This is so cool: IBM researchers on Tuesday said they have discovered a way to make Earth-friendly plastic from plants that could replace petroleum-based products tough on the environment. The breakthrough promises biodegradable plastics made in a way that saves on energy, according to Chandrasekhar “Spike” Narayan, a manager of science and technology at IBM’s […]
They just got a little shorter thanks to the Chile earthquake this weekend: The earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile on Feb. 27 probably shifted the Earth’s axis and shortened the day, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist said. Earthquakes can involve shifting hundreds of kilometers of rock by several meters, […]
I’m sure some will point to this as an indicator that we don’t need health care reform: Spending on health care slowed in 2008, according to a government report released Tuesday. In fact, health spending grew more slowly than at any time in at least a half century. [SNIP] “National health spending growth slowed in […]
That has been the constant message from Republicans over the past several days when it comes to the stimulus package. Digby even picked up on it: Can someone explain to me why I’m seeing Republican after Republican on television advising Americans on the right way to run the economy? Is there any reason why we […]
An earthquake leaves thousands dead in China. With all the tornadoes, cyclones and all this other weather news happening right now it makes you wonder if the planet isn’t trying to send us a message.
So Bush is supposed to make a big speech today on climate change. The problem is he still doesn’t want to do anything: Bush will speak forcefully about concerns he has over a possible rush to address the Earth’s warming through a hodgepodge of regulations under existing federal laws such as the Clean Air Act […]
We have the military getting ready to fire 5 missiles at the dead spy satellite in hopes to destroy it, before it falls to earth. So what happens if they shoot these five missiles and miss it? It would be an embarrassing blow to the missile defense system, which has already been met with a […]
Just a week ago we heard that “al Qaeda may be moving outside of Iraq” to operate, something I though rather absurd since it was pretty obvious they always operated outside Iraq. Then yesterday we heard that al Qaeda was in a weakened state. Now we have Chertoff out warning of “earth shattering events” that […]
Here we are more than a week later and guess what the media is still talking about? If you said Hillary’s cleavage then you are right. This whole debate over her cleavage has really shown the sexist side of the media. Perhaps the people in the media (and on the right who go on about […]