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You know the cliche, often cited when one has a near-death experinece: “I saw my life flash before my eyes.”
Well, when you skydive from 22.7 miles above the earth, it turns out you have time for 6 minutes of life flashing before your eyes.
I’ve got a lot of living left to do; I’m not sure [...]

Didn’t I see something like this in Goonies? Oh wait, that was slick shoes. Well, I think the concepts are related.

Apparently DARPA is funding research to develop a synthetic “black ice” that can be deployed to keep the enemy from following them, you know, across narrow bridges. Think of it as a very high-tech banana [...]

Whenever I start to feel like the challenge of preventing climate change might just be insurmountable — this happens often as I read reports at work on the scale of carbon reduction needed — it’s a welcome news to hear that some hair-brained scientist/engineer has broken assumed technical barriers by employing a completely novel method.
Well, [...]

As an energy analyst, I often see in my own work the drastic effect of scope on analysis results.
For example, take a simple-sounding question like, “How much energy is required to produce a ton of iron?”
This is a relatively straightforward analysis if the scope of energy usage includes only the iron plant. You count the [...]

Good news for the future of cap and trade — and our climate — from a couple researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) probably won’t cost as much as previously thought, which will keep the overall price of carbon credits lower because the carbon dioxide emitted from coal power [...]

This map is so cool. Maybe National Geographic should change its name to Universal Geographic?

Excerpt:
If all this talk of moon bombing has you curious about space exploration, you’re in luck: National Geographic recently produced this astonishingly elegant map of every space exploration in the last 50 years. Every. Single. One. (If you’re annoyed by that [...]

Not only are ~42 million Americans lacking (health) insurance, but the global climate is uninsured, as well. Thousands of people declare bankruptcy in the U.S. each year because of unaffordable medical expenses, and some of these people even had insurance. In bankruptcy, your debts are erased and you get to start over economically.
Climate bankruptcy would [...]

Apparently more Americans believe in UFOs than oppose a public option for health care insurance. Unfortunately, I think this says as much about the scientific ignorance and conspiracy-theory-craziness of Americans as it does about the state of the health care debate. Wow. Really, America? REALLY?
How about we slip some science education reform into the health [...]

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is denying climate change and opposing the cap and trade bill with “disingenuous attempts to diminish or distort the reality,” according to PG&E Chairman and CEO Peter Darbee. PG&E recently pulled its membership from the Chamber, and now Exelon Corp. has done the same today.
Why is the Chamber so opposed [...]

Vampires are everywhere in pop culture today: books, TV, movies, and teenage girls’ dreams. Long before Robert Pattinson was sending 13 year-old girls into a state of blood lust, where did the mythology of the vampire begin? Perhaps, the myth of the undead blood-sucking beings was born of real-world illnesses. The article below covers a [...]