Unless you are a hippie growing organic, vegetarian, free-range chickens in Oregon, you probably recognize that nature is out to kill you. But nothing is out to kill you like nature in Australia.But Aussies can find a positive in anything and baby spiders that build streamers of silk which they use to surf the winds as high as 3 kilometers off the ground and then cover buildings and fields get...
read moreLike with emissions-free, white-collar astronomy jobs, it seems strange that anyone would protest emissions-free alternative energy, but in the United States it faces an uphill battle. On one side environmental groups lobby for it, while on the other, different environmentalists wait to file lawsuits and if they aren't paid off quickly, it could take years to resolve in court. read...
read moreThe food industry is one of the few businesses that haven't been mired in oppressive regulations and government micromanagement - at least outside San Francisco and New York City - but a new set of regulations are trying to change that as well.Despite any evidence that it will do any good, the Obama administration is expected to all but ban trans fat in a final ruling as soon as next week, even...
read moreBecause everyone knows that the best part of waking up is staying in sweatpants all day and eating cereal while watching Warner Herzog documentaries, the chilled out folks on the West Coast are pairing your morning cup of joe with marijuana to start the day. Yahoo! Finance reports that a Seattle pot shop is selling pods of “premium infused coffee” for $10 a pop. Each pod contains 10 mg of THC...
read moreJoe’s Big Idea on NPR. hosted by Joe Palca, had an interview with Caltech astrophysicist Shrinivas Kulkarni who, at one point, said “Many scientists are I think, secretly, are what I call ‘boys with toys.’”Palca repeated that for him, “Boys with toys.”“And I think there’s nothing wrong with that, except...," Kulkarni went on.“Boys with toys,” Palca said...
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