2019-03-01
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Night Flights Mean More Global Warming
June 16, 2006Taking that "red eye" overnight flight is more damaging to the environment than daytime air travel because contrails cause more global warming after dark. Winter flights are also harder on the environment than summer flights. And blocks of ice that... continued
A Valentine to Dads
June 16, 2006Anne Strieber wants to remind our readers that while her recent diary SEEMS to be about seeing (or rather, NOT seeing) a movie, if you scroll down, you'll find that it's really a valentine to fathers everywhere, so HAPPY FATHER?S... continued
Wearing Wolf Teeth
June 16, 2006As we've reported here before, modern man isn't the only one who has gone to the dentist. 4,500-year-old bones were found in Mexico which contained dentures made from jaguar or wolf fangs. George Washington hated his ivory dentures?he would have... continued
Speaking the Language of the Birds
June 16, 2006South America's Aymara Indians of Bolivia, Peru and Chile, have a reverse concept of time: for them, the past is ahead and the future behind. A time traveler might think this way. A Jesuit wrote in the early 1600s that... continued
What to Do About an Asteroid
June 15, 2006Computers aren't just used to figure out the present?they can also predict the future. Supercomputers play out various scenarios having to do with global warming?and asteroid impacts. You can be sure that the scenario in Iraq was played out on... continued
When Your Brain is at War
June 15, 2006The old joke about how a woman can't have sex because she has a headache has some truth to it: our brains continually wage war within themselves over which thought?or impulse?will "win" and get our full attention and action. Creative... continued
Emergency!
June 15, 2006We're used to being judged as second-rate among first-world countries, when it comes to health care, but at least we're number one when it comes to universities. But we DO have an emergency, when it comes to our emergency services.... continued
Getting to the Core of Climate Change
June 14, 2006In order to figure out the climate, we've drilled into ice cores. Now we've found another kind of core to look at: sediments from the earth's core that have been found over a thousand feet beneath the Arctic ocean, which... continued
It’s About Time: Birth Control for MEN
June 14, 2006Women are getting tired of being the ones who have to do all the worrying and planning about contraception and are passing the responsibility on to men. Science is leading the way. Researchers are trying to find methods other than... continued
How to be Happy (Continued)
June 14, 2006Good news for those of us who are getting older: we're also becoming happier. Scientists know that people in third-world countries are happier than those in the West. Now they've discovered that old people are happier than young people, even... continued