TOP 100 CAMPING SITES
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| Chasing the storm chasers: On the way to meet the VORTEX2 team Editor’s note: For the next three days, Scientific American contributing editor Christie Nicholson will be traveling with nearly 80 scientists conducting the largest tornado study ever completed. Check out her progress and learn about twisters on SciAm’s Twitter feed. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Buying Green: 9 Eco-Conscious Accessories [More] rss.sciam.com |
This "Green" Home: Simple Cheap Improvements to Your House Dear EarthTalk: What are some simple low cost improvements I can do to my home to make it greener? -- Stefan Lonce, via email [More] rss.sciam.com |
U.S. Lags Behind World with Its Patchwork Approach to Curbing E-Waste Lurking behind the introduction of each new touch-screen computer, high-definition television and digital music player is the stark reality that some once-prized electronic gadgets from a previous techno-generation will get kicked to the curb, ending up in a toxic trash heap thousands of miles from its former owner. The reasons for this digital dumping are many, including ignorance of recycling options and indifference to the environmental impact. The remedy is straightforward--stricter governmental oversight, by the U.S. federal government in particular, of what goes into making these devices and how and where they are discarded, a team of University of California researchers posit in a study to be published Friday in Science . [More] rss.sciam.com |
Calendar: MIND events in January and February JANUARY 8 Most Holocaust survivors spend their lives trying to forget the horrors of the era, but neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel , who fled Austria in 1939 to escape the Nazis, went on to investigate how we remember. His groundbreaking research led to a new understanding of how memories are formed, eventually winning Kandel the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work. Now German filmmaker Petra Seeger has profiled Kandel’s life in an eloquent film called In Search of Memory . [More] rss.sciam.com |