The website Here is Today attempts to provide some perspective on time by giving a visual idea of how much time has passed since various important milestones (biological, geological, centuries, millennia, etc).
http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/need-some-perspective-time-here-today.html
That might work in a small greenhouse or in a lab, but on a whole planet you’ll run into the fact that the ecosphere is incredibly complex. That extra CO2 means a lot of extra heat, and that will have all sorts of ramifications.
Sure, growing pineapples in Toronto might be fun, but what do you think will happen in Kansas when the summer heat gets cranked up to broil, and changing weather patterns dry up all the rain for a few months at a time?
"— Phil Plait at Slate calls The Wall Street Journal’s defense of CO2 is ‘monumentally naive’
This performance of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” by International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield has been seen and shared by everyone and their mother — seriously, your mom has probably already written about this on Facebook — but it is too wonderful to not share again.
via Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield’s David Bowie cover is an important moment for science
That the viral response to the music video has created a moment where it is seen as advantageous for editors to program more space-related content (including a post like this, I know) is precisely the goal of using media in the ways Hadfield has. He and his team have brought the world a view of space we have never seen in a way we have never seen. With the myriad issues we face in which science plays a role in solving, we need more people to appreciate and admire science and scientists of all types, so making the subject fun and accessible in space is a great way to do it.
Lastly, as Bonnie Malkin at The Telegraph notes “Hadfield will never need to buy a drink on Earth again,” so he’s also got that going for him, which is nice.
Flying across America, from San Francisco to New York City, in a solar plane. Awesome!
http://www.treehugger.com/aviation/solar-impulse-flying-san-francisco-new-york-city-solar-plane.html
This concentrates thousands of suns into tiny super-high-efficiency solar cells, while costing 3x less than comparable systems. Very cool.
http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/ibm-solar-collector-magnifies-sun-2000x-without-cooking-itself.html
Fellow Travelers - Our Microbiome Illustrated
A little art to go with the latest episode of the YouTube show.
The human microbiome (and microbiomes in general) may just be my favorite subject in biology. This intricate, and in many ways still-mysterious, microbial ecosystem that each of us carry in and on our bodies affects so much of our life! Are we humans, or super-organisms? And to think that we have been completely ignorant of it for so long…
Here’s some of my favorite impressions of human microbiome science as captured through the eyes of artists. Links for each: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Meanwhile: Resistance to antibiotics now kills more people than AIDS
credit: Thierry Cohen, courtesy of Danziger Gallery
This is an amazing base that just opened in Antarctica. It crawls to keep it from freezing to the ice! Lots more cool details inside. Amazing Green Modular Halley VI Crawling Antarctic Base Opens
Why should those of us in favor of addressing climate change - climate hawks, environmentalists, scientists, 80% of the public - be responsible for convincing others that the world needs saving?
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