Why Should I Care?

  This has been a common question for me over the last few weeks.  For anyone who knows what I do, they all want to know if somehow weather or climate change is to some degree related to the rash of very strong earthquakes we have seen around the globe.  Quickly I assure them this [...]

Again and again I have reiterated the importance of taking some self responsibility in making sure you are getting to a base truth about stories you are exposed to via your favorite media outlets.  At the same time I know following that advice is not always simple as it sounds given that quite often the [...]

I have never met two people that had precisely the same opinion on everything, have you?  While it might make it a bit easier to get things done if all humans saw things precisely the same way, at the same time it would certainly be boring.  We often face disagreements with a friend, family member [...]

Today’s globally linked world and its new outlets of communication have spawned a whole new relationship between scientists and the general public.  Traditionally, most scientific research went through a vetting process called ‘peer review’ before being published and in turn available for consumption by others.  Even after being published much of this research would go [...]