The most recent radio show on the Earth & Sky website today is about “live strandings,” or what happens when large marine mammals get stuck up waterways or on beaches. With the two lost and injured humpback whales still milling around the Sacramento River after two weeks of scientists trying to push them towards the […]
Archive for May, 2007
We want to save the whales, but will they let us?
Published May 29th, 2007 in Oceans and Animals. 7 CommentsWhy is Earth losing its diversity?
Published May 25th, 2007 in Plants, Earth, Animals and Human World. 5 CommentsThis past Tuesday, May 22, was celebrated as the International Day for Biological Diversity (IBD for short) across the world. The IBD is designed to to raise awareness around what the website calls one of the most critical issues facing our planet today.
This year’s IBD focused on biodiversity and climate change. Climate change is blamed […]
Cute or scary? Creatures of the deep ocean
Published May 24th, 2007 in Bizarre, Oceans and Science. 8 CommentsThe New York Times has a review and slideshow of a very interesting, very new, and very beautiful science-related coffee table book. It’s called The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss. The book features 220 color photographs of creatures from thousands of meters below the ocean’s surface, accompanied with essays by deep-sea scientists.
It’s […]
This always happens: A new person will forget your name and then apologize, saying, “You look like a [insert wrong name] to me.” Is this just a polite excuse, or can you actually look like a certain name? A new study says that you may not be who you think you are.
The study asked […]
…If I had seen the Earth Guide in high school. This Webby-nominated, Japanese-designed, interactive media presentation would have saved me from Earth science jadedness developed over a full year of blankly taking notes from transparencies. If the Earth Guide had existed back then, I would have been unexpectedly over-excited to learn the answers to my […]
Sheila Vemmer is a photographer embedded in with the US troops in Iraq. In her blog, Tales from the Sandbox, she writes, “Iraqis may not get more than two hours of electricity a day, but when they get it, they conserve it.”
In an earlier post, Vemmer mentioned that Iraqis only get thirty minutes to […]
You’d have to be living under a coal plant not to notice that the world’s new favorite color is green. It’s stylish to be green, and apparently it’s getting easier and easier to do it.
Hoping to ride the green wave, the Washington Post’s online branch recently launched a new online women’s magazine sweetly called, […]
From the crazy, mixed up world of social psychology:
Radio Open Source has a truly compelling interview with Philip Zimbardo, conductor of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, and author of a new book, The Lucifer Effect.
In the early 1970’s, Zimbardo recruited normal, healthy college students to act as guards and prisoners in a […]
From dystopia to technotopia, we’re always wondering what the future will look like. The blog Paleo-Future shows it just isn’t what it used to be. The future used to be much more fantastic, and frankly, much more fun-looking. For example, here’s a series of postcards from the early 1900’s envisioning the year 2000.
Depicted here […]