Weekly News Roundup: The Military Hates Whales, Warming to Bloggers

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• Transition! Transition! (Insert music here). So here’s the question of the day: Will Obama create a National Energy Council?

• Just in time for winter: A complete history of the flu through the ages.

• The military fought the whales and won.

• What, “Global Warming Poobah” was already taken? Gore offered (but turned down) job as White House “Climate Czar.”

• We can’t decide if this is heartening (drivers are being safe!) or mortally depressing: California air pollution kills more people per year than car crashes.

• A soldier-blogger gets his moment in the spotlight—though the real question is, what does he think of Trooptube?

November 14th, 2008 Tags: , , , ,
by Melissa Lafsky in Health Care, Science Goes to Washington, Science in Wartime, The 2008 Election | 5 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

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