Hip hop has a wide appeal for music lovers who may want to know about global warming. But honestly, is there a more powerful genre for the message than power metal?
For those who are unfamiliar with power metal, a friend of mine describes it best: “Imagine the music you would want to have playing […]
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What’s up with the maniacal laughter?
Published July 25th, 2007 in humor and Human World. 3 CommentsWhat’s so funny about science?
Not much, it seems. Science is notorious for taking itself seriously, and scientists for being isolated and oblivious to everyday matters such as cheap laughs. This recent article in the Guardian laments the lack of funnies in science:
If science - or any form of scholarship for that matter - […]
Truth be told, it’s not always fun learning about global warming. It’s kind of like eating that one green vegetable you don’t like: If you’re doing it, you’re doing it because you know it’s good for you. Even though it makes you feel kind of bad at the time.
But NPR has unexpectedly done the […]
Emergency video post
Published July 11th, 2007 in humor, global warming, Human World, media and Science. 6 CommentsThis blog is a usually stranger to video posts, but when I stumbled upon this on Grist, I knew it had to be a very special, two-video-post kind of day.
It’s the music video for “CO2″ by a group of Vermont rappers called X-10. What they lack in rapper credibility, they make up for in the […]
Last week, Earth & Sky featured a radio show about carbon offsets. Carbon offsetting is the system of paying companies to invest in projects to neutralize your carbon emissions. Climate scientist Ken Caldeira called carbon offsets “questionable” because there is no concrete way to measure how the offsets you pay for actually affect carbon […]
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 […]