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Geologists drive golden spike toward Anthropocene's base

September 18 2012, 4:23am | Comments
Bookmark In 1977, NASA sent 115 images – the so-called ‘Golden Record’ –…
In 1977, NASA sent 115 images – the so-called ‘Golden Record’ – into space on board the Voyager space probe. They also included greetings in 55 different languages and a number…

August 13 2012, 5:47am | Comments
Bookmark "The Virus Planet" -- A Hidden Universe that Would Reach Out 100…
In the invisible, parallel world of Earth, they kill half the bacteria in the ocean every day, and invade a microbe host 10 trillion times a second around the world. There…

August 11 2012, 2:13pm | Comments
Bookmark We must set planetary boundaries wisely
As pressure on resources increases, pollution accumulates and humanity's impact on Earth escalates, global-scale governance of the environment is increasingly necessary. In June, the United Nations' Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio…

May 23 2012, 9:39am | Comments
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God and the New Physics by Paul Davies

March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments
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The Virus Planet

March 9 2012, 3:36am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

February 23 2012, 5:09am | Comments
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The Hobbit who helped us find our origins

February 21 2012, 1:20am | Comments
Bookmark We live in a "more-than-human" universe
The new political ecology is thus emerging from a call for greater humility toward the world and all the life forms it may hold, both literally and figuratively. Rather than contrasting…

February 13 2012, 2:09am | Comments
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Rereading Darwin

January 17 2012, 5:06pm | Comments
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September 18 2011, 4:21am | Comments
Bookmark Traces of humanity
What aliens could learn from the stuff we’ve left in space Even in space, where none of us live, some of what we’ve left is space junk: stuff orbiting the earth…

August 7 2011, 3:32pm | Comments
Bookmark Human influence comes of age
Humanity's profound impact on this planet is hard to deny, but is it big enough to merit its own geological epoch? This is the question facing geoscientists gathered in London this…

May 11 2011, 11:27am | Comments
Bookmark We are as gods and have to get good at it
The shift that has happened in 40 years which mainly has to do with climate change. Forty years ago, I could say in the Whole Earth Catalog, "we are as gods,…

April 28 2011, 3:27am | Comments
Bookmark Darwin Among the Machines (Samuel Butler, 1863)
The views of machinery which we are thus feebly indicating will suggest the solution of one of the greatest and most mysterious questions of the day. We refer to the question:…

March 3 2011, 7:55am | Comments
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March 3 2011, 1:11am | Comments
Bookmark The not so universal tree of life or the place of viruses…
According to this view, ancient viruses, as with the ones today, could only make copies of themselves by succesfully infecting a host. So they become engines of innovation, using every possible…

March 2 2011, 6:32am | Comments
Bookmark Technology Wants to Keep Evolving
Kelly argues that all technologies, from the stone ax to the computer chip, should be seen as a collectivity—the technium, which is “the greater, global, massively interconnected system of technology vibrating…

February 22 2011, 12:03pm | Comments
Bookmark Earth project aims to 'simulate everything'
It could be one of the most ambitious computer projects ever conceived. An international group of scientists is aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth -…

January 8 2011, 7:50am | Comments
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September 4 2010, 12:57pm | Comments
Bookmark If the Earth Stood Still
If the earth stood still, the oceans would gradually migrate toward the poles and cause land in the equatorial region to emerge. This would eventually result in a huge equatorial megacontinent…

August 16 2010, 2:51am | Comments
Bookmark Should This Be the Last Generation?
Have you ever thought about whether to have a child? If so, what factors entered into your decision? Was it whether having children would be good for you, your partner and…

June 10 2010, 2:45am | Comments
Bookmark Theses on Sustainability
[1] THE TERM HAS BECOME so widely used that it is in danger of meaning nothing. It has been applied to all manner of activities in an effort to give those…

May 15 2010, 4:25am | Comments
Bookmark Manual for Civilization
We have confidence in our science-based civilization and think it has tenure. In so doing, I think we fail to distinguish between the life-span of civilizations and that of our species.…

April 7 2010, 6:26am | Comments
Bookmark Think Globally
The most familiar ideas of geometry were inspired by an ancient vision — a vision of the world as flat. From parallel lines that never meet, to the Pythagorean theorem discussed…

March 26 2010, 5:54am | Comments
Wikipedia Coriolis effect In physics, the Coriolis effect is an apparent deflection of moving objects when they are viewed from a rotating reference frame. For example, consider two children on opposite sides of a spinning roundabout (carousel), who are throwing a ball to each other. From…

January 20 2010, 5:57am | Comments
Bookmark Myriahedral projection maps of the world
A new technique for unpeeling the Earth’s skin and displaying it on a flat surface provides a fresh perspective on geography, making it possible to create maps that string out the…

December 23 2009, 2:50am | Comments
Wikipedia Petrichor Petrichor (pronounced /ˈpɛtrɨkər/; from Greek petros "stone" + ichor "the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology") is the name of the scent of rain on dry earth. The term was coined in 1964 by…

October 15 2009, 3:36pm | Comments
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October 13 2009, 11:25pm | Comments
Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments
Bookmark Is There a Better Word for Doom?
Six experts discuss the merits of framing climate change, the language that troubles them, and the inherent bias of any chosen word. In a report to be released the first week…

May 27 2009, 5:19pm | Comments

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