The Nuclear Button U.S. Presidents Can Push at Will – Bloomberg
The Nuclear Button U.S. Presidents Can Push at Will – Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/ As President Barack Obama counts down his last months in office, he has returned to one of his earliest and most ambitious promises, one he fully articulated in Prague in 2009: “I state clearly and with conviction America’s commitment to seek the peace and […] more…
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins – Scientific American
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins – Scientific American http://www.scientificamerican.com/store/books/what-a-fish-knows-the-inner-lives-of-our-underwater-cousins/ An underwater exploration that overturns myths about fishes and reveals their complex lives, from tool use to social behavior There are more than thirty thousand species of fish—more than all mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians combined. But for all their […] more…
Drought Due to Climate Change is Threatening Nearly All Forests in the United States : Nature & Environment : Science World Report
Drought Due to Climate Change is Threatening Nearly All Forests in the United States : Nature & Environment : Science World Report http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/37595/20160223/drought-due-climate-change-threatening-nearly-forests-united-states.htm Drought Due to Climate Change is Threatening Nearly All Forests in the United States Nature & Environment Catherine Griffin First Posted: Feb 23, 2016 08:11 AM EST Ian McCullough, Univ. of California […] more…
Staggering Four Billion People May be Facing Water Scarcity : Nature & Environment : Science World Report
Staggering Four Billion People May be Facing Water Scarcity : Nature & Environment : Science World Report http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/37226/20160215/staggering-four-billion-people-facing-water-scarcity.htm Nature & Environment Catherine Griffin First Posted: Feb 15, 2016 08:36 AM EST Flickr A staggering four billion people may be facing water scarcity. A new study shows that two out of every three people on our […] more…
Israel: It’s Far Too Late for a Two-State Solution
Israel: It’s Far Too Late for a Two-State Solution http://www.newsweek.com/israel-its-far-too-late-two-state-solution-413462 This article first appeared on The Conversation. Many obstacles stand in the way of a two-state solution to the conflict in Israel and Palestine. At the moment, negotiations are a nonstarter for all parties. Try Newsweek for only $1.25 per week Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […] more…
Obama’s skin looks a little different in these GOP campaign ads – The Washington Post
Obama’s skin looks a little different in these GOP campaign ads – The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/29/obamas-skin-looks-a-little-different-in-these-gop-campaign-ads/ This still image is taken from a television advertisement aired by John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2008 connecting Barack Obama with Bill Ayers. (Courtesy of Solomon Messing of the Pew Research Center/John McCain for President) A new study shows […] more…
Malcolm Gladwell: the Snapchat problem, the Facebook problem, the Airbnb problem | VentureBeat | Marketing | by John Koetsier
Malcolm Gladwell: the Snapchat problem, the Facebook problem, the Airbnb problem | VentureBeat | Marketing | by John Koetsier http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/24/gladwell-on-data-marketing-the-snapchat-problem-the-facebook-problem-the-airbnb-problem/ Last night futurist, journalist, prognosticator, and author Malcolm Gladwell told pretty much the most data-driven marketing technologist crowd imaginable that data is not their salvation. In fact, it could be their curse. “More data increases […] more…
Climate Seer James Hansen Issues His Direst Forecast Yet – The Daily Beast
Climate Seer James Hansen Issues His Direst Forecast Yet – The Daily Beast http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/20/climate-seer-james-hansen-issues-his-direst-forecast-yet.html?utm_content=buffer1b0f4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer James Hansen, the former NASA scientist whose congressional testimony put global warming on the world’s agenda a quarter-century ago, is now warning that humanity could confront “sea level rise of several meters” before the end of the century unless greenhouse gas […] more…
Ocean ‘weather balloons’ detect cause of global warming pause – LA Times
Ocean ‘weather balloons’ detect cause of global warming pause – LA Times http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-global-warming-hiatus-20150710-story.html Sea temperature data, some collected by a fleet of drifting and diving probes, shows that a decade-long slowdown in global surface warming masked a coincident rise in ocean temperature below 300 feet, according to NASA JPL researchers. That finding, which was published recently in the journal Science, is the […] more…
After Thousands of Years, Earth’s Frozen Life Forms Are Waking Up
After Thousands of Years, Earth’s Frozen Life Forms Are Waking Up http://gizmodo.com/after-thousands-of-years-earths-frozen-life-forms-are-1686782409?amp& After Thousands of Years, Earth’s Frozen Life Forms Are Waking Up What’s happening in Siberia’s thawing permafrost and Greenland’s melting glaciers sounds borderline supernatural. Ancient viruses, bacteria, plants, and even animals have been cryogenically frozen there for millennia—and now, they are waking up. […] more…
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