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Adam Savage's Plan to Banish Boring Science Education & More: Back-to-School PODCAST
MythBuster and Popular Mechanics contributing editor Adam Savage is pretty fired up over the sad state of our nation's science education programs, which many teenagers feel leave them unprepared for the future.
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| Why Offshore Drilling Can Bridge Gap to U.S. Energy Future: Op-Ed The Democratic and Republican conventions have arrived amidst a litany of calls for government-sponsored energy projects. Despite progress, Popular Mechanics’ editor-in-chief says Americans should be careful what we wish for. (Published in the October 2008 issue)
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| MythBuster Adam Savage: 3 Ways to Fix U.S. Science Education From letting students get their hands dirty to spending more on teachers and supplies, Adam Savage has three humble suggestions to banish boring science. (Published in the September 2008 issue)
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| Inside the Future of Electric Cars, Hydrogen and Next-Gen Biofuels Americans burned through more than 142 billion gallons of gas last year. It's an expensive habit at over $4 (and over 20 pounds of CO2 emissions) a pop. No wonder the market has never looked better for alt fuels. (Published in the September 2008 issue)
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| Top 5 Mad Scientists of All Time Diagnosed on a Sci-Fi Couch In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame, Daniel H. Wilson and Anna C. Long travel back in time to psychoanalyze our favorite frustrated brainiacs from both sci-fi and real life.
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| World Trade Center 7 Report Puts 9/11 Conspiracy Theory to Rest The long-awaited report from the NIST conclusively rebuts the claims put forth by conspiracy theorists that explosives caused the collapse of WTC 7. Fire alone brought down the building, the report concludes.
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| 6 Debunked 9/11 Conspiracy Claims From Today's NIST Report Shyam Sunder, the lead investigator on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report, responded directly to many conspiracy claims this morning at his press conference in NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md.
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| McCain, Obama Promise Plug-in Cars as Detroit Charts a Timetable PM's Geek the Vote series examines the presidential candidates' policies on science and technology. In this installment, experts evaluate the stances of Senators McCain and Obama on America's future electric vehicles.
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| Before 21st Century Fuels, Scientists Scouted Clean-Coal Power In December 1979, coal was the buzzword when PM covered "fuel for the future." Scientists in Germany had developed the Bergius method in 1913 to create a synthetic gasoline from brown coal. (Published in the September 2008 issue)
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| Why Invisible Men Aren't as Close as You Think ... Yet As researchers report that they're one step closer to the technology behind the ever-elusive invisibility cloak, PM's expert futurist takes a ride on the Skeptic Express.
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| Sensor-Laden Super Seals Dive Deep for New Global Warming Data A marine mammal whose diving skills would put an Olympian to shame has become a player in climate-change studies. Sporting sensors on their heads, elephant seals are collecting data that has long eluded scientists.
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