1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (273+ words) GG has opined about peer review a lot over the years and so was interested to see the latest series of suggestions on how to save peer review in Ars Technica. (just search on “peer review” in the little search…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (421+ words) So driving around Iceland, GG often found unexpected landscapes. Ridgelines that seemed major divides would suddenly end, directions of rivers often seemed implausible. Consider the map of rivers in Iceland. The large fjords on the east coast barely have any…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (132+ words) Sounds like GG’s kind of place. And as he just finished a tour of Iceland, where a number of the native people seem kind of grumpy, some random thoughts about things up near the Arctic Circle. So here is a…...

1+ mon, 10+ hour ago   (129+ words) So a few days ago saw the expiration of the period for commenting on the OMB’s rewrite of rules governing federal grants. The New York Times noted about half a million comments rolled in. So that might just take a…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (107+ words) …to comment on the OMB proposed rules making science a political arm of the government. A lot of useful links and information are in an editorial at Ars Technica. Post subject to change as new information emerges. Tags: politicization of…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (223+ words) GG just received some 2026 proof coins; these serve as a reminder that the only cents we will see will be in sets like these. Discontinuing the cent leaves us no way to pay for things ending in 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Many stores…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (204+ words) A quick parochial examination of the question, how do El Niños affect Boulder’s snowfall? But maybe you want to compare apples to apples–the Climate.us page is precipitation. Well, OK, we have data for total precipitation, too. So let’s…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (165+ words) The Trump Administration has been busy hiding, removing, editing, rewriting and generally castrating climate science funded by the government. So Climate.gov went away, for instance, as did much of the material in it. All that is great news, but…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (264+ words) Keep in mind there is no money in the Congressionally approved 2026 budget for this $1B program. Oh, and grant applications are due in mid-July. Do you think that some folks were told about this program awhile back? Think there is any…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (550+ words) We are all being asked to comment on the OMB’s proposed rule replacing science with an administration mouthpiece. As a reminder, a relatively terse blow-by-blow of the components of the proposed rule are here. And you can have your say…...