{"id":71431,"date":"2019-03-11T23:20:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T05:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=71431"},"modified":"2019-03-11T23:20:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T05:20:12","slug":"la-science-cest-moi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/03\/la-science-cest-moi.html","title":{"rendered":"La science, c’est moi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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On weekends, I\u2019ve taken to searching for fossilized palm fronds in the Himalayas \u2014 as long as I can be back home for church when I\u2019m on to teach Sunday school. \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This solar storm effectively knocked radio and television technology, which were just beginning to gain a foothold in the seventh century BC, back into the Stone Age:<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne of the strongest known solar storms blasted Earth in 660 B.C.: Traces left in ice cores and tree rings allowed researchers to estimate the storm\u2019s power\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Unless you count the pioneer work in telegraphy done by Samuel F. B. Morse, Joseph Henry, and Albert Vail back in the 1830s, broadcasting didn\u2019t really get underway again until the early part of the twentieth century \u2014 and then it culminated, tragically, in Barney & Friends<\/em>, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo<\/em>, O. J. Simpson\u2019s If I Did It<\/em>, and The Apprentice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe \u2018roof of the world\u2019 was raised more recently than once thought: A fossil of an ancient palm tree is helping rewrite the history of the Tibetan Plateau\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Just think. \u00a0We might have had \u201cClub Tib\u201d instead of \u201cClub Med.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cA Popular Benefit of Houseplants Is a Myth: The science is clear: Indoor vegetation doesn\u2019t significantly remove pollutants from the air.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t think, though, that the study looked at the manifold benefits of indoor marijuana farms.<\/p>\n

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\u201cScientists Spot Mysterious Unknown Breed of Killer Whales:\u00a0The Type D whale might be a whole new type of orca. Finding them was hard.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018Type D killer whales could be the largest undescribed animal left on the planet and a clear indication of how little we know about life in our oceans,\u2019 says Bob Pitman, a researcher from NOAA Fisheries\u2019 Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California, in a\u00a0press statement.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It has been suggested, incidentally, that my notes on science are those of a pretender, and that I\u2019m not really a scientist myself at all<\/em>. \u00a0This is wholly untrue.<\/p>\n

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I read nothing about science, and I never depend upon the research of others. \u00a0I don\u2019t learn about the cutting edge of science at second hand. \u00a0The notes I post here are wholly original. \u00a0When I write about a potentially new species of killer whales, it\u2019s because I myself was braving the harsh winds off the coast of Chile near Cape Horn in order to discover them. \u00a0When I mention the finding of a fossilized palm frond on the high Tibetan plateau, I\u2019m the scientist who found it. \u00a0(I spend a great deal of time in and around Tibet, pickaxe at the ready) \u00a0And when I tell you about a seventh-century BC solar storm? \u00a0I was there. \u00a0(In my spare moments, when not in Tibet, I experiment with time travel.)<\/p>\n

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So yes, I\u2019m a scientist. \u00a0In fact, my scientific achievements are huge, and many people are saying that I\u2019m the greatest scientist of all time. \u00a0Probably nobody has ever been more scientific than I am.<\/p>\n

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