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In my Room 101, I am this beluga: Watch. HT: Loren Beyerstein.
Lots of pieces of volcano news I've missed reporting over the last week, so I thought I could try to round them all up. Alaska: A 40-meter lava dome/flow was […]
In the last fifty years, a remarkable sea change has taken place in the field of astronomy: Life, once considered unfathomably rare, is now thought likely to exist elsewhere.
The popularity of new Internet-connected electricity meters in people's homes, which indicate when electricity is cheapest to consume, could create dangerous spikes in demand.
New technology for extracting oil from tarry sands could more than double the amount of oil that can be extracted from these abundant deposits while lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
Safety regulations have lagged in the relatively new industry of renewable energy. From solar panels to wind turbines, workers can be put in harms way if precautions aren't taken.
N.A.S.A. is working with the private space exploration company, SpaceX, to plan a mission to Mars that would cost 'millions, not billions'. The mission would search for signs of life.
Chronic disease plagues personal lives and public policy. Sheer numbers only begin to give a glimpse of the associated suffering, cost and scope of the problem. In the United States […]
Stewart Brand’s famous maxim, "Information Wants to be Free,” has been, for more than 25 years, one of the most popular rallying cries of the Digital Age. These words have […]
A love story for the 21st century (cue the violins). Several years ago a very close family friend in Vancouver was searching our family name on the Internet and had […]
A recently published collection of essays by economists -- Consequences of Economic Downturn: Beyond the Usual Economics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) -- tackles that question. The book's editor is Martha Starr, […]
By passing a deal to raise the debt ceiling, Congress averted a crisis that is entirely of the own making. If Congress had failed to reach an agreement, it would have […]
Today Seth Godin blogged: When the truth is just around the corner ... what's your posture? ... When your organization has a chance to see itself as its customers do, […]
Researchers fear that computer acceleration is about to meet its limits. Constantly increasing the number of transistors on chips could require too much power to run economically.
Hackers are usually shadowy figures. So why are Anonymous and LulzSec dancing in the lime light, painting themselves as charismatic outlaws? Are they valiant or just P.R. savvy?
A recent study finds that the technology can help researchers locate people's social security numbers, just from the information on their Facebook profiles and their photo.
A new tool interrupts the 'infinite loops' that cause computer hang-ups, letting users save data and finish tasks before restarting a stalled program.
A new approach to overcoming state-level Internet censorship relies, ironically enough, on a technique that security experts have frequently associated with government surveillance.
What if colonisers and colonised swapped places (and climates)?
The literary essay I’ve enjoyed most this year has been “The Stockholm Syndrome Theory of Long Novels,” published by The Millions back in May. In it, Mark O’Connell argues that […]