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Uncertainty in Climate Predictions

By Dawn Y. Sumner Posted on April 30, 2017 Posted in Broader Perspectives, Science Thoughts

I find Bret Stephens NYT first opinion piece appalling because he conflates uncertainty in human behavior (like voting) with scientific uncertainty in our ability to predict climate change.  Human behavior has no right answer, and uncertainty emerges from innumerable cultural …

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Siphonophores and Multicellularity

By Dawn Y. Sumner Posted on August 31, 2014 Posted in Science Thoughts Tagged with evolution, life, organisms

I just read Wired’s Absurd Creature of the Week post on siphonophores.  They are amazing creatures, composed of colonies of cloned individuals that specialize for different functions.  This is different from animals, which are colonies of specialized cells (plus billions of …

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