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The last of Etna Week here on Eruptions has guest blogger Boris Behncke talking about the volcanic hazards posed by Mt. Etna.

A Nature Unleashed blogger muses on a recent act of so-called “eco-terrorism” which he says “hit the wrong target” after activists committed arson on allegedly non-eco homes.

Growing up, Joe Randazzo wanted to be Bill Murray and to raise a family. One of those dreams came true.

The other day my Triscuits came with a package of basil seeds glued into the box. According to the instructions, these could be used to start my very own “home […]

Why does sustainable transit seem like such a far-off dream? Ostensibly obstructed by years of costly R&D, unprecedented political and technological breakthrough, and often some sort of sci-fi revolution, the […]

The U.K. is putting up $2 million to fund paid theater internships for young adults in order to develop the country’s cultural ambitions.

Researchers have created solar panels tiny as glitter specks which could be placed anywhere to power the future.

The second part of Eruptions readers’ recollections of the historic May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Physicist Melissa Franklin would love to have a dream dinner with Samuel Beckett or Richard Feynman, but she’s afraid she’d get nervous and make a fool of herself.

It looks like Paul Volcker’s pleas are finally being heard in the Obama Administration. Volcker, a past Fed Chairman, has been advocating for a tighter rein on financial institutions since […]

There have been myriad memorable speeches, and memorable lines, from our current President, but perhaps today’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech will be remembered as his finest. Its lyricism was notable, […]

There is a legal vacuum when it comes to robot interaction with humans so ethicist and scientists weigh in as robotics technology speeds up.

The author and illustrator gets “infected” by his parents’ worries, but once he does fall asleep, finds that “dreams become good metaphors.”

For those of us who didn’t live in the time that the moral giant Martin Luther King, Jr., walked the earth, we have only the pictures—the young, fiery preacher, the […]

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada has had all of political America talking about an issue that used to be confined mostly to the African American community — whether or not […]

Building on the studies of Joseph-Louis Lagrange, a picture of coherent structures in fluids is emerging using advanced technologies.

John Bruton explains why he would like to shake Mikhail Gorbachev’s hand.

It only took me a few minutes, after I tuned into the tail end of Obama’s America: 2010 And Beyond on television the other night, to see that we Americans […]

When you live in Atlanta, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday celebration is not just a one day affair. Here we have King Week activities, galas and marches for days. […]

When I began listening to the recorded testimony of Wall Street banking executives to Congress Wednesday on C-Span, I started to feel like I was sitting in a circle at […]

There is a rough rule of thumb that British political leaders are obliged to contend with, and with mixed feelings. Just as their domestic polls begin to drop, foreigners begin […]

No government has done more to modernize their society by introducing more Western culture than the United Arab Emirates. The emirate of Dubai alone has already introduced the desert to […]

“I will tell you that I think the most important thing I can do for the African-American community is the same thing I can do for the American community, period, […]

Art dealer Arne Glimcher talks about a dream dinner conversation of reductionism and minimalism.

An aged Somalian man has made a 17-year-old his sixth wife after a huge wedding celebration with hundreds of guests.

Journalism only became respectable a few decades ago. Thirty years back, Ivy Leaguers would never dream of entering the field.

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 […]

While most of the more prominent details of the 9/11 attacks have been made bare, the search to find the psychological undertones of these tragic events goes on. But as […]

Gavin Friday’s dream meal would have Oscar Wilde as the guest of honor.

Al-Jazeera English Television celebrated its fourth birthday at the end of last year.  Launched with much fanfare, albeit after an eighteen month delay, the channel that promised to tread where […]