Declines in outdoor activity continue

File this under “More depressing confirmation of what we already suspected”:
O.R. W. Pergams and P. A. Zaradic. 2008. Evidence for a fundamental and pervasive shift away from nature-based recreation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 10.1073/pnas.0709893105.
In this paper they compare the US, Japan, and Spain across a wide variety of environmental recreation variables. [...]

Science Smackdown

Is it bad that I really enjoy it when silly people get what’s coming to them?
Kevin of The Other 95% delivers an awesome rebuke to someone from the Discovery Institute (Yes, the Creation Loony Haus) who used the BPR3 (Blogging about Peer Reviewed Research) icon without:
A. Following the instructions/rules for use of the icon [...]