Patrick James
I don't exactly know what to say about xkcd's illustration of our planets' and moons' gravity wells, other than that it's completely awesome-and a handy tool for understanding astronomical forces. Did you know that you could throw a baseball hard enough to exit the gravitational pull of the moon Phobos? Now you do.
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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Companies Value Internships, So Why Don't They Hire Interns?
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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Infographic: Understanding Social Enterprise
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Is it Time to 'Occupy Teach For America'?
There are more than 3,000 satellites orbiting earth. While we go about our daily lives, these contraptions are hard at work in our...
Sigh. Apparently there's still some confusion about whether the planet is getting warmer or cooler. Now only 57 percent of Americans believe there...
The Biosphere 2, a closed environment built in the late 1980s in Arizona to study how humans and ecosystems worked together, was beset by all...
Algae-based fuel is a massive leap from corn ethanol, and could already be working within our existing transportation infrastructure-if only its...
In an effort to study and evaluate environmental changes around the world, the Central Intelligence Agency is granting environmental scientists...
Two big paper companies are pushing to bring fast-growing genetically-modified Australian Eucalyptus trees to the southeastern United States. The...
There is a five-story, blood-red waterfall pouring slowly from the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valley. Its back story, at Atlas...
Forty years ago, around the time of the first Earth day, just before sweeping regulations like the Clean Air Act of 1970 took effect, a number of...
While it may not have the flight capabilities of the Magic School Bus-or the eccentric, red-haired Ms. Frizzle at the helm-Ben Dubin-Thaler's...
The Bloom Box-a fuel cell hyped as being able to deliver cheap, emissions-free energy-debuted last week to much fanfare. But the report we...
So everything we thought we knew from the IPCC's (Nobel Prize winning!) Fourth Assessment Report of climate science? Well, it's all worse. This...
Critics of the practice of teaching evolution in science classrooms are taking up a new strategy: going after the teaching of global...
Virgin Galactic has unveiled pictures of SpaceShipTwo, the "world's first commercial manned spacecraft." Flights will be departing from New...
Healthy Competition The X Prize Foundation, which creates competitions to encourage technological development, already succeeded in inspiring...
What happens when you put five astronauts in a small ship for 500 days and fly them to Mars? This is the fourth part in an eight-part series on...
NASA Images is making 50 years worth of media in its archive available to the public and launching a "Guest Showcase" series of online exhibitions...
Nanotechnology and exponential manufacturing could help us make whatever humanity needs, atom by atom. Part three in a GOOD miniseries on the...
Today's Times has a great article on the biology of sarcasm by Dan Hurley. Spoiler warning: there is some sarcasm written into the...
The Nobel Prize for medicine was announced today, marking the beginning of another exciting Nobel week, with prizes given out every day from now...
According to new research from psychologists at Florida State University, praying works. Not at getting God to do stuff (that's hard to test) but...
