat three reporters from Jilin and Changchun television stations attempting to cover a fire at the City College of Jilin Architecture and Civil Engineering.
http://www.hrw.org/world-report-2011/china