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Scientists agree on climate change. So why doesn't everyone else?
This might be the least surprising finding of the week: Since 1991, roughly 97 percent of all published scientific papers that take a position on the question agree that humans are warming the planet. That stat comes from this extensive new survey led by John Cook and Dana Nuccitelli, who run the Skeptical Science...
washingtonpost.com (1 hour ago)
5 Tech Stocks You Should Have Bought Instead of Facebook
Facebook‘s intensely hyped initial public offering one year ago today was supposed to be a triumphant moment for Silicon Valley and Wall Street. After years of buildup and a valuation that had ballooned to $100 billion, ordinary investors would finally get the chance to own a slice of the hottest tech company on the...
time.com (5 hours ago)
The Future Of Olivia And Fitz, And More Season 3 Scoop
ABC's "Scandal" finale closed the climactic second season with the show's biggest bombshell yet: the mysterious Rowan (Joe Morton), the B613 boss who has been threatening Cyrus (Jeff Perry) and giving Jake (Scott Foley) his orders, is also Olivia Pope's (Kerry Washington) father. Move over, Darth Vader. "When we...
huffingtonpost.com (7 hours ago)
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes – review
Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or...
guardian.co.uk (8 hours ago)
Asteroid nine times larger than the QE2 set to fly past Earth later this month
Luckily, after Earth's near-miss with Asteroid 2012 DA14, this space rock will get no closer than 3.6 million miles - 15 times the distance between our planet and the moon
mirror.co.uk (9 hours ago)
Michael Brune: The Overview Effect
Few of us will ever venture past the 60-mile boundary that separates Earth and outer space. If you do, though, you're likely to experience something known as "the overview effect" -- a cognitive shift in how you perceive our planet. Political boundaries disappear, and our atmosphere, which seemed like a boundless...
huffingtonpost.com (16 hours ago)
What Your Family Can Do To Help The Environment
This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: Last week, the earth hit an environmental milestone that has climate scientists very concerned. One of the things that the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Mauna Loa Observatory is responsible for is measuring the...
huffingtonpost.com (17 hours ago)
YouTube Breakout Ray William Johnson Sells Comedy to FX (Exclusive)
Writers Mike Gagerman and Andrew Waller are penning a scripted vehicle based the "Runaway Planet" host's life.
hollywoodreporter.com (18 hours ago)
The Week In Numbers: Fire In Space, The First Cloned Human Embryo, And More
1,350 light-years: the distance to a “fiery ribbon” stretching across the Orion Nebula, captured recently by a submillimeter-wavelength camera inside Chile’s Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope. The ribbon is actually a glow given off by cold interstellar dust at wavelengths too long for human eyes to see. 4:...
popsci.com (18 hours ago)
The Gorge zip line tours debut this weekend
Valerie Stilwill knew she wanted to do something memorable to celebrate a half-century on the planet. Like a 50th wedding anniversary or class reunion, a 50th birthday is pretty special. A trip to Vegas was a consideration at one time for the Hendersonville resident, but then her focus turned more adventuresome...
blueridgenow.com (20 hours ago)
Dot Earth Blog: The Adirondack Park and Conservation on a Crowding Planet
A populated park as a model for Earth in the Anthropocene.
nytimes.com (22 hours ago)
Mars rover Opportunity breaks space driving distance record
Mars rover Curiosity might be the talk of the town currently, but NASA‘s older Opportunity rover is still kicking it in high gear on the red planet. In fact, Opportunity has now traveled 22.22 miles, breaking a 40-year-old driving distance record of 22.21 miles when Apollo 17 astronauts traversed the Moon on a Lunar...
slashgear.com (23 hours ago)
Pacific Rim; watch the new trailer for Guillermo del Toro's monster movie - video
Watch the full trailer for Pacific Rim, the blockbusting monster movie directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Charlie Hunnam and Idris Elba. Pacific Rim is about the battle for the planet, which is under attack from giant aliens. Humans create enormous robots to take them on, and a fight for survival ensues. •...
guardian.co.uk (23 hours ago)
Review: 'Star Trek Into Darkness'
"Star Trek Into Darkness" opens on a primitive planet, where the natives are restless and a volcano, in mid-eruption, traps First Officer Spock (Zachary Quinto) over a boiling ocean of lava.
cnn.com (1 day ago)
1998 QE2: Massive Asteroid to Make 'Royal' Flyby
A big asteroid will cruise by Earth at the end of the month, making its closest approach to our planet for at least the next two centuries.
discovery.com (1 day ago)
Stoking the disagreement of intelligent design vs. simply chance
The existence of a massive orderly universe, the privileged planet earth, the innumerable types and species of life, the complexity of things such as the human eye, the utterly amazing complexity of the DNA code, and hundreds of other such...
examiner.com (1 day ago)
Written in the Stars: Weekly Horoscopes
Venus in Gemini - variety is the spice of life! The planet of love waltzes with the sign of quicksilver thoughts and messages. Love is fun, sociable, light and animated, with a dash of commitment-phob
themonitor.com (1 day ago)
Bloodthirsty wildlife documentaries lack reality and ethics | Adam Welz
Most people's wild beasts live in the TV. What I mean is that, in my experience, most people are highly unlikely to come eyeball-to-eyeball with a large wild animal in their everyday lives, and much of their knowledge of wildlife comes from a screen. If you're North American or get US-produced satellite TV, you've...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Bill Gates Is The World's Richest Man (Again)
Bill Gates is now officially the world's richest man. Again. According to Bloomberg the Microsoft founder recently dethroned the Mexican telecoms billionaire Carlos Slim as the wealthiest man on the planet. Gates first lost the title to Slim back in 2007. But Gates still owns 436 million shares in Microsoft, and a...
huffingtonpost.com (1 day ago)
No sleep till Ulan Bator!
It looked exactly like a Caramac." Is Tropical's Gary Barber is recalling, with creeping terror, his visit to Mongolian capital Ulan Bator's Black Market, where he encountered a local delicacy: a solid bar of fermented horse milk. "I was tricked into having a bit, and in the middle of the market. I just went phuuut...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Off-World Driving Record Broken After Four Decades
By: Mike Wall Published: 05/16/2013 06:47 PM EDT on SPACE.com NASA's long-lived Opportunity Mars rover is the new American champion of off-planet driving, breaking a distance record set more than 40 years ago by an Apollo moon buggy. The six-wheeled Opportunity rover drove 263 feet (80 meters) on Wednesday (May...
huffingtonpost.com (1 day ago)
Q&A: Simon Pegg on Star Trek Into Darkness, Life on Other Planets and Ugly Shirts of the Future
In the Trek universe, it’s usually Spock and Kirk who get top billing. But it Simon Pegg’s Scotty-the starship engineer of “Beam me up!” fame-who truly breaks out in Star Trek Into Darkness (out May 16). Here, the 43-year-old actor, who’s also in Shaun of the Dead threequel The World’s End (out Aug. 23), talks with...
time.com (1 day ago)
Space can still inspire artists and scientists
Having a tweeting, guitar-playing photographer in orbit for the past five months has been a revelation: thanks to Commander Chris Hadfield, space travel is no longer just the domain of the robotic astronaut who speaks with calm detachment. Hadfield even shared a joke with William Shatner, his fellow countryman and...
standard.co.uk (1 day ago)
Traveler's guide to eating insects
Chowing down on some of these not only makes you look like an intrepid tourist, it may just help save the planet.
cnn.com (1 day ago)
U.S. tops in extreme weather
North America - and the USA in particular - has the world's wildest weather extremes: No other part of the planet can boast its ferocious weather...
news-press.com (1 day ago)
The Friday Flyer
In 1987, 20-year-old Christian Schiester weighed 15st 10lb and smoked 40 cigarettes a day. But the Austrian turned his back on that life and within two years had completed the New York Marathon in 3hrs 3min, before going on to win a series of half-marathon titles. In 2003, he finished 12th in the six-day Marathon...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Charlie Parsons buys stake in Gaydar
Charlie Parsons, the creator of shows including Survivor and The Big Breakfast, has backed a buyout of the dating business of the now-defunct Gaydar Radio operation. As part of the deal, Henry Badenhorst, majority-owner of the Gaydar business he co-founded with fellow South African Gary Frisch, is to leave the...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Forward the Foundation! by Isaac Asimov- review
The second in Isaac Asimov's epic Foundation series, Forward the Foundation! was, in fact, written last. Completed only weeks before Asimov's death, I think it is interesting that not only did Asimov die weeks after writing about Hari Seldon's death, he died at the same age as Seldon (that is seventy-two)! Asimov...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
A traveler's guide to eating insects
Chowing down on some of these not only makes you look like an intrepid tourist, it may just help save the planet.
cnn.com (1 day ago)
Hans Rosling: the man who's making data cool | Claire Provost
He's been called the Jedi master of data visualisation, dubbed a statistics guru and introduced as the man in whose hands data sings. When it comes to celebrity statisticians, Hans Rosling is firmly on the A-list. In the years since his first TED talk (Stats that reshape your worldview), which thrust him into the...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
