Why SOPA is bad

So I wanted to get another non-video post up before I posted more videos but this video is too important. I know I normally don't post about political issues but SOPA and PIPA will kill the internet as we know it and will make blogs almost impossible to exist so please watch and do what you can to make sure these bills not only die buy don't come back, although they probably will.

The Future According to the Internet

The Internet is funny, thank you xkcd for putting it all together.

More Climate Change Memes Refuted

Potholer54 (for other posts discussing him and his other channel Potholer54debunks see here, here, here, here, here, and here) has done a good job in his video series on climate change and has now taken to refuting the many internet memes that seem to be continually popping up out there. In this video he takes on the idea that the BP oil spill is stopping the Gulf Stream and the idea that snow was going to stop in the UK due to climate change.

What happened to the Science?

I have always been a fan of CNN.com it is a good quick place to get your news. They also are a more neutral site than most other news sites. Now as you may have guessed by reading this blog I tend to read a lot of science articles to keep up to date on science outside of my specific field. This is actually part of why I started reading CNN.com.

Way back in 2004/2005 when I first started my undergraduate education cnn.com had a section of their website that was all about science and technology. A few years ago they changed the tab to just say Tech but when you clicked there you could still typically find science articles under their own heading within that tab. This was fine with me while I like science to get its recognition this at least allowed the science articles to be found and navigated through.

Well within the last few weeks something happened again. The Tech tab now just navigates to articles about technology with science artiles no longer getting billing. Don't believe me take a look at these screen shots from yesterday (click on the images to better see them):

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I understand that technology sells and that maybe what draws most people to that section but they should still include the science articles at least under some listing on that page. The only science article on that page at all was this video of Bill Nye talking about the oil spill clean-up.

There is always the possiblity that I am missing something but I did spend a good bit of time looking over the website to see if I could find a science section but with no luck. Do I think CNN will stop covering science related news? No, but I think it will get harder to find the older articles than it used to be. Will I stop going to CNN.com? No, as I have shown before a lot of the other news websites are not much better when it comes to science. All that I want is for CNN.com to make finding their science related articles a little bit easier and not burying them somewhere deep within their website, especially right now.

Your WTF moment for today

So I actually came across this last night while cruising conservapedia but I was tired and didn't feel like commenting on it this this morning:

The average public school student spends more than "104 hours and 24 minutes per month watching television." [18] While public school students are boosting the advertising revenue for The Daily Show, homeschoolers are learning!

OK so that might seem legit and all but I want you to go to the link don't worry I'll wait........
So you done? Alright did you what I am trying to point out? No where in the article did it say that home schooled teens are less likely to watch TV or do anything else. Yes that's right conservapedia drew their own conclusions, ones which could be completely right and ones which could be completely wrong. I don't know so I am not going to draw any but I just figured I would point this out so we could have a nice WTF moment.