Sometimes you think you know what’s going on, but then discover that reality is completely different.
Dr. Richard Mueller, who has been supported by the conservative Koch Brothers on climate change denial, has just announced that he has ceased to be a skeptic and now agrees that global warming is real and is caused primarily by human activity. Was it the Greenland melt (pictured on this story) that finally changed his mind?
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The silent drone that may be tracking you can stay on the job forever. It’s like a permanent closed circuit camera, except it’s not mounted in the local liquor store but it’s following you around. Is there any way to fight back?
The electric version of Lockheed Martin’s Stalker has a battery that usually lasts just two hours, but in a recent test, a laser power system wirelessly recharged a drone battery in midair for 24 times as long.
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You may think you’ve read everything that Whitley Strieber has written, but you HAVEN’T, because his beautiful novel The Secret of Orenda, a thriller about a lost Indian tribe that remembers the secrets of the past, has never been published–until NOW.
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Do you dread tomorrow? There are lots of things we can ingest can to cheer us up, and one of these is vitamin D. New research shows that the link between low levels of vitamin D (which we get mainly from sunlight) and depression is established in childhood and that making sure that children have enough vitamin D could help reduce depression in adolescence, when the majority of suicides occur.
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