Going to the woods is going home. - John Muir

Darwin's Seminal Impact on Biology, Anthropology, Philosophy and Psychology

Seeded on Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:15 AM EST (Cover Image Viewer)

Frdric Bouchard of the Universit de Montral's Department of Philosophy believes Darwinism has profoundly shaken the foundations of philosophy. "In 300 years from now, there is a greater chance that Darwin will be taught in a philosophy class than Immanuel Kant.

evolution, science, darwin

Salazar Lays Down Law

Seeded on Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:11 AM EST (Denver Daily News)

Colorado's old Sen.

bush, energy, interior, obama, offshore-drilling, salazar, dept-of-interior, enerby

Biodiversity Itself Begets a Species Cascade

Seeded on Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:05 AM EST (Michigan State University)

Biodiversity feeds on itself, researchers found, as evolving animals open niches for other new species. Such is the case, says a Michigan State University researcher, with a parasite found to be evolving in sequence with an emerging host insect in western Michigan apple trees.

evolution, environment, science, biodiversity

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Beyond the Science v. Religion Debate, Part VI

Seeded on Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:02 AM EST (discovermagazine.com)

Last week we poked around trying to define the contours of the traditional debate on science and religion.

evolution, science

Evolution Theory, and the Big Thinkers

Seeded on Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:59 AM EST (The Boston Globe)

The seemingly never-ending debate over the validity of Charles Darwin's theories has engaged politicians, scientists, and philosophers with a level of intensity reserved for only a handful of other issues.

evolution, science, darwin, book-review, social-darwinism

Breaking Down the "Energy" Projects in the Stimulus

Seeded on Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:56 AM EST (Fast Company)

Most of the projects in the the President's $900 billion stimulus package are the kind of public works the government has executed for decades: trains, bridges, and so on.

energy, congress, economy, politics, environment, obama, renewable-energy, alternate-energy, stimulus

The Gospel According to Darwin

Seeded on Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:54 AM EST (The Times)

How can you say that evolution is "true"? Isn't that just your opinion, of no more value than anybody else's? Isn't every view entitled to equal "respect"? Maybe so where the issue is one of, say, musical taste or political judgement.

evolution, science, darwin

The Promise and Peril of the 'Clean-Energy Economy'

Seeded on Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:52 AM EST (The L.A. Times)

President Obama's plans to lead America out of recession rest in part on a task bigger than a moon shot and the Manhattan Project put together.

energy, economy, politics, environment, obama, renewable-energy, alternate-energy, stimulus

Darwin's 200th: Religion is No Substitute for Evolutionary Science

Seeded on Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:50 AM EST (Salt Lake Tribune)

Evolution is one of the fundamental unifying concepts of biology and medicine.

evolution, science, darwin

Stimulating Obama's Green Agenda

Seeded on Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:48 AM EST (The National Center for Public Policy Research)

As the House and Senate hash out their differences in the stimulus package and President Obama further bemoans Republicans' "usual political games," he should note that his critics extend far beyond the GOP.

energy, congress, politics, environment, obama, stimulus

Why Evolution Is True

Seeded on Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:47 AM EST (The San Francisco Chronicle)

Jerry A.

evolution, science, book-review

Federal Action on Renewable Energy 'Urgently Needed'

Seeded on Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:44 AM EST (Bergen Record)

The head of New Jersey's largest utility urged Congress on Tuesday to require electric companies nationwide to generate more power from wind, solar and other renewable sources.

congress, politics, environment, obama, renewable-energy, alternate-energy

Evolution Revolution: Pace is Speeding Up

Seeded on Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:41 AM EST (The Seattle Times)

Until recently, conventional wisdom held that humans had mastered their environment so thoroughly that the imperative to evolve had in many ways diminished. That turned out to be wrong.

evolution, science, darwin, human-evolution

Technology's Fingerprints on the Stimulus Package

Seeded on Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:37 AM EST (The New York Times)

The influence of technology leaders in shaping President Obama's bill is palpable: the stimulus bill contains big provisions for technology projects.

economy, politics, obama, stimulus

As Electric Cars Gain Currency, Oregon Charges Ahead

Seeded on Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:31 AM EST (Christian Science Monitor)

Last November, Oregon became the first state to develop standards for a statewide infrastructure of electric-car plug-in stations in terms of performance, safety, and voltage.

technology, oregon, environment, automobile, alternate-energy, electric-car

Darwin's theory of evolution is God's tool for creation, says scholar

Seeded on Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:27 PM EST (AsiaNews)

An international conference on evolution is announced. It will examine the British naturalist's theory from a historical and theological perspective as well.

evolution, religion, darwin

Six Sites That Are the Galapagos For Modern Darwins

Seeded on Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:25 PM EST (discovermagazine.com)

The once-isolated islands of the Galápagos gave Charles Darwin insights into the dynamics of evolution that changed forever the way we think about the world.

evolution, science, darwin, biodiversity

Evolution 2.0: From Darwin to dot-com

Seeded on Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:23 PM EST (National Post)

For scientists and others of the Darwinian persuasion, the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth has taken on the character of a saint's day. Books, exhibitions, lectures and broadcasts have prepared the way: On Thursday we commemorate the birth on Feb.

evolution, science, darwin

Grizzly advocates see policy shifting

Seeded on Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:21 PM EST (Billings Gazette)

Advocates of returning grizzly bears to the Bitterroot and Cascade mountain ranges have been heartened by the shift in the political climate in Washington, D.C.

bush, politics, nature, environment, wildlife, obama, endangered-species, grizzly-bear

Two Ways to Profit From the Obama Administration's Energy Dilemma

Seeded on Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:35 AM EST (Money Morning)

There's an epic confrontation brewing inside the new administration of U.S. President Barack Obama. And it has nothing to do with the controversial economic stimulus package, or the new banking-bailout blueprint that U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F.

energy, politics, environment, obama, petroleum, investing, renewable-energy

Oxford Junior Dictionary dropping 'nature' words

Seeded on Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:20 AM EST (Christian Science Monitor)

Gone from the 10,000 word lexicon aimed at 7-year-olds are: "magpie," "vine," "beaver," and "canary." In are: "mp3 player," "voicemail," "blog," and "chatroom."

nature, science

What would Thoreau do?

Seeded on Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:01 AM EST (Telluride Daily Planet )

When was the last time one beheld a sweeping sea of a forest or a crooked-teeth mountain range and regretted its protection?

congress, politics, environment, public-lands

408 mammal species discovered since 1993

Seeded on Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:57 AM EST (Mongabay.com)

The discovery of 408 species of mammals — the planet's best-known group of animals — since 1993 demonstrates our poor understanding of global biodiversity, argue scientists writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

nature, environment, science, biodiversity, mammals

Climate Change Affecting Mountains Most [Glacier National Park]

Seeded on Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:54 AM EST (Great Falls Tribune)

The swift meltdown of the glaciers in Glacier National Park has led scientists to a surprising realization: Mountains are more susceptible to global warming than the lowlands around them.

global-warming, nature, environment, science, climate-change, montana, glaciers