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Pope Francis, Jimmy Carter and the "Greatest Threat to Peace"
On this blog, I often bemoan the lack of influential figures challenging U.S. militarism. (See my last post on the Pentagon and Silicon Valley .) Many people around the world view the U.S. as “the greatest threat to peace,” as a recent poll put it , and with good reason. […]Keep reading »Rosetta Stones
Live-Blogging Richard Waitt's In the Path of Destruction III: Eve of Destruction
In our last edition of ITPOD live-blogging , we watched the north flank of Mount St. Helens bulge ominously. In this edition, we'll watch people try very hard to go about their business despite the signs that the volcano isn't going to go quietly back to sleep. […]Keep reading »SA Expeditions
The "Black Piranha" of Ascension Island
Editor's note: There’s a fascinating natural experiment happening around Ascension Island. While the number of fish here is astounding, surprisingly few species have been hardy enough and lucky enough to make the long journey and settle here successfully. […]Keep reading »SA Guest Blog
Missing the Soil for the Seeds in Cancer Research
While we generally consider soil as the dirt on which we walk and that we use to grow our plants, it also serves as a useful analogy for cancer. One of the most dreaded maladies of our time is like a seed, and it can only take root if we provide the right kind of tissue in which it can nest. […]Keep reading »SA Anecdotes from the Archive
Bigger Guns, 1915
Reported in Scientific American , this Week in World War I: September 18, 1915 The cover of this week’s issue of the magazine shows the interior of one of the forts surrounding the fortified town of Przemyśl, now in Poland, but in 1915 in the Galician province of the Austria-Hungarian empire. […]Keep reading »Plugged In
Turning Utility into Texas-Size Solar Art
Why have a traditional rectangular solar array when you could turn it into a Texas-sized work of solar art? At the Alamo Beer Company’s new brewery and biergarten in San Antonio lies a tribute to the city’s iconic Alamo made of solar panels. […]Keep reading »Symbiartic
The Complex Net of Human Interference
We are the species that tracks, catalogs, and attempts to conserve the incredible diversity of life we live amongst, and yet our activity on the planet is the single biggest threat to many of these species’ survival. Photographer Todd Forsgren captures the uncomfortable moment when a bird ensnared in an ornithologist's net finds itself face to face with its captor. […]Keep reading »Plugged In
Republican Candidates Acknowledge Climate Change Is Real
CNN advertised last night's GOP presidential primary debate as an event where " sparks will fly ." Like many TV reality shows, candidates already at odds on issues that aren't all that important—like Donald Trump's opinion of Carly Fiorina's face—were pitted against each other at the start. […]Keep reading »Plugged In
California Bill Mandating Half of Electricity Come From Renewables by 2030 Headed to Governor's Desk
Last week, the California State Assembly passed S.B. 350, a provision that would require the state to generate 50 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by the end of 2030. With Assembly approval, the bill’s next stop is Governor Jerry Brown’s desk, where he is expected to sign it into law later this month. […]Keep reading »The Artful Amoeba
Aquarium Corals of Anchorage Poison 10 1/2 Humans, Two Dogs, and One Cat
On August 12, 2014, a man arrived at a hospital in Anchorage, Alaska, with peculiar symptoms and an even stranger story. He was suffering from fever, cough, nausea, pain, and a bitter metallic taste in his mouth, but he already had an idea of who the culprit might be, and it was a doozy: a zoanthid coral. […]Keep reading »
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