You may have noticed over the past few months….the plethora of political debates, myriad of formats (sitting down, standing up, standing in reverse order, blatantly partisan liberal moderator, blatantly partisan conservative commentator). One thing I’ve noticed, the topics are always the same. Not that these are important issues, but how many times do we need to hear the same thing?
A grassroots movement has developed in order to have the candidates debate scientific issues. The folks over at Science Debate 2008 have created a tremendous movement, now with the support of …

My friend David just wrote a general story on science cafes for WIRED magazine. The piece outlines the science cafe movement, highlighting a few from around the country. However, our little science cafe takes the cake…the picture from the DtaS event on climate change. If you were at the event, you might be (more) famous now!
Check out the story on WIRED: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/12/science_cafe
Digg the article or post a comment…it’s a quick way to help publicize Down to a Science!

A very popular methodology for carbon reduction is forcing more into the ocean. Many scientists support the testing of algal bloom growth in the oceans. Other private companies are researching iron fertilization, a process used to promote plankton growth in the ocean. Yet other groups even look toward direct deep sea carbon injection, a process where CO2 is captured and then pushed (generally via big ass tube) into deep ocean or even ocean floor.
Rather than explore each individual idea in this post, I’ll address the overall movement.
According to estimates, …