In a study to be published Friday in the journal Science, researchers say the number of marine “dead zones” around the world has doubled about every 10 years since the 1960s. At the same time, the zones along many coastlines have been growing in size and intensity. About 400 coastal areas now have periodically or [...]

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Those of you who watch The Daily Show will already know that John McCain had planned to counter Barack Obama’s big speech in Berlin with his own media circus with an energy speech delivered after flying onto an offshore oil rig, ala President Bush’s famous “Mission Accomplished” speech.
You also know that a Hurricane conspired to [...]

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Enjoy the classics and the replay of the Mythbusters Shark Special 2008 at 9pm EST - check out www.SharkWeek.com for the full schedule.
I’ll be back tomorrow night to cover the last premiere:
MYSTERIES OF THE SHARK COAST
Premieres Thursday, July 31, at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Australia’s northeastern coast is a hotbed for shark activity. Its tropical seas are [...]

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The second 2008 Premiere tonight on Shark Week: “How Not to Become Shark Bait”
Tiger Beach
Oh, this looks good: “Let’s go to Tiger Beach, chum the water, and jump in on surfboards.” Excellent.
They’re starting, very smartly, in a shark cage. The guys had planned to provoke a shark attack when there were just lemon sharks in [...]

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Shark Week continues on the Discovery Channel tonight with two new shows:
DIRTY JOBS: GREENLAND SHARK QUEST
Premieres Tuesday, July 29, at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
DIRTY JOBS’ Mike Rowe, who travels north to the edge of the Arctic Circle in search of the mysterious Greenland shark. These large sharks are slow-moving behemoths, and learning more about them [...]

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SURVIVING SHARKS
Premieres Monday, July 28, at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Survivorman’s Les Stroud travels to the Bahamas and South Africa to test whether the behavior of Caribbean reef sharks and great whites changes depending upon the time of day. While in South Africa, Les and marine biologist Jeremiah Sullivan conduct an analysis of the great white’s bite, [...]

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I’ve been torn ever since this blog started about how much to engage in political discussions on Science Says:
On one hand, I don’t want to alienate anyone because of my personal politics. It seems to me that America is deeply divided right now between two contrarian political philosophies, but environmental problems are everyone’s problems - [...]

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The first new premiere is at 9pm EST on the Discovery Channel, with the 2008 Mythbusters shark special, testing tons of theories about shark attraction and shark attacks.
They’ve been reviewing some of their best material all day, culminating in last year’s Mythbusters: Jaws Special this evening.
As I mentioned a couple of day ago, I’ll be [...]

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From CNN:

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush will announce Monday he is lifting an executive order banning offshore oil drilling, the White House said.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/14/bush.offshore/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

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Science Says will be going on break until July 16th.
Sorry everyone, but I won’t be able to respond to comments while I’m away. In the meantime, I’ll try to post a couple of neat things when I can.
I’ll see you in a week.

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