Lots of good stuff in this issue:<\/p>\n
Katharine Hayhoe’s (@KHayhoe) has the lead off editorial that “Facts are not enough<\/a>” – science is necessary, but not sufficient.\u00a0 Engaging with people and coming together rather than being divisive is needed.<\/p>\n In the news – great news about Mars rover’s drill reviewed.\u00a0 Bad news about the ABI instrument on GOES-17 having problems with the cooling system and making the daytime IR observations fail.<\/p>\n The Galaxy Builders<\/a> talks about major improvements in galaxy simulations – cool!\u00a0 And then at a smaller scale, the update on planetary science about “Dunes across the Solar System<\/a>” describes the New Horizon observations that “Pluto joins Earth, Mars, Venus, Titan, and perhaps even the comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerismenko demonstrating that the mobilization and self-organization of granular material into dunes occur throughout the Solar System.”<\/p>\n From the academic world, policy forum looks at graduate education with “Student-centered, modernized graduate STEM education<\/a>” describing “central to the success of this plan will be a readjustment of the incentives that drive so many attitudes and behaviors throughout the graduate education system.”\u00a0 Lots of work remains!<\/p>\n A very sad update on “U.S. budget targets fish and wildlife work” that the cooperative research units (CRUs) are getting removed from the President’s budget request.<\/p>\n “The effect of partisanship and political advertising on close family ties<\/a>” is an interesting look at “politically divided families” and the impact on the length of thanksgiving dinner!<\/p>\n Finally, “Ancient genomes from Iceland reveal the making of a human population<\/a>” confirms what we heard on our recent visit to Iceland – about 1100 years ago, many Scandinavian men went to Ireland and “found” (“borrowed”?) Irish women (princesses?) for their wives and then went to Iceland.\u00a0 Interesting genomic study!<\/p>\n Good stuff!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lots of good stuff in this issue: Katharine Hayhoe’s (@KHayhoe) has the lead off editorial that “Facts are not enough” – science is necessary, but not sufficient.\u00a0 Engaging with people and coming together rather than being divisive is needed. In the news – great news about Mars rover’s drill reviewed.\u00a0 Bad news about the ABI … Continue reading @sciencemag 02018\/06\/01 highlights<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}