TOP 100 CAMPING SITES
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| Spicy Dip, Served Alfresco The rhythm that pulsates through any number of musical styles from hip-hop to club pop, animates zouk, a dance that originated in the French West Indies and recently found its way to Central Park. nytimes.com |
Will E.T. Look Like Us? What are the odds that intelligent, technically advanced aliens would look anything like the ones in films, with an emaciated torso and limbs, spindly fingers and a bulbous, bald head with large, almond-shaped eyes? What are the odds that they would even be humanoid? In a YouTube video, produced by Josh Timonen of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, I argue that the chances are close to zero ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKAXrmkx12g ). Richard Dawkins himself made this interesting observation in a private communication after viewing it: I would agree with [Shermer] in betting against aliens being bipedal primates, and I think the point is worth making, but I think he greatly overestimates the odds against. [University of Cambridge paleontologist] Simon Conway Morris, whose authority is not to be dismissed, thinks it positively likely that aliens would be, in effect, bipedal primates. [Harvard University biologist] Ed Wilson gave at least some time to the speculation that, if it had not been for the end-Cretaceous catastrophe, dinosaurs might have produced something like the attached [referring to paleontologist Dale A. Russell’s illustrated evolutionary projection of how a bipedal dinosaur might have evolved into a reptilian humanoid]. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Farming Fuel in Middle Eastern Salt Marshes A new biofuels project at Abu Dhabi's Masdar Institute of Science and Technology will unite Boeing , Honeywell and others in search of a system to produce fuel and other useful products from biomass and seawater.The Sustainable Bioenergy Research Project is focused on integrating aquaculture and farming to create a closed-loop system that thrives in areas where fresh water is scarce. [More] rss.sciam.com |
What Causes the North Atlantic Plankton Bloom? Six days from now, every one of the billions of phytoplankton alive today will be dead--eaten by zooplankton or having drifted to the bottom of the sea . In fact, some of these microscopic plants, which collectively perform as much as photosynthesis as all of Earth's land-based plants, live for just two days. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Making a Market for Pollution NEW YORK--When convincing someone to trade in a commodity that cannot be seen or touched, it's best to hold their hand--even if only by telephone. Standing while talking helps, too, at least for broker Lenny Hochschild, who specializes in convincing everyone from agribusiness to electric utilities to buy and sell in a market that doesn't exist yet--a U.S. market for the right to emit carbon dioxide, the most ubiquitous greenhouse gas changing the global climate.This is possibly the newest market in the world, a would-be global attempt to create a trade in the greenhouse gas emissions from any nation's fleet of cars, household refrigerators, electric power plants, factories, even farms. It's an attempt to peel back the smothering blanket of global warming by giving people a financial incentive to reduce emissions under an economic concept known as cap and trade. [More] Emissions trading - Greenhouse gas - United States - Global warming - Environment rss.sciam.com |