HOW YOU CAN SAVE THE WORLD ARCHIVE FOR July 2008
I write this as I return to our SCI FI offices at 30 Rock in NYC from a getaway vacation in Indonesia. For those of you unfamiliar with Indonesia, it is an archipelago of over 17,000 islands with a...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
Industrial and scientific development in the void of space that surrounds our delicate planet is a key to ensuring our ability to carry on living on Earth at all over the next century. Satellites circling the planet already deliver...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
I wrote the following as part of an oped directed at the media industry. My profound belief is that we need to give people sense of vision and possibility. They no longer can imagine what a better future might...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
In this year’s Presidential campaign, we have seen little debate between candidates about science, even with an unprecedented movement to encourage them to debate. The science community is not of one mind about the wisdom of such a debate...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
When trying to save the world, it helps to put things into a larger perspective by thinking about civilizations that may have already confronted these problems. In particular, astrophysicists, when we try to find evidence for life in outer...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
Recently, MIT announced the launch of an interdisciplinary, faculty-led study of the future of solar energy. The study will focus on four key solar technologies: photovoltaics, solar heating and cooling, solar thermal power, and production of fuels from the...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
After the brilliant landing of the Phoenix on Mars, how can we not open this series of discussion postings other than with thoughts about exploring the Red Planet?! First, some thoughts on exploration itself… Exploration is expanding human experience,...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
On a recent trip to hunt up something for dinner, I popped into a food store that recently opened in my neighborhood. It's one of those new mega markets, about the size of an airplane hangar, that's designed to...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
The current system of education in the U.S. and most of the industrialized countries revolves around a factory mentality that was designed to serve the industrial era. Just as the assembly line worked for producing goods, it was thought...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
In the vast figurative plain of self-imposed reprehensibility, I am guilty of the inexcusable folly of being a practicing Albuquerque-ian prairie dog watcher. How is it that I have in such short time managed to implicate myself in this...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
