Bob CollinsThe Weather Channel came out firing today after Breitbart used a video of one of its meteorologists to claim that the earth is cooling. Read more →
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Facebook and Twitter increasingly are the new venue for audience feedback, so while the online audience continues to have a voice, the reality is that fewer people in the news business side of things are listening. Read more →
If you’re like a lot of people on planet Earth this week, you’ve spent a lot of time looking at the moon, which is closer to Earth this week than the last time it was this close to Earth. Read more →
There are two amazing takeaways from this NOAA video of a “hurricane hunter” airplane flying into Hurricane Matthew. Read more →
Apollo 8 wasn’t a moon-landing mission; it was a test of whether the spacecraft could get there. So Frank Borman never got a chance to do what only 12 humans have ever done: walk on the moon.
Here’s the thing. He didn’t want to. Read more →
A new study, examining two dozen previous reports, finds that 90 percent of the household dust examined contained 10 toxic chemicals. Read more →
Nobody was hurt when a SpaceX rocket exploded at Cape Canaveral today, so we are officially placing the video in our ‘when disasters are beautiful’ category. Read more →
Minneapolis Community Education wasn’t lying on the front cover of its fall adult enrichment classes brochure; it definitely offered something ‘different.’ Read more →
If you watched the coverage of the Olympics last night, you got a look at the first trailer for the movie Hidden Figures, which, unfortunately, doesn’t come out until January. Read more →
If drivers would simply behave differently, the main cause of traffic jams could be eliminated. Read more →
We are now about a year away from a total solar eclipse in North America, the first one on American soil since 1991. You’ll have to drive south to experience it, however.
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It’s almost as if the original coders knew that someday we’d be looking at their work from tiny computers held in our hands, computers with the power that would have filled several rooms back in the day.
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What if blind people could see again?
A group of scientists announced in an article in a science journal they’ve been able to restore sight to blind mice. Read more →
Future alien archaeologists who discover Earth and try to figure out the civilization that once roamed it will have a thankless job.
How can you explain the civilization, based only on the just-completed 24 hours let alone centuries of existence.
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Self-driving cars are safer than those driven by humans. But they can never be made risk free. It’s like casual sex, Maggie Koerth-Baker says. Accidents happen. Read more →