Reality Base » gore http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase A blog about science, politics, and how to let each help the other without compromising them both. Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:00:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Weekly News Roundup: The Military Hates Whales, Warming to Bloggers http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/11/14/weekly-news-roundup-the-military-hates-whales-warming-to-blogs/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/11/14/weekly-news-roundup-the-military-hates-whales-warming-to-blogs/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:46:21 +0000 Melissa Lafsky http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/11/14/weekly-news-roundup-the-military-hates-whales-warming-to-blogs/ • 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?

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