Get this book that I have a chapter in!

Karen Stollznow has edited this book: Would You Believe It?: Mysterious Tales From People You’d Least Expect, and you will find my chapter on page 112. This is a great idea for a book. Suppose Susan Blackmore told you she had an out of body experience? Or that Don Prothero had an alien abduction story…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/02/28/get-this-book-that-i-have-a-chapter-in/

The best video of the Oscar Envelope screw up!

This is much better than the one you’ve already seen.

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/02/27/the-best-video-of-the-oscar-envelope-screw-up/

Resist Protest Event in Minnesota Draws Huge Crowd, Ignored By Press

Last night, I went to an event, apparently organized by an indivisible group, in Plymouth Mass. Plymouth is in Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District, and is represented by Congressman Erik Paulsen. Paulsen took over, years ago, from a “reasonable Republican” that even Democrats in CD03 remember fondly. But Paulsen has quietly and without fanfare served as…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/02/24/resist-protest-event-in-minnesota-draws-huge-crowd-ignored-by-press/

Ellison vs. Perez

Which one are you for? I’ll take either. At first I didn’t want Ellison to leave MN05, but if he does, and he should if he is DNC chair, we have some excellent replacements lined up, and since MN05 is the most left leaning congressional district in the country, we don’t have to worry about…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/02/23/ellison-vs-perez/

Ben Santer on Seth Myers

Via Media Matters of America. Very interesting segment. Santer talks about what is is like to be a rogue scientist in a Donald Trump administration. The words referred to here the twelve words, were part of the 1995 Second Assessment report of the IPCC. That report is regularly updated, and forms the scientific and policy…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/02/23/ben-santer-on-seth-myers/

Earth like exoplanet story telling

As more and more exoplanets (at first) and earth-like exoplanets (eventually) have been discovered, the way thy are described to us has become increasingly sophisticated. Below are embeds of diverse video descriptions that have been very quickly developed and distributed given the freshness of this latest scientific discovery. Note that the practice of very clearly…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/02/23/earth-like-exoplanet-story-telling/

Cannibalism by Bill Schutt

Biologist and author Bill Schutt has a new book out: Cannibalism: A perfectly natural history. He and I talked about cannibalism on Ikonokast: Click here to check it out! It is was a fun interview, and Bill’s book is excellent. See also: You Come From Cannibals Among Cannibals Cannibal, Native, Indigenous On Cannibalism and Jameson…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/02/21/cannibalism-by-bill-schutt/