State of the Future report looks 10 years ahead
The 2008 State of the Future report looks at trends in world affairs ten years down the road, based on data from the past 20 years. The idea of the State of the Future, said Jerome Glenn, Director of the Millennium Project and co-author of the report, is not just to improve education or business, but to improve the whole society. Hear more from Glenn on the State of the Future.
Hazardous space rocks
Greg Easterbrook of the Brookings Institution talks about the need to pay greater attention to the threat of an asteroid impact, and what we could do to prevent a killer asteroid collision.
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Neil Sampson on forests and climate change
Neil Sampson shared the Nobel Prize with the Al Gore and the International Panel on Climate Change in 2008. Simon talked about how climate change will impact both America’s forests and its private landowners in this Clear Voices for Science podcast.
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SCIENCE PODCASTS: SCIENTISTS SPEAK ON ISSUES
- Climate change speeding flux of forest ecosystems
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According to Neil Sampson, an international forestry consultant, forest ecosystems are always in a state of transformation, but climate change might speed up the process.
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Neil Sampson shared the Nobel Prize with the Al Gore and the International Panel on Climate Change in 2008. Simon talked about how climate change will impact both America’s forests and its private landowners in this Clear Voices for Science podcast.
more... - Carbon offsets could be boon to private forests
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The president of a forestry consulting firm talks about the market for carbon offsets – tradeable measures of a forest’s proven capacity to store carbon. Find out how it works.
more... - Moon, Venus, Jupiter on December 1
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December 1, 2008. Have you noticed the two bright objects low in the west after sunset? They’re Venus and Jupiter, and you’ll find them in a beautiful arrangement with the waxing crescent moon in the evening sky.
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November 30, 2008. Here’s a gathering of sky objects you won’t want to miss tonight and tomorrow night shortly after sunset. You’ll find the bright planets Venus and Jupiter near the place the sun went down, with a waxing crescent moon nearby. They’re low in the sky – but beautiful both November 30 and December 1.
more... - Giant lunar telescopes possible with moondust
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NASA astronomer Peter Chen devised a novel recipe using moondust to make mirrors for a future lunar telescope.
more... - How human culture evolved
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Biologist and author Paul Ehrlich talks about the single biggest step forward in all of human history.
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- Deborah Byrd Leaders seek a way forward in Africa's GM wars
- My friends sometimes get mad at me when this subject comes up. Calestous Juma of Harvard passed on a link to a thoughtful editorial […]
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- Lindsay Patterson Beer, fish, and the green economy
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What does fish food made from beer taste like? Pretty neutral, Andy Logan told me. This is second-hand information, Logan didn't eat it himself. His […]
Posted by Lindsay Patterson November 26, 2008 (4)
- Beverly Spicer Icebergs in antarctica of the striped kind -- and more
- One of Earthsky blogs' frequent respondents and commentators is Steve Salmony, who sent me the photo at left along with several other images of amazing […]
Posted by Beverly Spicer November 19, 2008 (2)
- Jeremy Shere Serial Killers, Rejoice
- I recently came across this weird and mildly disturbing headline in the current issues of Science News: "Household Cleaner Makes Blood Removal Simple!"
First, this reminded […]
Posted by Jeremy Shere November 13, 2008 (2)
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