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Written by Jeanne Roberts
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Saturday, 07 June 2008 |
Photo: heartlover1717, Creative Commons, Flickr
I’ve been seeing balloons lately, and it’s not a circus or senility, or even the fact that age has me revisiting the delights of my childhood, but rather the potential for balloons (or blimps, or kites) to provide virtually unlimited energy to an increasingly power-hungry world. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 09 June 2008 )
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Written by Alan Geik
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
Photo: litmuse, Creative Commons, Flickr
Since the first Western explorer set foot in the New Worlds, those inhabitants have had to roll the rock up an ever steeper hill. From outright military domination and expropriation of resources for the smelters and factories of the industrialized countries to decades of struggles for national liberation and the realities of dependent one-commodity nations, the losers in these relationships were never difficult to identify. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 08 June 2008 )
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Written by Jeanne Roberts
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Friday, 30 May 2008 |
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I’m going to come out again in favor of nuclear energy, if only because we’re so far behind the curve in getting alternative energy up to speed to replace coal and oil that it’s going to take us decades to catch up. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 08 June 2008 )
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Written by Jeanne Roberts
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Wednesday, 28 May 2008 |
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Here in the upper Midwest temperatures have remained low, and nighttime temperatures are still falling into the frost range, a weather pattern that seems ominously persistent as spring approaches with slowly greening trees, and the absence of sunshine and fallow cornfields. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 01 June 2008 )
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Written by Jeanne Roberts
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Tuesday, 27 May 2008 |
Photo:kables, Creative Commons, Flickr
A Canadian teen, working in his spare time, has discovered bacteria that will biodegrade plastic. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 01 June 2008 )
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