In today’s Science, the team behind the Phoenix Lander mission published four studies giving an assessment of their data since the lander died on the Martin surface last November. The […]
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Technological change captures attention in every era, exciting dreams (and nightmares) about the future, filling histories and literature with stories about its powerful effects. The newest and most impressive devices […]
John Kerry and Barbara Boxer’s new Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act is being trumpeted into the Senate this week. The act, stronger than the bill passed by the […]
The broken record of diplomacy skips on. Over talks with Iranians in Geneva, negotiators agreed to hold more talks. Hopefully at those talks they can reach some sort of agreement […]
Why It’s OK to Talk About White Prejudice Rather Than Prejudice in General
A blogstorm of concern is simmering in the booming netbook market, and it’s not about keyboard size or battery life. It’s about the potential health hazards of purportedly antimicrobial silver […]
Everything has become so very complicated these days. Complexity, if the leader is to be truly successful and sustainably successful in increasingly amorphous, re-adaptable, uncharted waters, he must understand complexity multidimensionally.
What does over-consumption have to do with poverty? Is the economic divide rooted in Spiritual hunger? Here’s an explanation of why the West consumes at such an immense level, and how we can begin to change things.
Dr. Art Kellermann, professor of emergency medicine and public health and associate dean for health policy at Emory University offers his prescription for heathcare reform, patient “dumping,” the soaring cost […]
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As part of the lead up to the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December, President Obama told the United Nations on Tuesday that the if world does not move […]
The continued downward trend of total sea ice in the Arctic is one of the most obvious bellwethers of climate change, and now it is allowing an even more striking […]
Syria is in the hot seat. You know you’re in trouble when the only person willing to visit is Hugo Chavez. Iraq accuses Syria of not doing enough to prevent […]
Romania just unveiled a new memorial dedicated to the hundreds of thousands of gypsies and Jews killed during the Holocaust. This is no small accomplishment for Romania. The country has […]
The image of a design by the Orlando de Urrutia Architectural Firm in Spain. The hotel is shaped like a drop of water and might sit on a dock extended over the sea as in these drawings.
Each day the Internet feels like a newly published set of encyclopedias. So much new content, only about 16 waking hours to take it in, and really it’s only a […]
They’ve given rise to indie band names and tales of death at sea, but could rogue waves—seemingly random ocean events that exceed 60 feet in height—actually be predictable? Not quite, […]
29yr old Mason, Painter, reader, and lost soul.
Here to find how I ended up here to start with.
What if there was free transportation based on the elimination of BIG OIL?
No country wants to discover it is facing a food shortage, but too often countries find out about shortages after they are too late. Faced with this conundrum, NASA wants […]
It’s a tragic reality that has gone overlooked in some of the world’s poorest regions. A limited medical infrastructure and lack of education ensuring that many of the world’s children […]
While you were soaking up the sun at your Memorial Day barbecue, hopefully you raised a glass to the Mars Phoenix Lander. It was the one-year anniversary of the plucky […]
Salinity has plagued agriculture since humans stopped hunting and gathering and started growing their own crops. Salty soil, coupled with over-irrigation, helped turn the Fertile Crescent into a modern-day desert, and salinity […]
Many years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, off-the-shelf cement equipment is now being used clean up oil in arctic waters.
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In a summer marking the 40th anniversary of the single most historic concert ever, Woodstock has been revered, evolving from a muddy live music happening to a lynchpin for social […]
Warm and Comfortable UGG Boots When heard of winter, cold may come in your mind at once. If you are ready for the coming of winter, you should never be […]
Delos M. Cosgrove, a heart surgeon, told the New York Times he’d stop hiring obese people if he could because being overweight is a “disease.”
The EU is taking a lot of criticism mostly from the U.S.A. and England. If the critics would take a closer look at the accomplishments between science, technology and education they might see a different picture. Often their assumptions forget to include, quality of life, in their equation.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is on its way. After a flawless launch at about 5:30 Eastern Time yesterday, NASA’s nearly $600 million satellite is en route to the moon. The […]
If there’s one thing pretty much everyone can agree on when it comes to legacy infrastructure, it is that, by and large, it doesn’t really work anymore. American interstates have […]