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14 March 2010
Texas 1 Science 0 or Why you should pull your kids out of public school in Texas.
The war on science in America shows no signs of abating. If anything, it’s gotten much worse. While I try hard to avoid politics on this journal, when people try to change science to their own beliefs or rewrite history for the same reasons, I’m going to talk about it. It doesn’t matter what political party you belong to. This case has to do with some political extremists who run …
No Matter What You Call It- It's a waste of time and energy.
The U.S. has recently lengthened by one month the annual setting of the clocks ahead by one hour. If you are in the USA, the time to do this is 2 AM this Sunday morning 14 March. The UK, and most of western Europe, will not jump forward until 28 March. Supposedly, the first person to have the idea was none other than Ben Franklin who argued it would save …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.