My fondest memory of science class is taking a field trip to see Twister. I was in sixth grade, and my class had just completed a weather unit in time for the release of the movie. Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton starred as storm chasers trying to test out a new intensity measuring instrument unironically […]
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Science lessons from Hollywood flunk out
Published August 20th, 2007 in Bizarre, media and Science. 12 CommentsNews: Energy cover-ups, space hotel, and hot ice
Published August 13th, 2007 in media and Science. 5 CommentsPerhaps you’ve noticed that Earth & Sky has a new science news site. It’s very cool - it lets you scan the headlines of over 20 news sources and podcasts. Now you can be informed with the click of a button!
To get you started, I dug deep into the trenches for the juiciest science […]
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 […]
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, […]