One of the 20th century’s most famous, influential, and successful physicists is lauded the world over. But Feynman is no hero to me.
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The Green New Deal is an ambitious attempt to fight climate change, but is it destined to hit the political skids?
It turns out Winston Churchill wrote an essay of predictions titled ‘Fifty Years Hence’—and while he was off on the timing, some are finally coming true.
A new study reveals the positive effect being vegetarian can have on the production of greenhouse gases.
The environmental legacy of this generally disgraced President is second to none.
“The extasy [sic] of abstract beauty,” artist Richard Pousette-Dart scrawled in 1981 in a notebook on a page across from a Georges Braque-looking abstract pencil drawing. Although included in Nina Leen’s iconic 1951 Life magazine photo “The Irascibles” that featured Abstract Expressionist heavyweights Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman, Pousette-Dart has always stood on the edges, as he does in the photo, of full identification with that group.
In a guest post today, Ashley Brosius a graduate student in my “Science, Environment, and the Media” course this semester discusses the need for greater focus on adaptation policy related […]
An eighteen year-old Maryland girl has retained the body and mind of a toddler; she apparently is not aging. Scientists hope to uncover the child’s secret.
Over at George Mason’s Center for Climate Change Communication, they are hosting a poll asking readers to vote for the 2008 Climate Change Communicator of the Year. Among the choices […]
A top military adviser on the newly released war thriller “Green Zone” has written an editorial slamming the film’s assertion that a massive conspiracy led us into the Iraq war.
Today kicks off the 2009 Green Jobs Conference in Washington, DC, hosted by the Blue Green Alliance, a coalition of labor groups such as SEIU and the United Steel Workers […]
GPS holds the key, but astronomers can’t do it without help. Since 2019, the night sky — as seen by both human eyes and the telescopes we use to enhance our views of […]
The core of the nearest great galaxy cluster holds a glorious sight unlike any other. “Man must rise above the Earth, to the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only […]
Last time, in the introductory post, I suggested that evidence is more important than outrage. Outrage indicates how outraged individuals want the world to be; evidence tells everyone how the […]
His statue has stood outside the York Art Gallery for a century now, but most passersby don’t know the name of William Etty or the works that once made him […]
In this preview from “The Saucerian,” author Gabriel McKee explains how the combination of fantastical stories and obscure bureaucracy launched the “space age of the imagination.”
Science writer Matt Ridley joins us to discuss how “Darwin’s strangest idea” makes us all a bit feather-brained (in a good way).
Dark matter doesn’t absorb or emit light, but it gravitates. Instead of something exotic and novel, could it just be dark, normal matter?
Many beloved fantasy adventures take place in worlds that bear a striking resemblance to our own.
“We are not our grandparents. It’s time to start thinking differently,” journalist Annie Jacobsen told Big Think.
While the concept stretches back centuries, it has garnered significant attention in recent decades.
The evidence is far less clear than popular media might lead you to believe.
ATD 2024 challenged us to make moments of recovery part of our daily practice. Here’s how each keynote speaker advised finding that balance.
The mutual distance between well-separated galaxies increases with time as the Universe expands. What else expands, and what doesn’t?
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
Various environmental phenomena can play tricks on our brain.
Serving as the inspiration for the modern horror classic “The Blair Witch Project,” what does our fascination with this unsolvable mystery tell us about our modern psyche?
When you turn a map of East Asia upside down, Beijing’s geographic constraints and regional ambitions become much clearer.
Gods and angels have been replaced with hi-tech extraterrestrials.
“The Man in the High Castle” may be the most beloved alternate history book, but it is not the most historically accurate.