climate
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A Slow Death by the Proper Name…
Since 1954, the World Meteorological Organization has been naming extreme storms after people. But we propose a new naming system. One that names extreme storms caused by climate change, after the policy makers who deny climate change and obstruct climate… Continue reading
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Poverty does bad things to your brain | Futurity
Poverty and the worry that goes with it uses up so much mental energy that the poor have little room in their brains for anything else. As a result, people of limited means are more likely to make mistakes and… Continue reading
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Picturing Doomsday: All the Asteroids that Could Destroy Life on Earth
It’s no surprise that NASA is keeping track of all potentially hazardous objects, or PHOs, that surround our planet. If it’s closer than 4.6 million miles away and larger than about 350 feet in diameter, NASA’s watching it. And if… Continue reading
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Why One Nation Wants To Turn Its Undersea Volcanoes Into A National Park | Popular Science
Back in 2008, researchers discovered a massive hydrothermal vent system in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, between Greenland and Norway. This is basically a group of enormous undersea volcanoes, more than 7,500 feet underwater, shooting out superheated water in 40-foot plumes of… Continue reading
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Climate Change And Violence Linked, Breakthrough Study Finds
Shifts in climate change are strongly linked to human violence around the world, according to a comprehensive new study released Thursday by the University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University. The research, which was published in Science, examined 60 previous… Continue reading
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Let Us Now Sing About the Warmed Earth
On July 25 the journal Nature published an article about the “Economic time bomb” that is slowly being detonated by Arctic warming. Gail Whiteman of Erasmus University in the Netherlands, and Chris Hope and Peter Wadhams of the University of Cambridge suggest—based on… Continue reading
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Spectacular landscapes in HQ | memolition
Earth is a spectacularly beautiful, diverse place: filled to the brim with millions of species of plants and animals, mindblowing features that seem to defy the laws of nature and a numerous number of unique locations. Unfortunately, only a small… Continue reading
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Ft. Collins, Colorado
The buddy-friend-guy and I are on our way to visit our good brother on the Way, Ronnie Pelton, the customer advocacy director at Toddy LLC. We’ll be visiting the Rocky Mountain National Forest, Estes Park, Boulder, etc. But we are… Continue reading
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This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is Gas Land
The Obama Administration has proposed new regulations for hydraulic fracturing on 756 million acres of public and tribal lands. The rules were written by the drilling industry and will be streamlined into effect by a new intergovernmental task force, established… Continue reading
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Mars lost its atmosphere 4bn years ago
A mysterious, catastrophic event tore away the atmosphere of Mars, according to the first detailed analysis of the make-up of the air on the Red Planet. A year after the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, and having travelled a… Continue reading
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Cosmic gas cloud fights supermassive black hole | Science | guardian.co.uk
Supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy has a gas cloud in its gravitational clutches – but the gas cloud isn’t giving up without a fight… The gas cloud was discovered in 2011 and shown to be on… Continue reading
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The Dragonfly: A Giant Winged Vertical Farm for New York City
Modeled after the wings of a dragonfly, this incredible urban farm concept for New York Citys Roosevelt Island intends to ease the problems of food mileage and shortage, and reconnect consumers with producers. Urban farming is a growing trend amongst… Continue reading
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Techno-Conspiracy and Control
A link here to a Big Think blog where Teddy Goff considers the power of technology in the Society of Control. Okay… you caught me! He does not call it the Society of Control. I mean, maybe he knows the… Continue reading
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Civilization’s jungle paths
Cambodia’s vast lost city: world’s greatest pre-industrial site unearthed A ground-breaking archaeological discovery in Cambodia has revealed a colossal 700-year old urban landscape connecting ancient cities and temples to Angkor Wat. via Cambodia’s vast lost city: world’s greatest pre-industrial site… Continue reading
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The ‘Broader Impacts’ of Sequestration on Science
My colleague Bob Frodeman has some suggestions about the interconnection of research & society in post-austerity world. Now that we’ve been driven off the “fiscal cliff,” perhaps we should look around and assess the results. It turns out that sequestration is… Continue reading
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The Unsurprising Rarity of Homo Economicus
“SOVEREIGN in tastes, steely-eyed and point-on in perception of risk, and relentless in maximisation of happiness.” This was Daniel McFadden’s memorable summation, in 2006, of the idea of Everyman held by economists. That this description is unlike any real person… Continue reading
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How does Vandana Shiva do it?
Reading Freire‘s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and other works that are transforming my anarchocynicism, my thoughts keep returning to Vandana Shiva. “[How do I do it?] Well, it’s always a mystery, because you don’t know why you get depleted or recharged.… Continue reading
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Indus civilization food: How scientists are figuring out what curry was like 4,500 years ago. – Slate Magazine
Working with other Indian and American archaeologists, the two applied new methods for pinpointing the elusive remains of spices that don’t show up in flotation tanks. Instead of analyzing dirt from Indus kitchens, they collected cooking pots from the… Continue reading
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