Editor's Choice: Five Important U.S. Energy Stories Of 2012. By Stephen Lacey "Editor’s Choice: Five Important U.S.
Energy Stories Of 2012" The presidential and congressional elections dominated the American news cycle in 2012. And although climate change took a backseat during the campaign, energy played a surprisingly prominent role. The news cycle was dominated by energy: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made fossil fuel extraction his number one priority; fossil fuel interests spent hundreds of millions of dollars to promote oil, coal, and gas during the election; and President Obama busily defended his promotion of renewable energy after getting attacked by the fossil fuel lobby. Looking back at 2012, here are some of the most important energy stories of the year: AP Fact Check: In 36 Years Of Data, No Evidence That Drilling Reduces Gasoline Prices In March, the Associated Press analyzed more than 30 years of gas price and domestic drilling data.
This was a particularly important story in 2012. Error-Riddled Matt Ridley Piece Lowballs Climate Change, Discredits Wall Street Journal. World Faces 10°F Warming. By Joe Romm "Error-Riddled Matt Ridley Piece Lowballs Climate Change, Discredits Wall Street Journal.
World Faces 10°F Warming. " Leading Scientists Debunk Ridley Piece, Even Climatologist Cited By Ridley Says He “Is Just Plain Wrong About Future Warming” Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark. By the spring of 1862, a year into the American Civil War, Major General Ulysses S.
Grant had pushed deep into Confederate territory along the Tennessee River. In early April, he was camped at Pittsburg Landing, near Shiloh, Tennessee, waiting for Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell’s army to meet up with him. On the morning of April 6, Confederate troops based out of nearby Corinth, Mississippi, launched a surprise offensive against Grant’s troops, hoping to defeat them before the second army arrived. The Union troops began forcing the Confederates back, and while a counterattack stopped their advance it did not break their line. All told, the fighting at the Battle of Shiloh left more than 16,000 soldiers wounded and more 3,000 dead, and neither federal or Confederate medics were prepared for the carnage.
Technology - Garance Franke-Ruta - Still Confused About the Higgs Boson? Read This. A chance encounter at a July 4 picnic made the latest development in particle physics seem much more comprehensible.
Here's what I learned. So I was at a July 4 picnic on Wednesday where one of the other guests used to be a physics teacher at Stuyvesant High School, and he explained this whole Higgs boson thing to me in a way that made it make about as much sense as it's going to for someone who only took physics in college. 10 Mind-Blowing Discoveries This Week. Photo Credit: Everett Collection/ Shutterstock.com July 5, 2012 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. 10 Most Magnificent Trees in the World. "A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things.
It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down" - Buddha. When Left Is “Right” Motor Fluency Shapes Abstract Concepts + Author Affiliations Daniel Casasanto, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, P.O.
Box 310, 6500 AH, Nijmegen, The Netherlands E-mail: casasanto@alum.mit.edu Abstract. Honeybees May Have Personality. By Olivia Solon, Wired UK Bees have different “personalities”, with some showing a stronger willingness or desire to seek adventure than others, according to a study by entomologists at the University of Illinois.
[partner id="wireduk"]The researchers found that thrill-seeking is not limited to humans and other vertebrates. The brains of honeybees that were more likely than others to seek adventure exhibited distinct patterns of gene activity in molecular pathways known to be associated with thrill-seeking in humans. Big NZ fossil penguin reconstructed. 28 February 2012Last updated at 01:44 The ancient penguins are shown in this artist's impression A large extinct penguin has been reconstructed from fossil remains discovered in New Zealand.
Researchers used bones from two separate examples of the ancient birds, using the skeleton of a modern king penguin as a guide. Hydra Watch What They Eat. Animal Minds. Photograph by Vincent J.
Musi In 1977 Irene Pepperberg, a recent graduate of Harvard University, did something very bold. At a time when animals still were considered automatons, she set out to find what was on another creature’s mind by talking to it. She brought a one-year-old African gray parrot she named Alex into her lab to teach him to reproduce the sounds of the English language. “I thought if he learned to communicate, I could ask him questions about how he sees the world.” Darkness on the Edge of the Universe. Sounds delicious! New study shows link between pitch and flavor. By Brian Alexander, NBC News Contributor Do you think pinot grigio “smells” like a note from a clarinet? Dissolve My Nobel Prize! Fast! (A True Story) Benjamin Arthur for NPR.