Subject: Sciences

• What Al Gore Doesn't Know

  August 6, 2007

• New Coal Plant Gets Gassed

  October 18, 2007

• The Plant's Dead, But the Fallout's Still Coming Down

  October 24, 2007

• Daily Briefs: Repent, scientists

  By CHRIS PACKHAM Gotta keep the devil way down in the hole: If you're like me, you spend a lot of time sitting in your darkened kitchen drinking Taster's Choice and listening to the police scanner, and you smell so strongly of Aqua Velva that you can see wavy blue-colored odor-lines wafting from your torso. And, thanks to the police scanner, you know that life in parts of Kansas City is terrifying and dangerous. Unfortunately for people who like numbers, such as Nate Silver and Jimmy the Greek,

  November 24, 2008

• KC FreeThinkers shed their clothes to "Keep Winter Cold"

  The KC Free Thinkers -- a group of atheists, agnostics and humanists -- gained some notoriety when they erected a provocative billboard in Overland Park last October. Saturday, they're employing a different attention-grabbing tactic: taking off their clothes. But this frigid baptism has got nothing to do with God.

  January 9, 2009

• Kansas City Strip

  August 16, 2001

• Pile up! KU report makes commute even more depressing

  It's going to take more than a great big stimulus package and a giant dose of optimism to dig the country out of our transit and infrastructure challenges. So says a new report from the University of Kansas Transportation Research Institute released last week. "Humankind confronts interrelated crises of energy and transportation in a rapidly changing world where we must deal with spiking petroleum prices, decaying bridges, growing congestion in all modes, an aging and inattentive driver po

  January 19, 2009

• Best Place to Get Spacey

  October 9, 2003

• Star Stuck

  May 27, 2004

• Star runs stupid and horrible climate column

  The Kansas City Star reprinted a George F. Will column about climate change roundly derided as a pile of stink-poo upon its publication.Will's column first appeared in The Washington Post on February 15. The bow-tied conservative took aim at the "eco-pessimism" surrounding the "hypothetical" calamity of climate change. Will concluded his column by stating that "there has been no recorded global warming for more than a decade," according to the U.N. World Meteorological Organization.Within hours,

  February 26, 2009

• Bear Attack

  May 26, 2005

• Lt. Gov Mark Parkinson's comfy solution to global warming

  Kansas Lt. Governor Mark ParkinsonWhen Governor Kathleen Sebelius tapped Lieutenant Governor Mark Parkinson to co-chair the Kansas Energy Council in 2007, it signaled her attention to pressing issues like renewable power and global warming. Now, with Sebelius heading to Washington after standing defiantly against the construction of new coal-fired power plants, many environmentalists in the Sunflower State are hoping Parkinson will step into his predecessors eco-friendly shoes. So when Parkins

  April 1, 2009

• Two opposable Thumbs Up

  April 9, 2009

• Party Like You're 200 Years Old

  February 12, 2009

• Cosmology Theater at Linda Hall Library

  January 8, 2009

• Brandon Brown and Judith Roitman

  September 11, 2008

• The Messier Sky

  August 28, 2008

• Knowledge of Power

  June 19, 2008

• The Show Before Time

  May 29, 2008

• Missouri biologist Frederick vom Saal and his team exposed the dangers of bisphenol A — and earned the wrath of the plastic industry.

  April 24, 2008

• Environmental Economics

  March 20, 2008

• Sure, global warming has skeptics. But how many teach science at Mizzou?

  March 20, 2008

• Across the Universe

  September 27, 2007

• By the Numbers: the Kansas Speedway

  Here’s something to choke on while you cheer on your favorite driver.

  September 27, 2007

• Spew You

  Rocky Mountain high ... prices

  September 13, 2007

• Her Dirty Secret

  Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius preaches green, but her heart seems as black as coal.

  August 9, 2007

• So Spacious

  February 15, 2007

• Dark Matter

  June 14, 2007

• Big Balls in Cowtown

  Little wonder cowboys are a dying breed.

  October 21, 2004

• Bumpkins on Parade

  March 8, 2007

• As the World Burns

  August 10, 2006

• Mike Brown's Body

  August 11, 2005

• Your OFFICIAL program to the Scopes II Kansas Monkey Trial

  This week’s debate over evolution is Kansas’ trial of the century!

  May 5, 2005

• Big Matt Attack

  Anti-cloning crusader Matt Bartle makes some very powerful Republicans squirm.

  March 10, 2005

• Space Case

  Attention, aliens: Please return our science-fiction writer.

  November 25, 2004

• The Big Bang

  Keith Ashman makes a lot of noise in the band The Hefners, but he can also tell you the fate of the universe.

  December 11, 2003

• Weird Science

  At the Stowers Institute, insect genetics has the potential for relieving human suffering – or increasing it.

  November 6, 2003

• Black Hole Fun

  Amateur astronomers leave town to get in touch with their dark sides.

  March 27, 2003

• Conundrum

  At the same time hundreds of dead gray whales were washing up on beaches, their birthrate was plunging. Theories around, but little hard data has been gathered to solve this environmental puzzle.

  December 20, 2001

• Bacon Beacon

  Jellyfish take a shine to the other white meat.

  October 25, 2001

• Earth to Rocket Science

  The first African-American female astronaut hangs up her spacesuit to change things on earth.

  August 23, 2001

• Hot Enough for Ya?

  Forget warming. Two Kansans are sweating global cooling.

  August 16, 2001

• A 'What is science?' debate at Science City

  Area teachers say Science City has not fulfilled their expectations because it lacks educational content. Science City counters that the facility differs from other science centers.

  May 18, 2000

• No religion, no job? Humanist professor files EEOC complaint against KU Med on grounds of religious discrimination

  A KU Medical School professor faces dismissal -- he says because of his religious beliefs: free thought and academic freedom.

  May 11, 2000

• Point/counterpoint: Is Miriam Pepper paying any attention?

  The Washington Post continues to face criticism of its handling of a George Will column about climate change.Will's column, which appeared in The Kansas City Star, was roundly criticized for distorting climate science. The column was so bad, Will's colleagues have made attempts to point out its flaws. Will stands by the column, as does his boss, Fred Hiatt, editor of The Washington Post editorial page, who was asked about the piece in a recent online chat.I blogged about the Star's decision to r

  May 1, 2009

• Free Planetarium Shows

  February 7, 2008

• Incoming: Nebula at the Jackpot, August 11

  We posted that Tee Pee Records sampler earlier this week, and no sooner does that go up than we discover that Tee Pee band Nebula is coming to town. With a penchant for Fuzz-wah pedals, wild drums and debauchery, Nebula plays feedback-heavy, guitar-driven psychedelic rock in the tradition of The Stooges, MC5, Jimi Hendrix, and Cream-- laced with the spaced out sounds and dischord of Spaceman 3 and The Velvet Underground. Yeah, that's about right. Nebula was formed by Fu Manchu frontman Eddi

  July 1, 2009

• Dr. Steven Hawley Presents Galileo, Apollo, and Beyond

  July 2, 2009

• KC Chamber's green initiative gets a national nod

  ​When the U.S. Chamber of Commerce came out against federal legislation aimed at slowing global warming, Apple kicked its membership and Nike resigned its position on the board. But Partners for Livable Communities, a national smart growth and sustainable development advocacy group, suggested this week that local chambers aren't nearly so backwards when it comes to protecting the climate. A new report from the Washington, D.C., based group argues: There is a powerful -- and perhaps unexpect

  November 5, 2009

• Gladstone Republican thinks climate science is 'fraudulent'

  Representative Jerry Nolte​In these first few weeks of the session, legislators in Jefferson City have been awfully distracted by Washington, D.C. This morning, Sen. Bill Stouffer, a Republican from Saline County (and candidate for Congress), held a press conference to rail against gays in the military. As early as December, two lawmakers from St. Louis introduced the so-called "Health Care Freedom Act" to exempt Missourians from the shackles of still-hypothetical federal health insurance re

  February 2, 2010