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Environmental Groups Back In Court To Help Fellow Rich White People

The Usual Suspects of the anti-science movement, Center for Biological Diversity(1), Environmental...

Batteries Are Stuck In The 1990s Because Solid-State Batteries Keep Short-Circuiting

The electric car industry is held back by reliance on conventional energy. Despite spending trillions...

Dogs Have Been 'Man's Best Friend' For 14,000 Years

The bond between humans and dogs is one of the oldest stories in anthropology. It may also be a...

Is This The D'Artagnan Made Famous In 'The Three Musketeers' By Dumas?

“I have lost D’Artagnan, in whom I had every confidence,” wrote King Louis XIV to his Queen...

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Aquamation: Even Greener Than Cremation?

Oct 25 2010 | comment(s)

If you're like me, not only do you want to be buried, you want to be buried with your treasure in a vast underground labyrinth dug from the stone, behind a series of traps and secret doors, and your treasure will be in the very last room with my undead Lich guarding it.

Want your inheritance, descendants? Bring a sword.

Lich

But other people have long been more environmentally responsible and made the 'ashes to ashes, dust to dust' route a little more direct than a decomposing coffin much less a concrete, subterranean bunker. They get cremated.

How I spent my weekend ...

Oct 25 2010 | comment(s)

A few days back, it being the Halloween season (at least in America - do other cultures indulge in pagan madness of this sort?) I saw, on some social network or another, a neat carved pumpkin that looked like, I kid you not, R2-D2 from "Star Wars."

It looked quite neat and I have never been a pumpkin carving guy, outside the stuff I do with the kids, but it seemed like a fun idea and a way to do something with the kids.

RecycleMatch - Match.com, except for garbage

Oct 23 2010 | comment(s)

The worst thing government has done is get into the recycling business but even worse than that is over-doing it. Where I live, the local government recently started 'separating' garbage, declared more things recyclable, then made the recycling collectible only every two weeks. Result: Government employees are getting paid to come by and empty garbage containers that are 20% full and the recycling one is stuffed after 10 days. Meanwhile, the delay in recycling is so huge it is basically a landfill anyway.

HR 7162 - Astrometry Win Could Force A Rethink Of Gas Giant Planet Formation

Oct 23 2010 | comment(s)

49 light years away from Earth in the constellation Lyra is a binary star that may cause a rethink on how gas giant planets were created.

USA Science & Engineering Festival's Grand Finale Expo This Weekend

Oct 22 2010 | comment(s)

If you are in the Washington, D.C. and only have 48 hours to kill, I have bad news - the USA Science&Engineering Festival has likely packed an entire month of good stuff into this weekend, so you will need Solomon-like wisdom to choose what you want to see.

Larry Bock, head visionary of the event, is a master of logistics, planning and science enthusiasm and we've gushed over his achievements before - but just being able to get an event on the National Mall is more work than most of us would do and adding 1500 activities and 75 stage shows is downright amazing.