Oil Spill Math: How Much Risk for How Much Oil?

How much oil has spilled? Big quantities are sometimes hard to grasp. They are outside our everyday experience. When you hear that millions...

Is There Scientific Consensus on Climate Change?

Research Shows Scientists Agree on Global Warming Researchers at Stanford and the University of Toronto noted that some people dispute wheth...

Know Your Spills--Confusing Names and Oil Quantity Equivalents

Confused about the many names for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? Here is a useful list of equivalents. Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill--This fol...

Carl Sagen "Sings" of Science (with Dawkins, Hawking, et al.)

Can the coolness of science be conveyed by a sort of synthetic music video? You decide: [If you can't see the video, watch it at YouTube...

Don't Sign If You Can't Do The Math

A recent research paper found that there was a strong correlation between basic understanding of numbers and ability of subprime borrowers t...

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have analyzed 60 years' worth of National Weather Service rainfall records in nine North...

Weird Science Words

Science Dictionary Here are some weird science words. Be careful how you use them. Auscultation —Listening. Especially listening to the so...