Darwin wasn’t the only one taking notes on his famed Beagle expedition. Shipmate Conrad Darwin was also recording the journey, and the resulting pencil drawings, notes and watercolors
China’s deep sea manned submersible Jiaolong carried out the first dive on a mission to study active hydrothermal vent in the southwestern Indian Ocean on Jan. 2 to
Here we go again – another shipwreck “discovery” is picked up uncritically by the national media. http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2014/12/26/20911751/ You can read about the Le Griffon on Wikipedia, but here’s
Just went through a Hard Reset. Like when a computer starts acting wonky–you unplug it, stick it in a corner, maybe kick it a few times before plugging
I’m going to try to coin a term. I’m calling it “The Nolan Paradox,” after Christopher Nolan’s beautifully imperfect film “Interstellar.” “The Nolan Paradox” is as follows: the
I sold my motorcycle a few days ago. That’s a bit misleading. I sold what was left of my motorcycle… her heart had been disassembled, her broken engine
From misinformed politicians who should ‘shut up’, to a failure of large parts of society to grasp reality, climate scientists reveal their bugbears http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/jun/26/what-really-annoys-scientists-about-the-state-of-the-climate-change-debate The whole article is
Easily one of the most important lectures I’ve ever seen. We know the solutions already – but we’re not willing to consider actually implementing them.
