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Ion Science Introduces Personal PID Monitor
2014-05-22 17:14:00| Offshore Technology
Leading UK manufacturer of technologically advanced gas detection equipment Ion Science has introduced Cub, the world's smallest, lightest and most sensitive personal PID monitor for fast and accurate detection of volatile organic and total aromatic
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Green Fatigue: Public Isn't Affected Climate Change Scandals - Or New Science
2014-05-20 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science 2.0: After reaching a high-water mark in 2006, when media talking points were portrayed by journalists as settled science prior to the actual IPCC reports in 2007, people have steadily lost interest in climate change since 2007. There is an upside to that. Scandals like ClimateGate didn't damage public support. The bad thing remains that all of the new evidence for climate change isn't helping either. The public is simply numb in the middle and entrenched on the sides. In order to do more than move...
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Public interest in climate change unshaken by scandal, but unstirred by science
2014-05-20 15:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: The good news for any passionate supporter of climate-change science is that negative media reports seem to have only a passing effect on public opinion, according to Princeton University and University of Oxford researchers. The bad news is that positive stories don't appear to possess much staying power, either. This dynamic suggests that climate scientists should reexamine how to effectively and more regularly engage the public, the researchers write. Measured by how often people worldwide...
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The Top 5 iPad Science Apps
2014-05-19 23:34:47| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
A multitude of science-related educational iPad apps are helping to make science understandable—and even fun. Here are our favorites.
Science Standards Divide a State Built on Coal and Oil
2014-05-19 01:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Sitting in the headquarters of the Wyoming Liberty Group, Susan Gore, founder of the conservative think tank, said new national science standards for schools were a form of "coercion," adding, "I don't think government should have anything to do with education." Ms. Gore, a daughter of the founder of the company that makes Gore-Tex waterproof fabric, was speaking here weeks after the Republican-controlled Legislature made Wyoming, where coal and oil are king, the first state to reject the standards,...
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