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May 4, 2012
Ralph Hall Demands to Know What NOAA Spends on Magicians, Comedians, Mind Readers
Rep. Ralph Hall finally found his General Services Administration-style confab scandal. No, it doesn't involve EPA employees playing a blindfolded game of Crucify the Energy Executive during a conference at The Venetian. But it's the next best thing: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati ... More >>
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March 6, 2012
Did Climate Change Create Texas' Hellacious 2011 Summer, Or Just Make It Worse?
Texas's pasture-desiccating, road-warping devil heat last summer has earned a spot alongside hot spells in Moscow (2010) and France (2003) as one of the wild outliers of a climate pushed to extremes. A study from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Columbia Earth Institute say g ... More >>
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January 9, 2012
Dueling Research: Fracked Shale Gas Worse For Climate Change Than Coal! Or, The Opposite!
In the rarefied halls of Cornell, the atmospheric-science equivalent of the gauntlet has been thrown. At stake is nothing less than the suitability of one of the most plentiful, domestically producible forms of energy in North America to replace a fuel speeding climate change and emitting tons of kn ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
North Texas Bets Big on Pumping from Lake Texoma
Environmentalists fear plan will let invasive zebra mussels spread.
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December 15, 2011
As Physicists Near Discovery of God Particle, A Word With SMU Prof Involved In the Search
Via.You've probably heard that an international contingent of physicists in Switzerland is this close to identifying the Higgs boson, aka the "God particle." Currently, the Higgs is the theoretical mechanism that explains how matter obtained mass following the Big Bang. The theory is that it ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
UT Southwestern Docs May Have Found the Pathway to Revolutionary Cancer Treatment
Researchers at UT Southwestern published a study in the journal Nature Sunday identifying a cancer-specific metabolic pathway that fuels only the growth of certain kinds of kidney and adrenal tumors. This is a pretty remarkable finding, chiefly because if you can halt that specific metabolic process ... More >>
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November 2, 2011
There Are No Texas Oysters in Your Near Future
Steven DoyleHouston-based food journalist Robb Walsh wrote yesterday about the red tide outbreak, which has caused the delayed opening of Texas' oyster beds. Oyster harvesting was closed until further notice by the Texas Department of Health State Services (DSHS) on October 26, leaving Walsh ... More >>
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September 16, 2011
Chatting With a NOAA Meteorologist About This Drought: What It Is and What It Ain't
Photo by Brantley HargroveA stock pond in Archer CountySo, what's our problem? Mostly, it's La Nina, that little trollop. She's been messin' with Texas for a long time. And the relationship between her cool Pacific sea-surface temperatures and dry times here is pretty well established. For n ... More >>
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June 2, 2011
Say These Names Three Times Fast
Photo by Brantley HargroveA stock pond in Archer CountySo, what's our problem? Mostly, it's La Nina, that little trollop. She's been messin' with Texas for a long time. And the relationship between her cool Pacific sea-surface temperatures and dry times here is pretty well established. For n ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
Toxic Avenger: In the War Between the Feds and Texas, EPA Chief Al Armendariz has Science on His Side. Is That Enough?
Photo by Brantley HargroveA stock pond in Archer CountySo, what's our problem? Mostly, it's La Nina, that little trollop. She's been messin' with Texas for a long time. And the relationship between her cool Pacific sea-surface temperatures and dry times here is pretty well established. For n ... More >>
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September 17, 2010
Next Week at SMU, the Discovery Institute's Finally Nailing Darwin For Good
If you fell prey to the siren call of the Discovery Institute's 2007 Darwin vs. Design conference at Southern Methodist University, well, dust off your fossil records and get your ape suit to the dry cleaners, because next Thursday night we're gonna do it all again.Next week's panel discussion, " ... More >>
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September 16, 2010
Texas Motorplex Celebrates Its Unlikely Silver Anniversary With A Little Help From Championship Driver John Force.
If you fell prey to the siren call of the Discovery Institute's 2007 Darwin vs. Design conference at Southern Methodist University, well, dust off your fossil records and get your ape suit to the dry cleaners, because next Thursday night we're gonna do it all again.Next week's panel discussion, " ... More >>
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August 19, 2010
Who Said Arts Kids Didn't Need Math?
If you fell prey to the siren call of the Discovery Institute's 2007 Darwin vs. Design conference at Southern Methodist University, well, dust off your fossil records and get your ape suit to the dry cleaners, because next Thursday night we're gonna do it all again.Next week's panel discussion, " ... More >>
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July 29, 2010
Fight To The Dino Death
If you fell prey to the siren call of the Discovery Institute's 2007 Darwin vs. Design conference at Southern Methodist University, well, dust off your fossil records and get your ape suit to the dry cleaners, because next Thursday night we're gonna do it all again.Next week's panel discussion, " ... More >>
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May 20, 2010
Spaced Out
If you fell prey to the siren call of the Discovery Institute's 2007 Darwin vs. Design conference at Southern Methodist University, well, dust off your fossil records and get your ape suit to the dry cleaners, because next Thursday night we're gonna do it all again.Next week's panel discussion, " ... More >>
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December 3, 2009
No Vampires Here
If you fell prey to the siren call of the Discovery Institute's 2007 Darwin vs. Design conference at Southern Methodist University, well, dust off your fossil records and get your ape suit to the dry cleaners, because next Thursday night we're gonna do it all again.Next week's panel discussion, " ... More >>
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March 26, 2009
Energy Matters
Centraltrak presents Setina's dark works
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March 12, 2009
A Shooting Zooey
See the stars of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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January 29, 2009
Pro-evolution Forces Take an Unexpected Win at the Texas Board of Education
Give this round to science in the fight over how to teach evolution in Texas schools
Blogs
September 4, 2008
Turns Out, the Failed Superconducting Super Collider Was Kinda Super
Give this round to science in the fight over how to teach evolution in Texas schools
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May 27, 2008
Before Tomorrow's Shareholder Showdown, Exxon Severs Some Ties
Give this round to science in the fight over how to teach evolution in Texas schools
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March 20, 2008
Battle Against Teaching Evolution in Texas Begins
Should creationism win out, textbooks throughout the country–not just Texas–will challenge the theory of evolution in science curricula
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January 8, 2008
French Lessons (From Mrs. Bill Gates)
Should creationism win out, textbooks throughout the country–not just Texas–will challenge the theory of evolution in science curricula
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October 11, 2007
Dinosaurs, Evolved
Should creationism win out, textbooks throughout the country–not just Texas–will challenge the theory of evolution in science curricula
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June 7, 2007
Global Warming, Suck It
Be Organic in the City at Fair Park
News
May 3, 2007
God in the Details
For a quarter-century Roy Abraham Varghese has been assembling God proofs. Along the way he won over the world's most influential atheist.
Blogs
March 22, 2007
TXU, The Buyout and the Power of "Greenmail"
For a quarter-century Roy Abraham Varghese has been assembling God proofs. Along the way he won over the world's most influential atheist.
Blogs
March 7, 2007
It's Bloody Bone-in Hot Out There
For a quarter-century Roy Abraham Varghese has been assembling God proofs. Along the way he won over the world's most influential atheist.
Blogs
January 24, 2007
Cough, Cough
For a quarter-century Roy Abraham Varghese has been assembling God proofs. Along the way he won over the world's most influential atheist.
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January 18, 2007
Humble Pi
WaterTower hearts love 'n' rockets
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March 30, 2006
Global Warming Is Real
Scientist Tim Flannery tells us why
Music
March 16, 2006
We Are Scientists
Tuesday, March 21, at the Granada Theatre
News
May 26, 2005
Life, Death and Money
Will Texas pony up bucks to lead in stem cell research? Pro-lifers hope not.
Best of Dallas
October 14, 2004
Best Outdoor Sculpture
The Chromosaurs, Dallas Museum of Natural History
Culture
June 28, 2001
The Iceman Cometh
Brian Fridge creates space to make images to create space with
News
June 7, 2001
Bugs in the Tubs
Texas consumers take on the whirlpool business--and that mysterious black crud shooting out of their bathtub jets
News
February 22, 2001
Planet Mold
The latest environmental hazard in Dallas and the country is displacing homeowners, covering walls and pets, and making lawyers even richer. Welcome to the weird world of "black mold."
News
January 11, 2001
Off the Killing Floor
Dallas-based Supreme Beef wins a major round in its court battle with the USDA
Dining
October 19, 2000
Seeds of Discontent
Can growing protests stem the tide of genetically engineered crops?
News
October 5, 2000
Good Vibrations
Disputed Reform Party candidate John Hagelin thinks he can change the world with the power of positive thinking. Does that make him nuts?
News
June 22, 2000
From Russia, with bugs
Scientists from the former Soviet Union's top-secret biological weapons lab join with Dallas researchers to fight a common enemy: the deadly Ebola virus
News
June 8, 2000
Whizzing inside the tent
ExxonMobil shareholders use their stock to push a corporate giant toward change
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April 13, 2000
Degrees of obsession
What's Up With the Weather and other small talk
News
March 23, 2000
Planting SEEDs of hope
An innovative math program recalculates which students will succeed and which will fail at DISD
News
April 1, 1999
Jurassic bucks
Trade in dinosaur bones pits entrepreneurs against scientists
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February 4, 1999
Vicious cooties
Trade in dinosaur bones pits entrepreneurs against scientists
News
November 26, 1998
Math wars
Plano parents lay siege to enthusiasts of the "New New Math" in a fight over how to fix the sorry state of math instruction in the public schools
News
July 2, 1998
Death on tap
Cryptosporidium kills AIDS victims in Dallas. Who will the pathogen claim next?
News
July 10, 1997
Stealth plant
A nuclear neighbor catches Denton residents by surprise
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September 21, 1995
Global warning
Republicans are aiding and abetting denial of the worldwide shift in climate
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