An Excellent Robot Kit: Tenergy Odev Tomo 2-in-1

Tenergy is a company that you know well even if you don’t know them. They make a lot of the replacement batteries for everything. But recently they’ve added a few items to their line of products that reach out in an entirely different direction. Tenergy Odev Tomo 2-in-1 Transformable DIY STEM Education Programmable Robot Kit…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/09/08/an-excellent-robot-kit-tenergy-odev-tomo-2-in-1/

Back to School Science and Culture Stuff

I usually write my annual back to school post earlier than this, but I was distracted by various events. There are three themes here. 1) You are a science teacher and I have some stuff for you. 2) You have a student in a school and you want to support the school’s science teacher. 3)…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/09/07/back-to-school-science-and-culture-stuff/

Top fossil fuel producers caused half of global warming, third of sea level rise

I’ll just put this item from UCS here for your interest: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Study Finds Top Fossil Fuel Producers’ Emissions Responsible for as Much as Half of Global Surface Temperature Increase, Roughly 30 Percent of Global Sea Level Rise Findings Provide New Data to Hold Companies Responsible for Climate Change WASHINGTON (September 7, 2017)—A…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/09/07/top-fossil-fuel-producers-caused-half-of-global-warming-third-of-sea-level-rise/

The Link between Russia and White Supremacy in the White House

It is very rare that I find myself yelling at the TV when Rachel Maddow is on. She is very good at historically contextualized nuanced well informed analyses. But when I watched a segment of last night’s show (on the Internet, I have no cable) I was shocked to see that she missed something really…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/09/06/the-link-between-russia-and-white-supremacy-in-the-white-house/

Erasing history by removing monuments and renaming things

This is a response to “Removing statues of historical figures risks whitewashing history: Science must acknowledge mistakes as it marks its past,” a commentary published in Nature. For the most part, the commentary reads like a caution to not un-name things and not remove monuments in at least some if not many cases, though it…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/09/06/erasing-history-by-removing-monuments-and-renaming-things/

Anti-Science Political Hack Named To Run NASA

First, please take two minutes to watch and listen to this, in order to calibrate: Now, remove all liquid containing vessels from the vicinity, put on your head-desk helmet gear, and watch this: Then, behold the fact that Jim Bridenstine, who has demanded that President Obama apologize for believing that global warming is real and…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/09/02/anti-science-political-hack-named-to-run-nasa/

Upcoming D v R challenges

There has been a trickle of state or federal level races pitting Democrat against Republican, which potentially serve as a barometer for how politics will actually play out on the ground over the next 18 months or so under the Trump Regime. In my view, these races have shown two things. 1) Republicans beat Democrats…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/09/02/upcoming-d-v-r-challenges/