Microscopic spinning orbs and spirals of green goo are the answers to our planet's energy crisis and arable land shortage. At least that's what Aaron Baum, a 40-year-old Harvard graduate and Stanford PhD, has concluded. Read more »
A truly awesome idea, from Harvard postdoctoral fellow Samuel Arbestman:
Urban transit maps are wonderful tools: they are guides to traveling, they serve as mechanisms for distilling and abstracting a city down to a set of linkages a. Read more »
A little followup to--and perfect illustration of--my post about the LCROSS moon mission: National Geographic recently published a truly fantastic map of 50 years of space exploration, from early failed missions to the current New Horizons probe. Read more »
When I was sixteen years old, I saw the space shuttle Challenger explode. I had cut class, and I was in the process of sneaking back onto my beach-side high-school campus when I heard a soft boom. Read more »
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