Alan Boyle, in his wonderful Cosmic Log, has a great interview with the inimitable S. Alan Stern, lead scientist on the New Horizons space mission to Pluto. That’s Alan on the left, with his baby in the background. Pluto was a planet when New Horizons launched in January 2006, but it officially lost [...]
Archive for June, 2008
I keep seeing and hearing different numbers in the media for global population. I see 6 billion a lot, or 6.5 billion, but according to the US Census Bureau - which creates the US and World POPClocks - or population clocks - the number of us humans now living, rounded up, is 6.7 billion. [...]
At a downtown coffee shop yesterday morning, my companion ran into an old art school buddy who was just locking his bike before snagging a cuppa joe. As they talked, the subject turned to what’s become a favorite of many: the disintegration of the world. You hear lots of people express the thought [...]