Everyone should read this book. It should be part of the national curriculum, as it is much more important than Shakespeare.
The Revenge of Gaia
Yes, James Lovelock does have an outlying view of the Earth system we live in, but only by reading these theories that are not mainstream, do we truly appreciate the potential perils [...]
Posted on Friday 22nd June 2007 in Reviews, Science tagged book-review, books, climate change, environmental, Science, with no comments.
A couple of quite amusing anti-creationism posts seen elsewhere…
The “Creationist Periodic Table of the Elements” made just for schools in Kansas, on the Official Richard Dawkins Website, via digg
Textbook Disclaimer Stickers to replace those being stuck on “science” books in schools in the USA, ranging from the original, to rather surreal. Via b3ta.
Posted on Saturday 26th May 2007 in Blog tagged religion, Science, USofA, with no comments.
Hopefully Richard Branson’s $25m climate challenge will do for carbon sequestration what the Ansari X Prize has done for private spaceflight.
Millions of pounds are on offer for the person who comes up with the best way of removing significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Whether we can successfully engineer our way out of [...]
Posted on Sunday 11th February 2007 in Engineering, Science tagged climate change, energy, Engineering, environmental, Science, technology, transport, UK, with no comments.
A sharp silhouette of spaceship Atlantis and the International Space Station, a mere spot against the mottled yellow mass of the Sun. NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day for 21 Sept. is somewhat surreal, and difficult to believe that it is a real photograph.
I’m not sure whether I am most amazed by the fact we [...]
Posted on Sunday 24th September 2006 in Science tagged ISS, Links, Photos, Science, shuttle, Sol, space, with no comments.
A book describing a multitude of seemingly random interconnected ideas, and how these relate to the society we live in. Although Philip Ball uses a lot of mathematical and statistical analyses, it is not a book about maths—rather it is a book about how individuals interact with each other to form a coherent society [...]
Posted on Monday 11th September 2006 in Blog tagged books, mathematics, review, Science, world_politics, with no comments.
