The Salar de Uyuni in western Bolivia is the world’s largest salt flats, measuring over 4,000 square miles. In prehistoric times, though recently geologically, the area was an inland lake called called Lake Minchin and as it dried, if left two lakes with two salt flats between them, Salar de Uyuni and the Salar de Coipasa. Now, workers mine about 25,000 tons of salt per year from the area...
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Old school parenting. Today we tell kids about the thermodynamic properties of the birthday candle before it is time to blow it out.
read moreGreater virtual realism is always shown in television shows like "Star Trek: The Next Generation" as people who act out an alternate life as a farmer or solve mysteries in the 1800s, and that may happen, but long before that any technology like that will be used by young people to shoot each other.read...
read moreI don't watch reality performance shows because the few I have seen in America are rather predictable, people dancing or doing weird stuff and whatnot.But today, via Google Plus, I got a chance to see Kseniya Simonova do sand art and animation on "Ukraine's Got Talent". The story she tells, in real time, using nothing but sand as her medium and then animating it...it's too ridiculously...
read moreA recent NY Times article echoes what I said last week in a meeting about a Science 2.0 television pilot - incredibly literate people who know a lot about science can't name a scientist.It's certainly true. Adult science literacy has tripled since I was an adult, science scores have gone up for American kids every year for the last decade and the American science audience alone is 65...
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