Once upon a time there was an evil man who wanted to steal all of the light on planet earth. He wore a crown made of sulfate crystals which attracted rays from the sun. He kept it all locked up in a special room underneath his palace; and for many years the planet went without [...]
Stephen Hawking believes that the existence of extraterrestrial life is a certainty. Furthermore, he believes that humans should be extremely cautious about interacting with it: “To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational…The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like…We only have to look at [...]
Using a remote-controlled submarine, scientists have discovered a volcanic vent which they think is the deepest in the world. Inside it, superheated waters could contain undiscovered marine species and maybe clues to the origin of life on earth. The scientists on board the RRS James Cook found the vent more than three miles beneath the [...]
Mountains of salt are spread on snowy roads in North America every winter, despite the fact that environmentalists have been warning against it for years. Well, studies are piling up, indicating indeed that the cost may be too high. Martin Mittelstaedt reports in the Globe and Mail about a new study of Frenchman’s Bay, a [...]
The British novelist Ian McEwan, inspired by the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks, changed the finished manuscript of his new book about a scientist working on a technology to address global warming. The end of the book is set in summer 2009, and McEwan introduced a new scene, in the last few pages, in [...]
Victims of Hurricane Katrina are moving to sue carbon gas-emitting multinationals for helping fuel global warming and boosting the tragic 2005 storm. The class action suit brought by residents from southern Mississippi, which was ravaged by hurricane-force winds and driving rains during the storm, was first filed just weeks after Katrina hit in August of [...]
February 9, 2010 – 7:49 am
Electricity is something which should be respected, not something to be feared. This is not a recommendation to stick your finger in the socket, that’s common sense. What I mean to say is that there is a new ability out there that could accelerate the mass deployment of electric and plug-in hybrid electric cars, that [...]
February 8, 2010 – 11:44 am
The term “seed bombing” has been used steadily since the 70′s when the guerrilla gardening movement began. Since then, we have been exposed to all sorts of inventive types of seed bombs. The original type was a condom filled with fertilizer, water and wildflower seeds, but most guerrilla gardeners use the all-natural kind made of [...]
February 7, 2010 – 7:19 am
NASA decided to give its Cassini spacecraft mission a 6 ½-year life extension to continue exploring Saturn and its moons. Cassini was launched in 1997 and first arrived at Saturn in 2004 after flying by Earth, Venus and Jupiter. It carried the Huygens probe on board, which it sent to the surface of the moon [...]
January 14, 2010 – 1:43 pm
Haitians piled heaps of lifeless bodies along the streets of their capital Wednesday after a massive earthquake wrecked thousands of structures. Untold numbers were still trapped. The Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation is devastated. The earthquake which came on Tuesday afternoon was a magnitude-7.0. It was the biggest earthquake to happen in the Caribbean in 200 [...]
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