12 Degrees of Freedom

When China announced that it was entering the offshore wind energy arena and set some ambitious goals, it was assumed by many that they woul...

Ahh.. remember the good old days when the price of milk was determined, in part, by the distance you were from Eau Claire, Wisconsin ? Some...

When I was in junior high school I belonged to a group of 'amateur variable star observers'. Our charge was to help astronomers det...

Economic crises have a way of getting people to focus on things that really matter. The challenge is making the awareness stick once we...

Einstein's discovery that the speed of light is an eternal, universal Truth is supported by mathematics, experimental confirmation, imag...

In their fascinating book entitled "Microcosmos" Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan remind us four billion years of evolution has crea...

Bucky's vision of a world-around grid continues to gestate and seems to be just about ready to emerge from its womb... (GW) Japanese gro...

Growing up in Cleveland Ohio, most of the families in our neighborhood had gardens. My grandmother had one. She also had apple and peach tr...

In fact, nothing taught in school is "culture-free". I am reminded of this every time I recall how I was taught history -- all bu...

There's overwhelming evidence that the high pressure injection of wastewater critical to the fracking process actually triggered earthqu...