Our Planet Today

Saturday January 28th 2012

Environment

Nuclear Piranhas Eat Their Own

We already know that the nuclear industry is quite comfortable colluding with governments to deceive the public or spying on environmental groups so that senior executives are sent to jail or lying to regulators to cover up radioactive leaks that are contaminating groundwater. So, it should come as very little surprise that the nuclear industry has the same ‘flexible’ view on ethics, [...]

Barack Obama hits »

This is the first advertisement from Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. The ad targets “secretive oil [...]

Space

Rethinking SETI’s Targets »

Have you ever given any thought to intergalactic SETI? On the face of it, the idea seems absurd — [...]

Dawn Explores Vesta’s »

The Dawn spacecraft, orbiting Vesta since July of last year, reached its lowest altitude orbit in [...]

A Comet Consumed by the Sun »

Imagine what we could do if we could attain speeds of 640 kilometers per second. That’s the velocity of [...]

Economics

Pigovian taxes save lives »

n January 1, 1991, the federal excise tax on beer doubled, and the tax rates on wine and liquor increased as well. These changes are larger than the [Read More]

Technology

Is this Apple’s »

Looking at Apple’s education announcement and the later statements by McGraw-Hill CEO [...]

Alt.CES: Tablets »

Zigurd Mednieks checks in from CES In trying to find interesting products for makers, [...]

First Intel »

What could possibly be one of the bigger announcements at CES this year Intel and Lenevo [...]

Climate

“Vision Prize”, an online poll »

A group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University is trying to get a better understanding of the views of earth scientists regarding various climate change topics. They have set up an ongoing poll to do this, called Vision Prize. It’s a short (10 question) poll, [Read More]