I recently heard Richard Dawkins, in a discussion with Neil DeGrass Tyson, say “science is the poetry of reality.” This accords with my own view, that science is essentially spiritual, and that those who are committed to one of the merely anthropomorphic sects miss the vastness, the full enormity of the beauty of existence….
Geography professor Paul Beckwith here reviews an important new journal article by James Hansen. I’ve listened to Beckwith for years on the Ecoshock Radio Podcast, where he usually makes sense of the most abstruse climate concepts and facts. It’s a sign of the times, I suppose, that even academic journal articles may use hyperbole…
Qiusheng Wu, University of Tennessee If you want to track changes in the Amazon rainforest, see the full expanse of a hurricane or figure out where people need help after a disaster, it’s much easier to do with the view from a satellite orbiting a few hundred miles above Earth. Traditionally, access to satellite…
It is yet another attempt by those who believe that only a mega-scaled, technology-intensive approach can be a viable alternative to our current fossil fuel-dependent energy infrastructure. By Brian Tokar Reprinted from Common Dreams under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) In a dramatic scientific and engineering breakthrough, researchers at the Bay Area’s…
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