The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Rogue planets are rambling through galaxy Nomad aliens crowding the Milky Way may shake up our theories of planet formation Our Milky Way galaxy may be teeming with rogue planets that ramble through space instead of being locked in orbit around a star, a new study suggests. These “ nomad planets ” could be surprisingly …
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Koko sign: Sad. As seniors climb from poverty, young fall in By Marisol Bello USA TODAY, 15 February 2012 EXTRACT: Nationally, official Census numbers show 9% of seniors in poverty. Among children, 22% — 15.6 million — live in poverty. . . . . . . . A 2011 analysis by the Urban Institute, a …
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Koko Sign: Transparency good. Scary science, national security, and open-source research Maggie Koerth-Baker BoingBoing, 13 January 2012 I’ve been following the story about the scientists who have been working to figure out how H5N1 bird flu might become transmissible from human to human, the controversial research they used to study that question, and the federal …
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Koko Sign: Koko sad. INFORM’s Secret Life series is truly the gift that keeps on giving. Every week, more people watch our short, lively films and learn how important making the RIGHT choices in their daily lives is to protecting our planet. Take plastic bags: here in New York City, we are offered them several …
Koko Sign: Gorillas better forecasters than computers. Crowdsourcing Snowstorm’s Westward Model Shift AccuWeather.com, Dec 7, 2011 I was surprised to see this HRRR forecast model prediction of tonight’s Northeast snow showing no snow for Harrisburg and York, PA, and showing the axis of heaviest snow (4-8″) over or west of State College, PA. This disagreed …
Potentially Earth-Like Planet Has Right Temperature for Life Govert Schilling, ScienceNow WIRED, 5 december 2011 For the first time, astronomers have found a planet smack in the middle of the habitable zone of its sunlike star, where temperatures are good for life. “If this planet has a surface, it would have a very nice temperature …
Koko Sign: Like diversity. Mammoth find raises hopes of successful cloning Emma Woollacott TG Daily, December 5, 2011 A Japanese team which has been hoping to clone a mammoth says that a specimen discovered this summer looks likely to yield up the necessary DNA. The team, from Japan’s Kinki University and the Sakha Republic’s mammoth …
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