Subject: Sciences

• Kings of Leon to Play Nashville Municipal Auditorium Nov. 19

  August 6, 2008

• A Sin Tax on Meat: The PETA Pigs are Coming to Nashville

  October 3, 2008

• Scientists To Monitor Impact of TVA Kingston Spill on Fish

  Appalachian State University scientists in the fields of biology and chemistry are teaming up with biologists from the Tennessee Aquarium to analyze just how badly the Tennessee Valley Authority has screwed up the ecosystem of the Emory River that runs through Kingston and Harriman. (The Emory River feeds the Clinch and Tennessee rivers, so it affects a lot of us)The professors will examine sediment, water and tissue samples from fish to determine how concentrated the heavy metals in the river a

  January 21, 2009

• Pushing Daisies: Flower Shops in the Red, Just Not on Valentine's Day

  The semantic argument over whether we're in a recession or depression won't soon be settled. To paraphrase Newton's Third Law of Motion: For every Chicken Little, there is an equal and opposite Pollyanna.But on one issue, both sides can agree: If you're in a flower shop on Valentine's Day, it'd take a Class V Pessimist to think of our economic climate as being anything but, well, rosy.Take Emma's Flowers on West End, for example. I went in to pick up my Rote Display of Thoughtfulness around two

  February 16, 2009

• Blackburn Champions Fight Against U.S. Regulation of Cow Farts

  Forgive Congress(man) Marsha Blackburn. She's a little confused again. You see, the Environmental Protection Agency wants to regulate greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change and global warming. Well, Blackburn thinks EPA wants to regulate another kind of gas emission--cow and pig farts to be precise--and, before anyone could set her straight, dammit if she hadn't already launched yet another of her madcap crusades to stop big government in its tracks. Her exploits are chronicled on th

  February 19, 2009

• New Planetarium to Create Surge in ‘Uranus’ Jokes

  Largest countywide increase in history

  July 3, 2008

• Atomic Reaction

  Governor, neighbors collide over latest construction plans

  November 8, 2007

• The Righteousness of Science

  A local writer makes the case for stem cell research

  October 18, 2007

• Love-Hate Mail

  September 6, 2007

• Sing Us a Song, You're the Piano Men

  Big Bang banks on sing-alongs

  May 3, 2007

• An Avian Primer

  A glossary of selected terms from the record (thanks, Internet), paired with some insight into Bird’s lyrical licensing

  April 12, 2007

• Apes of Wrath

  Evolution vs. intelligent design—the battle rages

  April 12, 2007

• Election Day news roundup

  Daughter takes first step

  November 4, 2004

• Have Space Suit, Will Travel

  Nashville’s surprising role in America’s aim for the stars

  March 15, 2007

• Gore Biking to Academy Awards

  Will also shave head to reflect heat back into space

  February 22, 2007

• The Truth Hurts

  Al Gore’s sounding the sirens about global warming—will anyone listen?

  June 22, 2006

• Cars on the Cob

  We should question any gas alternative that threatens to reduce the world’s cornbread supply

  March 9, 2006

• Putting the Pieces Together

  New novel imagines the man who discovered plate tectonics

  June 3, 2004

• Twister!

  Watching for tornadoes in Middle Tennessee

  July 8, 2004

• The Physics of Personal Identity

  Amy Pleasant charts human actions in her drawings and paintings, forming an almost scientific body of observation

  October 9, 2003

• Art and Science

  Two maverick theater companies collaborate for adaptation of unusual novel about Albert Einstein

  April 24, 2003

• Beautiful Loser

  Author Elizabeth Mitchell’s new book isn’t just another horse story

  July 4, 2002

• The Fabricator

  Rainforest Cafe to Adopt Bacterial Theme

  May 23, 2002

• Monkey Business

  A part-time professor taught creationism at the publicly funded Nashville Tech

  January 17, 2002

• News Briefly

  Hamming it up

  November 29, 2001

• A Face In The Crowd

  November 8, 2001

• The Mold Rush

  Don’t believe the hype about scary toxic mold

  November 1, 2001

• Doctoring the Truth

  The potential benefits of cloning are overwhelming, but Bill Frist is more politician than physician

  December 6, 2001

• Terrorism Today

  A 12-part primer on avoiding yesterday’s war

  September 20, 2001

• Looking Through the Scopes

  Three authors present detailed view of legendary Tennessee trial

  August 31, 2000

• Snack attack

  What's happening to junk food?

  March 2, 2000

• God's Dog

  The coyote comes of age in Middle Tennessee

  February 24, 2000

• Big Steps

  Vanderbilt researcher may have unlocked clues to cause of MS

  February 10, 2000

• Time and Again

  Stoppard play connects separate eras with single location, complex ideas

  September 16, 1999

• Matters of Interpretation

  October 22, 1998

• Monkey Business

  July 9, 1998

• Trouble in the Heavens

  June 11, 1998

• Ill Wind

  November 6, 1997

• Entertaining the "Devil's Disciple"

  September 11, 1997

• Phil Valentine: Earth Day Boogeymen Depantsing Nation's Schoolchildren

  You'll never see this guy sweat. That's cuz Phil Valentine knows global warming ain't real.Earth Day is a sham. There, we said it. Maybe some of you think it's cool to celebrate a bunch of dirt and lava and tectonic plates. But last time we checked, false idols were still a smiteworthy offense. And there's nothing "cool" about a slow indoctrination into the neopagan cult that is Wicca. Unless you count the flowing robes. We've got nothing against those. But as we've said before, that's strictl

  April 27, 2009

• Darwin in Malibu at TPAC

  May 7, 2009

• Your Genes Want You to Smoke

  As does advertising sexpot Don Draper.Smoking, in addition to making you cool and sexy, has a tendency to curb the food cravings. Anyone who's ever had Marlboros and coffee for breakfast (or lunch...or dinner) knows this. Anyone who's ever tried to quit knows this, especially when their oral fixation is transferred from sweet mother nicotine to mountains of cake. Now scientists, using science facts and the scientific method, have found that smoking may also enhance the activity of a gene that

  May 15, 2009

• Why Do So Many Nashvillians Hate Al Gore?

  So I'm having lunch yesterday with a friend--intelligent, educated, 30-ish--and I bring up the subject of Al Gore and his Nashville-based Climate Project, which held its North American Summit this week at the Hutton Hotel on West End. "I hate Al Gore," she blurted out, before I'd had a chance to finish the sentence. She's particularly irked because she feels he's just an opportunist trying to cash in on the global warming panic. Oh, and he was rude to her and other workers at a restaurant, all

  May 15, 2009

• Second Saturday at the Sudekum Planetarium

  September 11, 2008

• Kentucky Creation Museum Defies Science, Common Sense

  Did you know Noah's Ark had dinosaurs? They didn't eat everyone and everything onboard 'cause of God!Really? So you're saying dinosaurs were around less than 6,000 years ago, which is the approximate age of the earth? And I suppose carbon dating is backing you up on all this? No? Just a book written by unreliable narrators and filtered through the discriminating lens of the church?I see. This is science, according to the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, just a three-hour drive northeast

  July 1, 2009

• Tea Time: Give Plants a Cuppa Compost

  There's nothing like a stiff cup of Earl Grey to put a spring in your step in the late afternoon, so why shouldn't your eggplant and watermelon enjoy a similar boost? That's the general idea behind compost tea, a potion rich in microbial agents to help refresh the soil, and in turn the plants. When I recently told the Personal Farmer Peter Anderson that some of my crops were flagging, he immediately prescribed a spot of compost tea. (I am, after all, planting directly in the ground rather th

  July 17, 2009

• Alexander Falls Off Fence on Climate Change

  The environmental lobby has long hoped to persuade Lamar Alexander to vote for climate change legislation. Guess they don't know our senator that well. He likes to hike and occasionally sticks up for the great outdoors, but only if it's OK with his big business buddies. The Huffington Post, which is keeping track, now has removed the senator from its list of fence-sitters and into the "nay" column because of his recent comments at the National Press Club: "Our country is at a critical point in

  July 17, 2009

• Rejuvenated by a move to Nashville, author Amanda Little lights the way toward a solution for America's energy addiction

  October 22, 2009

• Ramsey, Wamp Throw Snowballs at Science

  Global warming is a myth and Frosty here is the proof.​Zach Wamp and Ron Ramsey, both hoping to nail down the right wing of the Tennessee Republican Party, went heavy on the zany anti-science talk today in the GOP debate. Apparently, they've both been listening to a little too much Rush Limbaugh in their SUVs as they campaign around the state. Asked their views on cap-and-trade legislation, they proudly joined El Rushbo and the rest of the right-wing media in the wacky notion that climate

  February 18, 2010

• Bob O'Dell - The Star Salesman

  March 4, 2010