Books on Science: Fiddling With a Two-Year Gap in the Busy Life of Copernicus
Dava Sobel has long taken a quirky approach to science history. In “Galileo’s Daughter” (1999), for instance, she focused not on the standard biographical material but on the scientist’s love for his illegitimate daughter, consigned [...]
News in Brief: Life
Birds’ share of dinosaur extinction, the ‘battle’ between cattle and wildlife and more in this week’s news
An extinction to crow about
Ancient birds took a heavy hit in the global catastrophe that wiped out the dinosaurs, [...]
How Asteroid Mining Will Work
If you enjoy science fiction, then you know that the thought of colonizing the moon makes for some incredibly imaginative stories. But there is a good possibility that lunar cities will become a reality during the 21st century! Colonizing [...]
Green Column: Airlines Weigh the Advantages of Using More Biofuel
The world’s airlines will carry 2.8 billion passengers and 46 million tons of freight this year. They will burn somewhere between 210 million and 220 million tons of fuel and generate 650 million tons of carbon emissions in the process.
Strong [...]
State Dept. Assigned Keystone XL Review to Company With Ties to TransCanada
Crews in Michigan last month worked to clean up a July 2010 spill from a pipeline similar to the one that has been proposed.
The State Department assigned an important environmental impact study of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to a [...]
Cosmic Vision:Dark and bright: ESA chooses next two science missions
The powerful influence of the Sun and the nature of the mysterious ‘dark energy’ motivate ESA’s next two science missions. Solar Orbiter and Euclid were selected today by ESA’s Science Programme Committee for implementation, [...]
In Thailand, an Innovative Fight Against Cervical Cancer
Maikaew Panomyai did a little dance coming out of the examination room, switching her hips, waving her fists in the air and crowing, in her limited English: “Everything’s O.K.! Everything’s O.K.!”
Translation: The nurse just told [...]
Small Fixes: Patient Groups Help Share the Burdens of Living With AIDS
Rogerio Bernardo slung a black satchel over his shoulder and waited by the roadside in the morning mist for a bush taxi. In dusty wingtips, frayed pants and a gray pinstripe suit coat so big it swallowed his slender frame, he looked like any [...]
Friedrich Nietzsche composition for piano and violon
Friedrich Nietzsche composition for piano and violonchelo with Pinokio from tokio philosophical video.
To Princess Ariadne, My Beloved.
It is a mere prejudice that I am a human being. Yet I have often enough dwelled among human beings and I [...]
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, the German philosopher and classical philologist
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 August 25, 1900)was a nineteenth-century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive [...]
