{"id":27746,"date":"2015-05-13T12:41:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T10:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocasapiens-dweb.blogautore.repubblica.it\/?p=27746"},"modified":"2021-10-17T16:20:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T14:20:25","slug":"big-cowshit-vs-citizen-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/13\/big-cowshit-vs-citizen-science\/","title":{"rendered":""Big Cowshit" vs Citizen science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Idaho e Utah hanno leggi che vietano di divulgare senza autorizzazione i risultati di un monitoraggio ambientale, ma in marzo il governo repubblicano del Wyoming (“the cowboy state<\/a>“, con 1,3 milioni di bovini e 580 mila abitanti) ne ha approvata una\u00a0pi\u00f9 efficac<\/a>e. Da Slate\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Wyoming is the first state to enact a law so expansive that it criminalizes taking a picture on public land.<\/em><\/p>\n

The new law is of breathtaking scope. It makes it a crime to \u201ccollect resource data\u201d from any \u201copen land,\u201d meaning any land outside of a city or town, whether it\u2019s federal, state, or privately owned. The statute defines the word collect as any method to \u201cpreserve information in any form,\u201d including taking a \u201cphotograph\u201d so long as the person gathering that information intends to submit it to a federal or state agency. In other words, if you discover an environmental disaster in Wyoming, even one that poses an imminent threat to public health, you\u2019re obliged, according to this law, to keep it to yourself.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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La legge serve a nascondere il fatto che molti ruscelli, laghi e fiumi sono contaminati da liquami bovini e pullulano di E. coli<\/em> e altri batteri – spesso resistenti agli antibiotici di cui gli allevatori abusano. Da\u00a0Wonkette\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And just what will happen to you if you decide to go play Science Narc against Big Cowshit? First offense is a maximum of one year in jail and\/or a fine of up to $1000. Second offenses will net you up to a year in jail and up to a fine of $5,000. And keep in mind, this is not a law against trespassing on private property \u2014 this is a law against dipping a plastic sample cup into a stream on state or federal land, or of taking a photo of cows standing around dispensing cowflop into a waterway, acts which apparently are such a threat to the people of Wyoming that they need to be criminalized.<\/em><\/p>\n

All together now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Violazione dei diritti costituzionali a parte, il Clean Water Act – una legge federale – invita i cittadini a raccogliere dati e a inviarli alle autorit\u00e0. Wonkette ha un’idea<\/p>\n

Maybe the Secretary of the Interior can just post a statement on the department\u2019s website containing the lyrics of \u201cThis Land Is Your Land\u201d and inviting people to collect as much data as they want to on federal land. <\/em><\/p>\n

Dal delizioso lagomorfo, aggiornamenti<\/a> sulle ricerche, sul clima innanzitutto, sgradite ai repubblicani del Congresso che intendono tagliare i finanziamenti, per esempio al DOE, il cui Direttore<\/p>\n

shall not approve new climate science-related initiatives to be carried out through the Office of Science without making a determination that such work is unique and not duplicative of work by other Federal agencies. Not later than 3 months after receiving the assessment required under subsection (c), 23 the Director shall cease those climate science-related initiatives identified in the assessment as overlapping or duplicative, unless the Director justifies that such work is critical to achieving American energy security.<\/em><\/p>\n

La ricerca decisa dai politici come auspicato per l’Italia dal dott. F*****i \u00a0– contento che il suo partito finanzi la FuF all’ENEA e in Sicilia, si presume, visto che vuol far chiudere l’INFN che non la finanzia…<\/p>\n

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Fenotipi stagionali<\/strong><\/p>\n

Su Nature Communications<\/em>, c’\u00e8 una ricerca <\/a>coordinata da John Todd<\/a><\/strong>, un genetista del sistema immunitario all’univ. di Cambridge, su come varia l’espressione di singoli geni non solo durante la giornata – con i ritmi circadiani, quello si sapeva – ma con le stagioni in Africa, Europa e Oceania:<\/p>\n

We observed seasonal differences in expression across a large number of genes in mixed populations of human peripheral white blood cells from geographically and ethnically diverse locations, and, remarkably, seasonal genes displayed opposing patterns in the Southern and Northern hemispheres. Fewer seasonal genes were identified in Icelandic donors, and common seasonal genes had a less similar seasonal pattern in this data set. If a seasonal photoperiodic clock exists in humans, the impact of living at higher latitudes requires further exploration.<\/em><\/p>\n

In attesa di conferme.<\/p>\n

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Nelle news di\u00a0Nature,<\/em> Alison Abbott <\/a>intervista Itzhak Fried,\u00a0il neurochirurgo che vorrebbe capire perch\u00e9 vicini pacifici si trasformino in stragisti: il “problema del male” che poneva The Lancet<\/a> <\/em>nel 1996. Attecchir\u00e0 mai la ricerca sull’E(vil)-Problem nel paese del libero commercio delle armi e della legge che vieta di studiarne gli effetti?<\/p>\n

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Tra il 18 e il 26 maggio, l’assemblea dell’OMS dovrebbe discutere della riforma che tutti ritengono necessaria dopo il ritardo pazzesco con il quale \u00e8 intervenuta per Ebola, scrive Erica Hayden<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Many reformers attending the meeting are worried that even the enormity of the Ebola epidemic will not motivate the WHO membership to adopt reform, and are pessimistic about the effectiveness of such changes if they are approved. Some of the same ideas were proposed \u2014 but never adopted \u2014 after outbreaks of the respiratory syndrome SARS, H5N1 \u2018bird flu\u2019 and H1N1 \u2018swine flu\u2019 in the 2000s.<\/em><\/p>\n

Non ci sono i soldi per una riforma vera secondo me, ma una non costa niente: \u00a0certi paesi potrebbero smettere di nominare un direttore responsabile per l’intera Africa e\/o membri dell’assemblea la cui competenza sta nella parentela con politici locali o nella necessit\u00e0 di un passaporto diplomatico e relativa “valigia” per trasferire tangenti all’estero.<\/p>\n

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L’anno scorso avevo segnalato un convegno internazionale, in Cina, sui modelli di previsione delle frane. Rispetto a quelli climatici, sono ancora molto indietro, soprattutto nei paesi dove non ci sono “serie temporali” lunghe e abbastanza affidabili. Comunque si sta cercando di farne per il post-terremoti in Nepal, scrive Alexandra Witze,<\/p>\n

At least four groups are using government and commercial satellite imagery to map such hazards. The recent quake caused landslides that blocked valleys, including several along the Trisuli River, which runs between Nepal and Tibet. \u201cIt looks to be quite risky there at the moment,\u201d says Nick Rosser, a landslide expert at Durham University, UK. \u201cThis will be the area of biggest impact when the monsoon starts, as rainfall totals there are among some of the highest in the country.\u201d In preparation, a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been surveying landslide sites along roads that lead to Tibet.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Bisognerebbe evacuare la gente anche da certi campi provvisori\u00a0prima del monsone, ma come si fa…\u00a0Niente riapertura<\/a><\/strong> del n. di telefono solidale per ora -gli aggiornamenti di ieri sono su twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Catch 22 n. 1<\/strong>
\nIeri dicevo di un crackpot francese e dei suoi 22 passi per negare l’effetto serra dei gas serra, ospitati di recente da un blog bigoilista americano.\u00a0tamino<\/a><\/strong> abbatte il primo (ripetuto spesso anche dai neghisti italiani) dal quale discendono gli altri:<\/p>\n

1. The Mean Global Temperature has been stable since 1997, despite a continuous increase of the CO2 content of the air: how could one say that the increase of the CO2 content of the air is the cause of the increase of the temperature?
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Seriously? Do you have to lead with something so wrong?<\/em><\/p>\n

Is that what you call \u201cstable since 1997″??<\/em><\/p>\n

\"NASA<\/p>\n

(Catch 22 sembra il titolo giusto per un’antologia passerina.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Idaho e Utah hanno leggi che vietano di divulgare senza autorizzazione i risultati di un monitoraggio ambientale, ma in marzo il governo repubblicano del Wyoming (“the cowboy state“, con 1,3 milioni di bovini e 580 mila abitanti) ne ha approvata una\u00a0pi\u00f9 efficace. Da Slate\u00a0 Wyoming is the first state to enact a law so expansive… Continua a leggere "Big Cowshit" vs Citizen science<\/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":[3,8,10,17,23,25],"tags":[343,1379,1425,2094,2109,3984,4579,4768,4998,7155,7338],"class_list":["post-27746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambiente","category-bufala","category-clima","category-genetica","category-non-profit","category-politica","tag-allevamenti","tag-citizen-science","tag-clean-water-act","tag-e-problem","tag-ebola","tag-liberta-di-ricerca","tag-modelli-geodinamici","tag-nepal","tag-oms","tag-variazioni-dellespressione-genica","tag-wyoming","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43067,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27746\/revisions\/43067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}