That would make it about ten times older than the oldest accepted examples of cartography
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In addition to its humor, quality drawing, and thoughtfulness, the thing that separated the strip and its maker was the refusal to license and merchandize the work.
A first-of-its-kind study warns that just one massive greenhouse gas emission could be enough to devastate the global economy.
Not just clean, but cheap: Researchers in India say that for less than US$3 per year, a rural family could have at least 10 liters of safe water each day using their device.
Should water be treated as a commodity today when we are faced with many shortages? The flipside of the question is that we are now looking at even the United […]
When both fresh and salty water sources are considered, the US could grow enough algae for up to 25 billion gallons’ worth of biofuel, enough to cover one month of the country’s yearly fuel needs.
Two University of California-Davis graduate students have created a textile that uses microfluidic technology to direct liquid completely away from itself, which could result in extra-sweaty equipment.
The Environmental Defense Fund’s Jamie Workman says that suppressing natural forest fires has resulted in a surplus of trees that deprive humans and animals of water and habitat space. His solution: Get out the chain saw.
“Paranoia’s the garlic in life’s kitchen,” remarks the central character, Maxine Tarnow, of Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel, Bleeding Edge. “You can never have too much.” Pynchon seasons his latest epic […]
Scientists are growing more confident that Jupiter’s moon could harbor life. The problem: Getting through its thick ice crust to the watery ocean beneath.
A victory for common sense, a setback for sex and drugs and rock ‘n roll
“I could erase an entire life,” thinks a pensive Adolf Hitler as he stares into his mirror in one of the many striking images from the career of artist Raymond […]
Each time it’s used, the device communicates with an iPhone app that keeps track and posts the user’s progress to a Twitter account named TweetingCiggy.
The image above is an artist’s impression of what it might look like to live on the exoplanet Gliese 667Cd, one of three super-Earths discovered in the habitable zone of the nearby star Gliese 667C.
Athletes, workout enthusiasts, and everyone who has suffered from the embarrassing armpit “situation”, rejoice. Bioengineers at University of California, Davis have developed a new fabric that works like human skin, […]
Long assumed to be a sterile environment, Lake Vostok may very well host a living ecosystem, according to a new study. If life exists there, it may exist on other planets with similar conditions.
Silicon trunks and titanium oxide branches mimic the process of photosynthesis by converting sunlight into hydrogen and oxygen, both of which can then be used to power fuel cells.
The increasing desertification of Africa, thought to be a product of climate change, creates resource shortages which in turn give rise to armed militas intent on controlling their distribution.
Ron Miller’s illustrations deal with the consequences of man’s actions as well as the kind of destruction that might be in store for our planet long after humans, and all life on Earth, is gone.
We have a responsibility to defend the America that we inherited and to make sure that people calling themselves patriots don’t smash it down.
In Three War Stories, David Mamet explores redemption and forgiveness in the context of conflict. In The Redwing, excerpted here, a 19th Century Secret Service naval officer recounts his own transformations during the course of his service and imprisonment.
At least that’s the claim being made by a new study: The likelihood of a red dwarf star housing a habitable super-Earth increases significantly when cloud behavior is considered.
A plastic pollution survey of the Great Lakes revealed that three of the five contain dangerously high concentrations of “perfectly spherical plastic balls” of the type found in face and body scrubs.
The ability now to create a company is so much more efficient because you don’t have to like guess in advance what you’re going to be able to do with it.
The group displays photos of inappropriate behavior in the hope that doing so will end a longstanding tradition of exploiting freshmen that has led to injuries and deaths.
No matter what industry you’re in, your company can’t survive without technology. From smart phones and tablets to mobile apps and cloud-based technology, there’s a plethora of technological advancements to […]
The original observation was effectively a lack of an observation. The conclusion was dinosaurs.
The self goes all the way out to the tongue sticking out and then back in.
Some states are in particularly bad shape, but it would be dangerous to assume that all is well with public-employee pensions anywhere in America.
Ramez Naam looks at the power of innovation to overcome natural resource and environmental challenges.