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A great roundup of why cell phones probably don’t cause cancer.

I love articles that tell you that we’re going to be OK.

We’re told so often to be afraid … of everything … when in fact only a few things are really truly scary. It confuses [...]

By Reilly Capps

Really? You based an estimate on one guy?

When the IPCC said that the Himalaya glaciers would “very likely” be melted by 2035, it got that from one source, one scientist, who recently told the New York Times that he was “misquoted.”

One source? Come on. Only the laziest journalist would make that mistake.

Scientists have a heavy load [...]

If cap and trade — or any kind of carbon reduction strategy — didn’t get killed by the special election in Massachusetts it got put into ICU. I just can’t see it happening any time soon.

– Reilly Capps

By Reilly Capps

About the meaning of life, YouTube rarely delivers. But this video below is one of the most beautiful and terrifying and enlightening things you will ever see.

This is a 3D map of our universe, correct in terms of location, size and ratio of all its objects, made by the American Museum of Natural [...]

By Reilly Capps

I loved my ex-girlfriend but she was always on me for not recycling. I don’t recycle all the time, I think it’s a bit of a sham, since we’re shipping the stuff over to China now, but she was fanatical about it, and would lose her mind any time I trashed the tin [...]

By Reilly Capps

Here in the first world, think of our smokestacks not as exhaust pipes lazily sighing out drifting smoke, but as cannons.

They blast cannonballs high in the air, one after another, day and night. Course, most of the cannonballs fall harmlessly into the ocean, knocking out a coral reef or two. People aren’t usually hit.

But [...]

To add to my criticisms of Obama’s stimulus package (nearsighted like Mr. Magoo … should be spending money on long-term green projects … the roads are totally decent already) is this AP analysis that says that all the roadwork didn’t even help our unemployment problem. Hopefully the next stimulus package, if there is one, will have more wind [...]

James Hansen says we shouldn’t give up. 

In case anybody tries to tell you that global warming is a new idea that we need to debate for a while, here’s a Frank Capra-produced movie from 1958 showing that scientists had the basics down even then.

By Reilly Capps

Your mom told you you were special.

Your mom was full of it.

There are (probably) other beings like you on other planets — maybe hundreds like you, sitting at their laptops in their underwear reading science blogs that insult their moms.

That’s because planets are more common than we ever thought. NASA just announced that its Kepler telescope discovered [...]