Blue Collar Scientist

There won’t be any blogging today, I don’t think, because in a couple hours I get in the car to drive about an hour to an elementary school where I’m to be a science fair judge. This particular science fair is only one school, but they have such a high participation rate that I’ll be occupied with judging for about six hours - 9 to 3 - and driving to and from for another two, making for a full day’s work, about as much as judging at the Alaska state science fair (which features more judging, and less driving).

Since we’re having a day of downtime here, let me direct you instead to Respectful Insolence, where there is good discussion of yet another study that shows Accupuncture is a placebo.

And for those of you who are astronomers like me, and have a little time on your hands, you might want to head over to this report about CO₂ maps. After you’ve absorbed the topic and the graphics, head over to the world light pollution map, and let me know whether the two maps don’t look highly correlated to you. This is in no way a surprise, since both CO₂ emission and light pollution are anthropogenic - or are the climate change denialists going to suggest that light pollution just streams out of the ground from some obscure but perfectly natural piezoelectric effect or something?

Anyway, I’ll be back to blog tomorrow, delivering the usual dose of news, snark, and analysis. Have a good one.

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