Scientific American summarized five of Donald Trump's "major moves many see as hostile toward science." They are:
— Read the rest• Trump's pick for head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has actively battled its mission
"To lead the EPA, Trump appointed Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general who has long opposed environmental regulations and has questioned the science behind climate change."
The Department of Energy has rebuffed Donald Trump's demand for the names of employees and contractors involved in shaping and executing government climate policy — which was widely viewed as a prelude to a politicized purge, to be carried out by Trump's climate-denying DoE leadership.
The Trump administration will put a fox in every henhouse, from the Goldman Sachs execs who'll run the treasury to the working conditions repeat offender who'll run the Department of Labor to the public school abolitionist who'll run the Department of Education, but when it comes to climate and energy, the Trump administration is pulling out all the stops.
"So I've been drawing sidewalk signs for my friend's bar for almost a year," says IMGURian Ollie Wolff Pruitt aka littlewolff4h.
Megyn Kelly was prepared to argue with a moron when she invited the Satanic Temple's Lucien Greaves on her Fox News program, The Kelly File. It soon dawned on her that Greaves was articulate and intelligent, yet she was unable to deviate from her script and as a result, she ended up looking foolish and had to resort to scolding him that she was lawyer, so her opinion had to be correct. — Read the rest
Bruce Shneier has a great story about some people at California Berkeley who created a fake co-ed named Victoria to chat online with Gabe Pruitt, USC's starting guard.
— Read the restOn Saturday, at the game, when Pruitt was introduced in the starting lineup, the chants began: "Victoria, Victoria."
In my new issue of Lab Notes, research from UC Berkeley's College of Engineering:
* Spare Parts for the Human Body Shop* Trafficking in Roadway Sensors
* Bioengineers Battle Stowaways at Sea
(1) manifesto
(2) photographs
(3) vinyl
(4) sound
(5) sand
(6) matches
(7) tapestry
(8) conceptual
(9) criticism yikes! That link appears to be a ripoff of this website, (Thanks, Philip).
Link Discuss (Thanks, Frank!)
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