Yearly Archives: 2013

Headlines: Study of Amber from Millions of Years Ago Reveals a Very Different Earth Atmosphere

November 20, 2013 - Researchers at the University of Innsbruck reconstructed Earth's atmosphere during the Age of the Dinosaurs and were surprised by the...

Headlines: Waste Heat from London Tube Heats Homes

November 20, 2013 - If you have ever walked across an open grate above a subway during cold months you notice how much heat...

Is There Only One Type of Dark Matter?

November 20, 2013 - Back in September I wrote a blog posting called "Why Dark Matter Matters." In it I described the importance of...

Agriculture Update: Heard of the Sahara Forest Project?

November 19, 2013 - Conceived to turn the desert sands of the Sahara into productive agricultural land, the Sahara Forest Project, a Norwegian-based initiative,...

Should We Be Able to Own a Piece of the Moon or Mars?

November 18, 2013 - In 1967 the United States, United Kingdom and Soviet Union created a charter to define the laws governing sovereignty in...

Biomedicine Update: Progress Shared on Genetic Causes of Birth Defects in Yale University Study

November 16, 2013 - For those who have been reading my blog for sometime you may remember that I have talked about congenital heart...

Space Update: Evidence for Panspermia Found in Tasmanian Crater Site

November 15, 2013 - As a young man I read a significant amount of science fiction. One of my favourite authors was Sir Fred...

Headlines: New Milestone XPrizes Offered in the Competition to Get to the Moon

November 14, 2013 - The Google Lunar XPrize gives the winner $30 million. Thirty teams signed up in 2010 to meet the challenge of...

The Future of Democracy in the 21st Century

November 14, 2013 - Those of us living in democracies on this planet are confronted with the clashing of two realities. The first is...

Energy Update: The Current State of Nuclear Power

November 13, 2013 - Fukushima! Fukushima! That's the current state of the nuclear power industry. Over the last four decades there have been three...

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