We’ve found out the winner of 2010 Pliny for volcanic event of the year yesterday, so now let’s look back at the entire year in volcanic activity. It was a […]
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nn Another day, another development at Chaiten. Military stationed near the volcano helping with evacuations reported “booming noises” and saw incandescent blocks getting hurled from the vent area. This suggests that lava […]
A shiny new report of the week’s volcanic activity, brought to us by the Smithsonian, USGS and the Global Volcanism Program … and of course, Sally Kuhn Sennert. Some highlights […]
The latest Volcanic Activity Report from the Global Volcanism Program including news from Russia, Japan, Chile and Alaska.
The latest news from the Global Volcanism Program, including more information on the eruption in the Marianas, rumblings in Papua New Guinea and lahars triggered by rain in Guatemala.
nn Just a brief note, but today (November 13) is the 23rd anniversary of the disastrous lahar at Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia. Over 23,000 people died when a lahar, started […]
There are some reports of an eruption at Gorely in Kamchatka – but details are scarce.
A veritable treasure trove of volcanic tidbits, including new undersea eruptions discovered, the end of the eruption in the Galapagos, more Aleutian noise, an excellent interactive of Indonesian volcanism and boarding down an active volcanism (a.k.a., thinning the gene pool).
nn If you ever want your research to be picked up by the popular press, you pretty much need to publish in the journal Science. It (along with Nature) are […]
How is it that we’re able to focus on a distant conversation while ignoring the person who is speaking right in front of us? Tony Zador, a neuroscientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, breaks down the brain mechanisms that allow us to have selective auditory attention.
In recent weeks, I’ve weighed in on You Tube as an emerging and important strategic communication tool. (Go here and here.) Now the NY Times adds this to the discussion […]
A recent feature piece in The New York Times on the 25th Paris Biennale, currently at the Grand Palais until September 22nd, made the bold statement that “[f]uture historians may […]
Finally, after months of inaction, the Coast Guard has ordered the emptying of the Drift River Oil Terminal at the base of Redoubt.
The mysterious Saudi Arabian earthquake swarm continues. Eruptions readers in Saudi Arabia have provided some on-the-ground updates, but the source of the seismicity is still unclear. Check back for the latest updates!
All the volcano eruptions, news, gossips, controversies of 2009 … it was quite a year for the study of volcanoes!
With Republicans gaining the majority in the House, closing the gap in the Senate, and controlling the state legislatures and Governor offices in key states such as Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, […]
“The things patients complain about, like excessive noise, may be more than a nuisance. They may actually be bad for their health,” writes Drake Bennett on noise pollution in hospitals.
The “significant” eruption at Karkar reported last week turns out to be a significant phantom – how did the Darwin VAAC get such a large “false positive” for an eruption?
Released just yesterday, Physics of the Future is my most ambitious book to date. Based on interviews with over three hundred of the world’s top scientists, who are already inventing the […]
This summer at The Phillips Collection there’s a different kind of colorblindness going on. White is the “new black,” or at least the color telling the most interesting stories in […]
Some factions within the natural childbirth movement are attempting to popularize the concept of “birth rape.” The idea is that women who are handled roughly, verbally abused, or bullied into […]
“One of the most widely quoted and dissected public intellectuals on the planet is also one of the most inscrutable.” A colleague of Christopher Hitchens on the author’s personal reticence.
Tomorrow at 2:00 PM EST, Big Think will host a live-streamed interview with the Jason Fried, co-founder of 37signals and author of the modern workplace manifesto “Rework.” Fried’s thoughts on […]
The motorcycle gang pulled in to the parking lot in a small town in upstate New York. They put down their glistening kickstands and sauntered into the grocery store, one […]
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker’s research looks at how language exists in our minds, and how it informs the way we create social relationships.
Last week I did an extended Q & A interview with Grist magazine about strategies for connecting climate change to the ongoing health care debate. Below is just one of […]
The people running John McCain’s campaign know what they are doing. By linking their advertising strategy to the news narrative, they continue to successfully counter-punch against an anemic Democratic convention […]
To date, nanotechnology has followed a public trajectory similar to that of plant biotechnology in the United States. Relatively low levels of attention have been paid to the still nascent […]
What is the future of the workplace? Is new technology making the traditional office more efficient or is it making it extinct? Which innovations provide real solutions? These are some […]
Everyone is mesmerized by Apple’s ability to revolutionize the way we think about IT products. With the iPhone, for example, Apple has morphed a mere communication device into a platform […]