On September 19, 2008 Professor Stephen Hawking unveiled the Corpus Clock, featuring the Chronophage, a grasshopper that eats time.
Watch a fascinating introduction of this clock by Dr. John C. Taylor of Cambridge University’s Office of External Affairs and Communications.
If you’re like me, you would like to see this clock in real-time, [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Chronophage - the grasshopper that eats time
Published September 24th, 2008 in Clocks, Ideas, Ingenuity, Innovation, Invention, Low tech ideas, Mechanical devices, Time, Timekeepers and Uncategorized. 2 CommentsImagining the future
Published September 21st, 2008 in Change, Cleanup, Climate, Collapse, Earth, Ecosystems, Environment, Evolving planet, Future, Global Warming, Global Warning, Greenhouse Gases, Ideas, Imagine, Innovation, Life, Natural phenomena, Oceans, Population Growth, Save the planet!, Science, Statistics, Sustainability, Toxic wastes, Uncategorized, Urban decay, What are we doing to ourselves? and What can we do?. 1 Comment“In an unprecedented television and internet event, ABC News is asking you to help answer perhaps the most important question of our time - What could our world look like over the next one hundred years if we don’t act now to save our troubled planet?” Watch the trailers, imagine the future, and figure out [...]
Population and exponential growth: dr. albert bartlett
Published September 18th, 2008 in Change, Collapse, Education, Evolving planet, Future, Human World, Population Growth, Science, Statistics, Trends and Uncategorized. 5 CommentsUnderlying every problem we are currently experiencing is unchecked population growth. Dr. Albert Bartlett of the University of Colorado in Boulder gave a very informative lecture several years ago, and it is a classic. Basically, he says the most important thing we are ignoring is the simple mathematical principle of exponential growth. [...]
Consider this: solar power plants
Published September 14th, 2008 in Change, Cleanup, Climate, Earth, Electricity, Energy, Evolving planet, Future, Ideas, Images, Innovation, Invention, Low tech ideas, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Technology, Trends, Uncategorized and What can we do?. 2 CommentsConsider this: wind farms
Published September 14th, 2008 in Cleanup, Climate, Earth, Energy, Environment, Evolving planet, Future, Ideas, Images, Invention, Sustainability, Technology, Trends, Uncategorized, What can we do? and Wind farms. 0 CommentsHow to read produce labels
Published September 12th, 2008 in Agriculture, Food, Food labeling, GMO foods, PLU codes, Uncategorized and groceries. 2 CommentsThanks to the miracle of proliferating information on the Internet, I learned through a casual email how to read a produce label. Here’s something that has flown under my radar in the past even though I’ve been aware for a long time of existing confusion about produce labels. It would be remiss [...]