War in Ukraine: Chernobyl Update
March 12 2022 UPDATE Thirty-five years ago the world’s worst nuclear crisis occurred at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear facility. Today Chernobyl is back in Russian hands ! Russia’s incursion into the […]
Category Archives: Science
Books: What’s Real, What’s Not from 2019
Long before the pandemic of 2020 gripped over 120 countries – our Spring 2019 books selection looked at works that explore what is real, what is imagined, what is knowable. […]
Books: Emotions, Memory, Minimalism in the Digital Age
Recent classics and new books look at the human condition– how we think, feel, remember and respond to people and powerful external forces. How are human emotions and behaviors being […]
Editor’s Note: Our Spring Lineup
Stories coming your way: A boatload of new and recent books, ridding ourselves of our plastic addiction, and lighter, more environmentally friendly ways to travel. And in April, we’ll celebrate […]
Coming Up: Earth Day Tributes 2019
For Earth Week 2019 we will feature one “hero” each day, although we’ve found many more heroes than there are days in a week. Here’s who you will learn about: […]
Books Spring 2019
The Spring 2019 books we are recommending ask us — what is real, what is imagined, what is knowable? Is our own experience shared by others, or does it only […]
Solar Eclipse Aug 21 2017
It’s showtime! The sun and moon are putting on a spectacle today with an audience of hundreds of millions live viewers – and millions more online and watching the solar […]
Paris Climate Agreement – Read and Weep
U.S. pulls out of the Paris Climate Agreement two days after causing a kerfuffle (a real word!) with the invented word covfefe. Here’s what Pulitzer-Prize-winning New Yorker contributor Elizabeth Kolbert has to […]
My Earth Hero: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Listen Up!
One of the world’s smartest and most popular scientists — check him out (below) on Twitter — Neil DeGrasse Tyson has issued a four-minute video to Americans about the future […]
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