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The Real Science Gap

Peter Sheerin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:15:08 +0000

The Real Science Gap from Miller-McCune Online is a very interesting article that has a different perspective on the so-called scientist shortage. Looks to me a convincing case of supply and demand. Everything old is new again…

Asteroid impact forecast

Peter Sheerin — Mon, 27 Jan 2003 03:57:00 +0000

NASA has a new Web page devoted to predicting the risk of asteroid impacts with the Earth. Unfortunately, the page lists only the risks associated with asteroids we have found—not those that may be on a collision course that we haven’t seen yet.

Democrats want more illegal immigrants

Peter Sheerin — Mon, 19 Nov 2001 00:45:00 +0000

Senators Daschle and Gephardt, and Support Open Borders think that Legalizing Illegal Immigrants is a good idea. When will this nonsense stop? We must protect our borders, and we must not make it OK for those who broke through our borders to stay here. We need to find them, then ship them back to their homelands so that we have the resources to properly integrate legal immigrants into our country, by providing them the freedom that citizens enjoy.

Not so many Earth-crossing asteroids?

Peter Sheerin — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 01:04:00 +0000

CNN.com: Study lowers likelihood of asteroid hit. Sounds like good news, until you find out that the odds are still 1 in 5,000—very high as compared to winning the lotto, for instance.